iPhone 16e Features, Photo Hacks & Must-Try Android Apps

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Apple's got a new, more affordable iPhone. I'll break down
everything you need to know about the iPhone sixteen E,
what it has and what it doesn't. Looking for a
new job, Google's latest tool could help you find your
next career move. And the one app that'll instantly make
your smartphone photos pop. Trust me, you're gonna want this

(00:23):
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Rich on tech dot TV Hitcomact again rich on tech
dot TV guests. This week, we've got Titanya Jordan. She's

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going to join me to talk about her new book
and keeping kids safe online. Yeah, parents, I know we're
all out of control. She's gonna help rain some of
this stuff in Brandon Butch, tech YouTuber and writer at
the Apple Den will join me to talk all things Apple.
We'll hit on the iPhone sixteen E, some changes over

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in Europe, and all the other things that Apple is
doing this week. Lots of little announcements with them, and
then later on in the show, if Akundo holdsmeister from
how two Men, we'll talk about some of the coolest
hidden Android apps. Get ready to download some great new apps.
He does a great job on YouTube with those well.
Apple has launched the successor to the iPhone SE. It

(01:51):
is called the iPhone sixteen E. Now the E doesn't
officially stand for anything, of course, there's many speculations going
around online about what it might stand for, economical, essential, everything,
whatever else.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You can think of. This starts with E.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
But this is the phone that is replacing the iPhone SE.
It's been over a thousand days since they came out
with that phone, so it was time for an update.
And this is a modern smartphone with pretty much everything
you need at a price that is not so bad
so basic specs. Yes, it has a bigger screen six
point one inches. It's got the A eighteen chip, which

(02:30):
is Apple's latest processor. On the iPhone sixteen, not the Pro.
The Pro has a slightly more elevated chip, but this
is like their latest modern chip. It's got a one
forty eight megapixel camera, so just one camera lens on
this but I'll talk about that in a bit.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
It also has face ID instead of a home button.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I know a lot of people like the se because
they're holding on to that home button. But with this phone,
Apple has officially retired that old technology. Now all of
their phones in the line up to have face ID.
And it's also got USBC instead of lightning, so again
another modern upgrade. Now because it has that latest processor,
there is support for Apple Intelligence. This is their suite

(03:13):
of all of the different you know, writing tools and
the image playground and all that fun stuff that you
can do that I'll be quite honest, I don't use
a ton of it on the iPhone. I have it
on my model, but I don't find myself using it.
I still am pretty much turning to chat GBT when
I need to do things. Now, when it comes to
buttons on this phone, I mentioned there's no home button,

(03:34):
but there isn't action button on the side. So remember
that little slider they used to have the little toggle
switch for ringer and silent. Well that's been replaced on
the later iPhones with what's called an action button. And
the neat thing about this action button is if you
want it to, you know, still function in the same
way as your ring silent switch, you can still do that.
You just press it and hold it and it will

(03:55):
toggle between those two functionalities. But the neat thing is
you can assign it to do a whole bunch of
other things. So you can make it launch the camera,
it can launch the flashlight, it can activate a voice memo.
You can also use it for visual intelligence, so there
is no camera control. The second button that they added
to the new latest iPhones, the iPhone sixteen models, that

(04:16):
is not on this device. But you can still assign
this action button to let you do pretty much whatever
you want. You can make it open up an app.
And this intelligence feature is kind of interesting because this
is kind of Apple's version of Google lens. So if
you activate this visual intelligence, you can aim it at
a bird, it can identify the bird. If you aim
it at a business card, it can add that information

(04:39):
to your contacts. It can identify plants, animals, and much more.
You can also use it to search items. So if
you're looking at something like a address or a couch
you want to buy, someone has something in their house
that you want, you can just search Google for that
product for where to buy it, and of course it
links up with chat GBT if it can't get the
answer through Apple or through Google. This is the first

(05:00):
iPhone to have a modem designed by Apple.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
And this is pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I know, it seems like a small thing because who
cares about the motem inside of a phone? But Qualcomm
typically makes those modems, and so the fact that Apple's
making their own, that's, you know, kind of a big
shift for this because they do sell hundreds of millions
of iPhones every year, and so the fact that that
is moving away from Qualcom not a good thing for

(05:25):
their business, but of course a good thing for Apple
because they can now optimize that modem to do exactly
what they want on these phones. This is called the
C one, and Apple says already they're getting fast and
reliable five G coverage, but also it's making the phone
have better battery life, because if you think about it,
most of these phone makers have to kind of shimmy
into what these chips do. So they get the chip,

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and they get the camera lens, and they get all
this stuff from different manufacturers and then they build the
phone around it. With Apple, when it comes to the
processor and also this now modem, they are designing that
from the ground to work with the phone, so they
can make their software very very specific in how it
does everything, and you get a lot of efficiency and
power and computing efficiency through that. So now when it

(06:12):
comes to the camera, this is a two to one
camera system. So yes, I said, it's just one lens
forty eight megapixels, but because it's so high megapixels, you
can crop into the picture, which means effectively you have
a two x telephoto zoom without any loss of quality.
So we're gonna have to test that out see how
that works in real life. But yes, one lens on
the back, very simple setup, No dedicated zoom lens, no

(06:35):
ultra wide lens, no macro photography, no spatial photography, so
no three D pictures or videos off of this.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
But again, this is a basic phone. You don't need
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Now, when it comes to emergency services, Apple has really
been good in this aspect. Satellite is supported, so you
can do messages over satellite, you can send emergency SOS,
roadside assistance via satellite. You can also update your location
and find my via satellite. Plus it's got crash detection.
So Apple has really led the charge in sort of
these emergency services. Your phone is your lifeline. So if

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you get into an accident, something happens, you're in the
middle of nowhere, your phone is basically gonna call emergency
services for you. So that's pretty amazing. Now, if you
have the iPhone se, I think that this is gonna
be a really nice upgrade. I know you're gonna lose
that home button, but I think overall, this is a
really nice phone for the price. But there are some
things you don't get, and I haven't mentioned the price

(07:31):
just yet, have I I'll tell you that in a moment.
You do get an OLED screen, but it's not gonna
be as bright as the iPhone sixteen. So in almost
every aspect you're getting what you need, but you're getting
kind of a little bit of a lesser version of it.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
And I think for most people that's not going to
be that big of a problem.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
There's no dynamic island that's that little area near the
selfie camera that displays information. It's the kind of traditional
notch they had on older models of the iPhone. Also,
there's no always on display. So if you like to
look at your phone, glance at the screen, be able
to see the time and notifications without touching it, that's
not happening on this device. There's also now this gets

(08:07):
into a little bit of a nuanced area. But this phone,
and I think a lot of people, of course give
Apple some issue with this. It's got a slow refresh rate,
so slower than Android phones of this quality.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
And what does that mean.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
It means that when you're moving around on the screen,
things may not refresh as quickly.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
They may be a little bit slower to the eye.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
But I don't think people that are buying this phone
are going to care about that, and that's never been
a big issue with Apple because it's still a very
good device. Now there is wireless charging. There's no support
for mag Safe, so that means you can't magnetically attach
accessories to the back. But you can add this functionality
through a case. It has to be a third party case.
Apple came out with some of their own cases. They

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do not have mag Safe that they add. Also, the
sixteen E supports slower wireless charging, so it's only seven
and a half watch versus fifteen, which is the full
speed charging on the iPhone sixteen models. Now there's no
ultra wide bandship, which means, yes, you can still find
your air tags and other items, it's just not going
to lead you to them precisely. So yes, you can

(09:08):
still locate stuff, but the ultra widebandship allows you to
kind of your phone will tell you, hey, move over
to the left, and it's two hundred feet away there.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
It is.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Also there's Wi Fi six versus the latest Wi Fi
seven on the other iPhone sixteen models. But still this
is a great value for an iPhone. Now the price
is higher than before. The SEU was four hundred and
twenty nine dollars. This is five hundred ninety nine dollars.
But I'm already seeing tons of deals. Verizons got this
thing for like five bucks a month at and T

(09:37):
and T MO will have it if you trade in
a line completely free. But check the latest deals, because
that's what this phone is all about. It's about value
and getting you into the Apple ecosystem. It's for people
that walk into an Apple store and say I don't
care about the features. I just want a new phone.
That's all I care about, and I want a good price.
That's who they're going to sell this phone to. And

(09:57):
I'm telling you they're going to sell a lot of
these things because by the time you get through all
the features on it, you're saying, well, I've got the
basics covered, what more do I need? And the person
that's selling to you is gonna say, yeah, it's fine.
I mean, do you need the three lenses, do you
need the ultra wideband? Do you need the fastest WiFi?
People are gonna say no, it's all fine. So this
is a direct response to all of those inexpensive Android

(10:21):
phones out there. And I think what Apple has done
is they've reached such a scale with their business they're
getting tough to beat. They make their own processors, everything
performs really well. Now, they make their own modems, so
every little breakthrough they have pays off for years to come.
Not to mention, they also have stores in every major
city around the world that you can walk into and

(10:42):
get help with your phone, plus repair shops that fix
your phone, plus successories. The iPhone sixteen E is five
hundred and ninety nine dollars for a one hundred and
twenty eight gigabyte model. It's available Friday, February twenty eighth.
Of course, when I get my hands on this thing,
I will test it. I will give you my thoughts,
but I think generally Apple is going to sell a
lot of these phones. All right, coming up on the show,

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we are going to talk to you eight eight eight
rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one. If you want to read
some more of my thoughts on the iPhone sixteen e
go to my website rich on Tech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology at Triple A rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Just talking to Adam who's in
for Bobo today. He was like, what's the deal with
the always on display? So, just so you know, the
always on display pretty much keeps your iPhone screen on

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at all times, like it's showing information like your latest notifications,
the time, your widgets, and he's saying, does not use
a lot of battery, and it's because these displays can
be brought down to a very low refresh rate, like
they're adjustable that it doesn't use much battery at all.
Like I remember when they finally introduced the always on

(12:07):
display with the iPhone and people are like, oh, that's there,
goes the battery. But no, they seem to hold up.
So if you want that feature, by the way, you
do have to go with the sixteen Pro Max. That's
not on the standard sixteen. And again it's not on
the sixteen e either. Eighty eight Rich one O one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
If you want notes to anything that I talk about
on the show, just go to Rich on tech dot

(12:29):
TV hit the light Bulb. I do take very good
notes and I post them all there. Let's go to
Wayne in Irvine, California.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wayne, you're on with.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Rich him Rich, I have a big problem to hear
this week. A few days ago, my Facebook account was
suspended and I got a message and say, your Facebook
account was suspended because your Instagram account and it has
an Instagram account name, does not follow our rules.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
And it's not my account.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
I guess I've been hacked and as a result, because
it didn't follow their rules. Whatever they did, they shut
down my whole Facebook account. How do I get it back?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is this is a major problem, Wayan, and you know,
I feel for you, number one, because it's very frustrating
because you can't really get a hold of someone at Facebook.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
So this happened to me, but it wasn't It was
a mistake.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I was not hacked, just I don't know if I
was targeted whatever from Facebook, but I but I mind
all of a sudden went away. And the way I
got it back was I tweeted and of course people
see me and you know whatever, they ended up getting
it back somehow miraculously. But for the rest of you
that have to deal with the standard process of Facebook,
it is not easy. So number one, you got to

(13:43):
go to Facebook dot com slash hacked, and that is
the place to go to get your account back. The
way that they are taking over these accounts is many,
many ways. So if you have a week password, obviously
that's an easy one. The second way is they find
your password online through all these data leaks and hacks
and things, and they just try a bunch of them Facebook.
I mean, there are a couple of main websites out

(14:05):
there right, Facebook, Instagram, x, Gmail, Yahoo, all of those
accounts people are going to try when they find your
user name and your password online. So if they find
an email address that's got an email and a password,
they're going to just go to these websites and try them.
It's most of the time an automated system that's just
trying many of them all at the same time. But

(14:26):
sometimes they get in, like they did with your account.
So once they get in, what are they doing? Why
do they even want access to these accounts? They want
access because these are legitimate accounts, And so all of
a sudden, your account goes from sharing your puppy photos
with your friends to now selling some crypto scam to
your friends and texting all of them and saying, hey,

(14:47):
I've got this great offer for you, and your friend
is like, that's not typically like what Wayne is texting me,
But I'll text them back because my friend Wayne. And
then of course your friend realizes that it's not really you,
it's a hacker, and the scam just continues and they
it's a numbers game. So that's the number one place
to go Facebook dot Com, slash hacked. It does take
a while, you may get it back, you may not,

(15:07):
but I know from experience it does take a long time. Now,
the other thing people have had some success with is
this thing called meta verified. So if you go through
Facebook dot com slash hacked, you're not going to get
a human right, You're just gonna go through an automated
system over and over, keep trying. But meta verified you
pay fifteen bucks a month to get verified, and then

(15:28):
what happens when you pay that fifteen dollars a month.
You now have access to a live human being who
can help you get your account back. Now, we had
this exact same issue last week, and I'm trying to
find my feedback here where I put this in. But
let's see she ended up. We had Alison and Newport Beach.
She got our business Instagram account taken down for violations.

(15:52):
She knew what was not true. I told her about
the meta verified program. She emailed me after the show saying,
oh MG, it worked, my account was back. Thanks so
much for your help. I'm on the hook for eleven
ninety nine a month through meta but I'm happy to
be part of their protection plan. So she got her
account back instant, I mean almost instantly after she did this,
so I told her, I said, look, you probably don't

(16:13):
have to pay forever. Just pay for the first month,
get your account back, get it up and running, secure
your account, and then you can stop paying. And here
is the most important takeaway for not only you, Wane,
but every single person that has an Instagram or a
Facebook account. Lock down your account with two factor authentication.
So Google Facebook, two factor authentication, Instagram two factor authentication.

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That is what you need to do. So what happens
is even if someone gets into your account with your
username and your password, once they try to log in,
it is going to text you a code and they
are not going to have that code because it's going
to go to your cell phone or your email address,
and the hacker is going to be foiled because they
don't have it. And when you get that code, you go,
oh ooh, that's a problem. Why am I getting this

(17:00):
code randomly? It's because someone's trying to get into your account.
So please the takeaway use strong passwords, unique passwords, two
factor authentication. That is the best way to authenticate and
keep your account safe. An authentication app is better than
a text message.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
But I'll take the text message, all right, Coming up,
we're going to talk to Titania Jordan of Bark.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
She's going to tell us how to keep kids safe online.
My next guest is Titania Jordan. She's with Bark Technologies
and a passionate advocate for keeping kids safe online. Her
new book is called Parental Control. It teaches parents how
to take back the reins and guide their kids toward

(17:45):
a safer, healthier online experience. So you're with Bark Technologies,
first off, tell me what Bark.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Is all about.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
Sure, So, Bark helps keep kids safer online with our
Safer smartphone for Kids, Safer smart watch for Kids, our app,
our community. It's just it's been incredible to see the
growth since twenty fifteen.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
What do you think kids and parents are up against
on the Internet today, Well.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Rich, you know just as much as I do about this,
But for everybody watching and listening, it's a lot. Children
are spending upwards of eight hours a day on connected tech.
Their children, their parents have no frame of reference for
these worlds like Snapchat and roadblocks and Minecraft, so parents
are floundering. Kids are exposed to problematic content and people

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much younger than they should be, much more frequently than
they should be, so it is truly a state of crisis.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
So when we hear these terms like Snapchat and roadblocks
and all these other platform games and the things that
kids are just doing and it's accepted shorts, are they
really bad?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes? Yeah? In short, yes, is everything bad all the time?

Speaker 7 (18:57):
No?

Speaker 5 (18:58):
But would you let it twelve year old drive a
Lamborghini with no seat belt?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Would you send a third grader into the woods to
cut down a tree with a chainsaw?

Speaker 7 (19:11):
No?

Speaker 5 (19:12):
You know, there's really powerful tools that we all have
at our disposal, smartphones and the Internet included, and when
you give children unfiltered, unfettered, unmonitored access to the Internet,
bad things are going to happen.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
It's the Internet.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
What do you think about the tools that tech companies
themselves put out? Okay, I know it's a loaded questions,
you know the answer.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, I will say the most promising parental controls that
I have seen to date from any big tech company
have been Instagram's teen accounts.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Those are actually decent.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Asterisk everything else that I have seen smoke and mirrors
because the child can unlink it, or the parental controls
aren't actually giving the parent any control or any meaningful insight.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
What are some of the worst offenders out there when
it comes to what kids are exposed to on these platforms.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Is it TikTok?

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Is it Instagram?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Is it Roadblocks?

Speaker 6 (20:06):
If I have to.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Pick one, like the number one top worst app for
a child, including somebody under the age of eighteen an
older teen, it's Snapchat.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
It's absolutely Snapchat, hands down.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Snapchat was created for the whole premise of sending disappearing
dudes right, not a place that kids need to be.
It makes children think unrealistically that their photos and videos
will disappear when we know that they are saved to
a server or somebody else nearby can take a.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Picture of it.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
It facilitates the sale and distribution of drugs that have
fentanyl in it that have killed children. It creates too
fomo and mental health issues. You know, if you're on
snap maps, you see where all your friends are and
you weren't invited.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
That does not feel good.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
And parents not blaming them, but I feel like they're busy,
they don't understand all of the tools out there, and
they just don't have the time, no to even get
through what all of this means. So they let their kids.
They hand the phone over, they hand the tablet, and
the kids seem to be content.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
So is that where the problem occurs. That's a huge
part of the problem.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
And anything that I am saying to you right now
is not from a place of judgment. It's from a
place of I have been there. My son is sixteen.
I made all the mistakes. I let the iPad baby
sit him, I let him have too much tech too soon,
And I am pleading with you to please not make
those same mistakes with your children, because it has very
real physical and mental health ramifications.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Tell me about the book, So why did you want
to write a book and what do you hope to
instill in the reader?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
I wrote this book because it's the book I wish
I had Again. My son is sixteen, and starting when
he was around three four five, I was faced with
all of these issues around when to allow us access
and seeing the problems it was causing with lighting up
the pleasure shuner for his brain and him were responding

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in a way that I.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Would never respond to my parents, you know, like wait what?

Speaker 5 (22:04):
And then I just started to realize and unpack all
these things. And again I can't go back, but Hopefully
those of you with younger children, or even children that
are older, you have the opportunity to make a better
choice today. And hopefully my book giving you the data
for how to properly raise your child in this age
when everything is completely nuts, can help you have a

(22:27):
better relationship with your child, set your child up for
success again physically, with more movement outside and mentally around just.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Being a happier, more fulfilled human.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
If I had to give parents just one tip, right,
maybe you don't like to read books, don't want to
buy the book, that's totally fine, But I would say,
and it's actually not one.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
I'm going to slip two in there. Two for one.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
One is just delay is the way you will not
regret delaying giving your child access. And I can't claim
responsibility for that quote. It comes from our friend Chris
mckenn of protect young Eyes dot com. And then also
just free tip, don't let your children have connected tech
in the bedrooms behind closed doors overnight.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
You can avoid a lot of problems that way.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Any warning signs parents should be aware of when their
kids are either seeing too much, having too much, doing
too much.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Absolutely, you know when your child overreacts because you've said, okay,
you've had enough. That's a clear warning sign that they
are not able to self regulate. The tech is in
control of them. They are not in control of the tech.
So you have to work with them to help them
understand that. Help them understand why there's a reason why
they don't have unlimited access to a tub of ice

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cream at dinner, and there's a reason why they don't
have unlimited access to Minecraft for seven hours on Saturday.
You know warning signs that are even more severe and
important to pay attention to anything involving sleep too much,
not enough, diet too much, not enough grades? Are they
dropping changes with friends and interest? There's an obviously normal

(24:04):
amount of that as you grow, But if your child
has completely withdrawn or seems agitated when certain people are around,
just pay attention and trust your gut. We are given
this gut feeling where we just we can sense something
is off with your child. Do not be afraid to
address it. And if your child won't talk to you,
which is normal, that's okay. Don't be afraid to reach

(24:25):
out to your child's pediatrician or school counselor, because unfortunately
they are seeing a dramatic increase in issues with children,
and they are best suited to help you address that.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
What was the.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Biggest challenge you faced in writing the book? Any chapter
that stands out to you, or any topic that you
thought was really the most important.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
In this It was suggested to me that I share
some of my personal stories growing up to help give
the reader reference for why I do.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
This and why I care.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
So it was hard to talk about, you know, my
childhood sexual abuse, or my own struggles with ideation and
disorder eating. But I'm so thankful that I can share
those things without shame, because that's how we help each
other as by being real with each other. You know,
I went on to have a very successful career and family,
and I'm very happy and fulfilled and if I can

(25:16):
overcome all of those things and be here with you today,
like anyone can. So that was a challenge. And then
also just the subtitle like how do you do this
in a balanced way? You know, you can either give
all the access and raise your hands up and say
oh oh, or you can keep your kid in a bubble,
have no internet and you know, live off the grid.

(25:37):
Neither of those solutions work, So what is the right
way the playbook, the task lisk for how to do
this in a way that everybody is healthy and has balance.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
And that was hard.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
That was hard to land on because we are still
figuring this out in real time.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, so I guess my final question is can this
be done? I mean, can parents have a good back
and forth with their kids and their kids have a
good relationship with tech?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Is a possible?

Speaker 6 (26:01):
I really believe it is.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
I really believe it is because again tech is a tool,
and our children can use the tech to create, to curate,
to authentically connect with loved ones through FaceTime, you know,
with Grandma who's across the country. We can use tech
as a tool, but we have to remain in control
of it. We have to have balance, and we have
to be fully informed about things like addictive algorithms and misinformation.

(26:24):
And is this an influencer? Is this just an organic post?

Speaker 6 (26:28):
You know? So we can?

Speaker 5 (26:30):
We absolutely can, And it starts with listening to Rich
and I today and just just paying attention and those
candid conversations with your children more frequently than you might think,
and younger.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Than you might think.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Big thanks to Tatanya Jordan for joining me. Some great
insights on how parents can help their kids navigate the
online world. Her book Parental Control is available March eleventh.
You can pre order it right now. It's definitely worth
a read if you're looking to take charge of your.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Child's digital life. I'll put a link on my website.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
On tech dot TV, more tech talk coming your way
at triple eight. Rich one oh one, you are listening
to Rich on tech. Let's go to Maureene in Burbank Marine.
You're on with Rich.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
Hi, thank you for taking that call. I love your show.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
I have gotten for the past week, and I think
I know what's wrong. Now your iCloud subscription has expired
and it click to renew and then it gives you
all these plans. So I got it like almost every
day now. Today when I was waiting for you to
come on the line, I krised it again and Rebroot

(27:41):
came up and said, you know, don't do it in
red and everything. So I'm assuming this is a prank.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, these have been going around and this is well,
I mean, there is some truth to it, right because
iCloud is a very popular service on a lot of
iPhones and people do run out of storage all the time,
and so they do get messages from Apple that say, hey,
you need to upgrade or else you're gonna run out
of space. But what I've talked about in the past
on this show is that every scam artist takes what

(28:13):
we typically get and what we know to be true,
and they put some sort.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Of devious twist on it.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Right, So they take that same message that we get
that we need sometimes hey you run out of vicloud,
and they make their own and it looks convincing. But
and I think this is really interesting that your program
popped into action and said, hey, this is a bad link,
like don't click this link. And so that's really smart
that you had that protection. So I like that. But yes,

(28:39):
so I think what you've experienced is the fact that
you got a bunch of emails that are bogus and
they are trying to get you to click a link
and to hand over personal information, and not just hand
over personal information, but probably steal your Apple log in,
because what happens is they will present you with a
page that looks like an iCloud log in, you will

(29:02):
log in, and next thing you know, as soon as
you log in, something's not going to be right, and
you're gonna go, that's kind of weird. But they capture
that username and that password immediately, and they will take
that and they will hack you as soon as they can.
And the other thing about this is that this is
why I talk about two factor authentication. Because let's say
you clicked on that page, you ignore all the warnings,

(29:24):
you log in with your Apple ID and your password,
and they take it and they try to log in.
What will happen is it will say, oh, okay, someone's
trying to log in. Let's send Maureen a text with
her two factor authentication. Hey, someone's logging in in some
other random country in the world. Do you want to
approve this log in? If so, yes, and here's the

(29:46):
code to approve that login. You'll see that and you'll go, oh,
I just did something really bad. So we have to
be aware of these scams. We have to be aware
that these scam artists pose in ways that look like
stuff that should be happening, but it's not real. So
always check the return email address. Always hover over the
link on an email that you get and look and

(30:10):
see what that link is bringing you to. Most of
the time it's a website that is either completely off
base or it's a website with a URL that looks
like the real thing but is not.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
So be very very careful.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now I will tell you, Maureen, you had this software
kind of pop in and it must be scanning the
links that you click to make sure that they are valid.
So I will put a note about this. This is
why I like using Google Chrome over Safari on the iPhone.
So Google Chrome has this thing called Enhanced Browsing protection,
and so what they're doing is they're actually scanning. It's

(30:45):
called enhanced Safe browsing. So generally they have safe browsing
is the default. Enhanced is a little bit more. But
what happens is when you're on Google Chrome, any link
that you go to, Google is scanning that link to
make sure it is not malware, It is not a virus,
it is not a phishing link. And they're doing that

(31:06):
based on all the other people that are surfing the web.
They kind of notice when these links pop up, and
so they'll put a big red screen between you and
that link and say, hey, other people or we figure
that this link is bad and you'll get that screen.
Now that does not happen on Safari unfortunately so on
your iPhone. And I've done this just the other day.
I was testing some links and I clicked the same

(31:29):
exact link on Chrome on the iPhone and Safari on
the iPhone. Safari brought me right to it, No problem,
go ahead, take you go there, Chrome said, huh, hold on,
you might want to think twice before you click this link.
So I would say that's a little bit of a
reason why it's better to use Chrome on the iPhone
than Safari, which is built and free from from Apple. Now,

(31:51):
the flip side is that Google, I guess their payment
for all of this protection is taking more of your
personal information as you surf the web, because Google's entire
business is collecting data about you and what you do
and where you serf and what you search, and then
selling that against advertising, whereas Apple does not do that.
So you are a little bit more private in your

(32:13):
information on Safari on the iPhone versus Chrome, but you're
giving up when something like this happens, And something like
this could actually be more detrimental than them knowing that
you're looking for a mattress or a new cooler or
whatever you're searching for it that they're selling ads against so.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Good question, Maureen.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Hopefully you have your pictures backed up in nycloud or
wherever you're backing them up and they're safe and sound,
but be careful. I actually posted this on my Instagram
and this is If you're not following me on Instagram,
please follow me on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
This is what I do.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I post all of the latest scams that are happening
so that you are aware of them. And some of
them seem just way too too unreal, like who would
fall for this stuff? Like yesterday I posted one about
this brushing scam? Have you heard about this?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
People?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Literally scam artists will send random packages to your house.
These packages will come to your door, it'll have something
in there of nominal value pair, socks, whatever, and there
will be a QR code on the package and you're like,
that's weird, Why did I get this package? Let me
scan this QR code for more information. And that QR
code may take you to a fake Amazon site. It

(33:21):
may take you to a fake whatever site to try
to get you to log in. And what are they doing?
They're stealing your credentials? Now is this happening a lot?
I'm not sure?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Is it happening.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yes, brushing has been going on forever where these The
original way they were doing it is they would send
you a package, you would scan the link or whatever,
and you would review the product. You'd be like, oh,
here's a free product, please review it on Amazon, and
you say, oh, that's cool. But now they're doing this
QR code. That's nefarious. So I posted that. I will
tell you when I posted the iCloud warning that you

(33:56):
were talking about, Maureen, this was a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Here it is.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
This was in January fourth. I posted about that and
says immediate action required. Secure your iCloud account now before
suspending iCloud subscription alert. And I explained why it's fake,
and I said, look at the reply, look at the
link when you hover over it update payment information.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
It's completely bogus.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
So again, if you're not following me on Instagram at
rich on Tech, and you listening to a tech program
like this, may say, rich come on, this stuff is
like basic. But there are people out there, especially in
your family, the less tech savvy folks, who may fall
for this stuff. And that's why I share it to
my Instagram so that you can share it to your
Instagram stories and they can be alerted about it, or

(34:43):
you can text them with it and say, hey, you know,
just be.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Aware of this.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
The more you are aware of these scams, the more
you are just empowered to ignore them. And when you
see them, you can spot them quickly. And that's what
it's all about, all right about Facebook?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Real quick?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I got a message from uh let's see Summer said, hey,
can you address Facebook's new policy on their intention to
delete live videos after thirty days? Yes, starting February nineteenth,
which is already passed, Facebook is going to automatically delete
live video recordings thirty days after you live stream. So
you can save your old videos by downloading them, sharing

(35:20):
them as the reels, or transferring them. But if you
have live videos older than thirty days, that's it. These
are going away after ninety days. You can postpone an
individual video by six months, but either save your live
videos or they're going to go away. And in the future,
if you have new ones, they're going away. Facebook says
they're doing this because most people watch a live video

(35:41):
within a couple weeks of it going live. Now, you
know eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight
eight seven four to two.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
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Triple eight Rich one oh one.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
That's eight eight eight.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
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New issue went out this weekend, so be sure to
read that all about the iPhone sixteen E. Speaking of Apple,

(36:24):
coming up this hour, we've got Brandon Butch, tech YouTuber
and writer at the Apple Den. He's going to talk
about all things Apple this week, all the little announcements
that they had. So we'll get on the line with
him and talk big breakthrough this week from Microsoft. Now,
this goes way over my head. It's quantum computing, but

(36:45):
it seems like a big deal. This is a new chip,
the Mayorana one. This is a groundbreaking quantum chip powered
by a new material who invents a new material topo conductor.
They say it's the biggest breakthrough in computing materials since silicon.
The topo conductor, topological semic superconductor is not a solid

(37:09):
liquid or gas. It's a new state of matter that
scientists have theorized for about one hundred years, but hadn't
achieved it until now. My friend I Justine, did a
great video. She went up to Microsoft and did a
video on this thing. And apparently this this new chip
they made to work has to be in like a
space that is colder than outer space, like in this

(37:32):
kind of they put it in this chamber just to work.
That's how wild this stuff is. So the main thing
about this material is that a could drastically speed up
quantum computing development, so cutting timelines from decades.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
To just a few years.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
And that means that these chips are so incredibly powerful
they can solve complex problems faster, so things like energy, healthcare,
and vironmental cleanup. So things like self healing materials, sustainable agriculture,
advance chemical discoveries. Because they can compute this stuff so
much faster, the timeline for figuring out these solutions is quicker.

(38:15):
Now this is all theoretical at this point. I mean
they came up with this chip and the material, but
now they actually have to somehow use it, and so
I think that's the next step here, but pretty wild
the topoconductor based cubits cubits are with quantum bits. They
are so small, one to one hundredth of a millimeter.

(38:38):
I mean, I don't get It's like, how do you
even think about this stuff? We're talking about things you
can't even see.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now, here's the whole thing with quantum computing.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
There's a lot of errors apparently in the quantum computing
realm because of the way that these chips are designed.
So when they're coming up with the calculations, apparently they
have a lot of mistakes. And so the big thing
that they've been trying to figure out is how to
make less mistakes. And I guess Microsoft's breakthrough has much

(39:06):
more error resistance and digital control for better performance. So
it just sounds wild. I'm excited just because anything with
these breakthroughs.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
We had Google.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
I talked about a breakthrough in quantum computing with Google
a couple of weeks ago or a couple of months ago,
and now we've got Microsoft. So again, the timeline for
all of this stuff just continues to accelerate, and I'm
here for it. Very very exciting. Let's go to Mark
in Los Angeles, Mark, you're on with Rich Rich you
excited about quantum computing.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Mark, I'm very excited about it. Maybe it'll solve my problems.
I have two R low camera systems. I've had them
for years and with the old app they've been great.
I had to upgrade to the new app and the
new app is just terrible and difficult and very complicated.
I can't set the same schedules and alerts I do.

(39:57):
Haven't paid subscription. However, the real problem, as I called
Arlow customer service in India. I've spent hours on the
phone with different people and they can't figure it out either. Well,
that's a problem, don't know, you know, it's just too complicated.
When I ask a question, they put me on a
long hold and they come back with an answer that

(40:17):
I know that they don't really understand. My question is
is there a way to get back to the old app?
They said no? Or is there a way to contact
Arlow someone in the US to get like real answers
like how do I make this all work?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Well, the second question is a good one. I will
reach out to Arlow and see what they say. But
I think that have you asked for like an elevated
customer service supervisor.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Have you done that?

Speaker 4 (40:47):
Yes? And and someone is supposed to call me. They
haven't yet, but I mean, you know, I think they
probably will, but everybody, I mean, this is really it's
kind of like the Saunos app. They've come up with
a new app.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Oh oh, Mark, don't get me started on it. I
oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
I've had Sonos for since almost since day one, and
my system I I can't. I used to not be
able to speak high enough about Sonos. Now I don't
think I could ever recommend it to someone because it's
so terrible.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yeah, the app.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
I still cannot adjust the volume on all of my
speakers at the same time.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
That is that is insane to me. This is something
that is like, this is.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Almost like the same thing.

Speaker 7 (41:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
They have told me I do have two different locations,
which was never a problem. One of the people said, well,
maybe you have to get it by a second subscription,
and I said, well I never had to before. And
if that's the the the the goal of the new
app is just to make more money, you know. One
that's not very It doesn't make me happy, but it

(41:53):
should have been disclosed that way.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
So okay, so the main system, so your system doesn't
do what it used to do anymore.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Okay, now when it comes to the app. Now, I
don't know how much. When did they update this app.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
It's like a couple of weeks ago. I think it's
pretty recent.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Do you have an Android or an iPhone?

Speaker 4 (42:16):
iPhone?

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Okay, well that's a problem. So so on Android, you
you can go to websites called APK websites that will
give you the actual old versions of apps. So in
this case, if you wanted to go download the r
low Secure from you know, a couple months ago, you
might be able to find it on this like an
APK website. There's one example is called APK mirror. Now,

(42:38):
you got to be careful, and I'm talking to Android
folks right now, because if you're downloading apk's that is,
there could be room for viruses, malware, spyware, so you
do have to be careful. But a lot of times
Google will scan them. You know, in this the website
that you're getting it from, as long as it's reputable,
will scan it as well. So I'm just saying, proceed

(42:58):
at your own risk. With I phone, that is not
possible once iPhone upgrades, there's really no way to go back.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
There is not a system to do that.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
So for you, Mark, the problem is, how do you
get these things to do what you need them to do,
and what do you need them to do that they're
not doing.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
It just to have two different systems, both easily accessible
and to go ahead and set different schedules and alerts
for both for either system.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
But they're in different locations.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
They are, But that was never ever a problem with
the old app.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Okay, yeah, I mean so that I don't I don't
know because I don't use our low so I don't
really know why that changed. But I can understand that
if you're looking trying to think, like with my standard camera.
So if they're on two different Wi Fi networks, is
that what I'm hearing here?

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, so I think that is.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
They probably said, like, look, if something's on one Wi
Fi network, you can't manage it from the same place
because you're gonna have to just to log in separately
for each network. Now or do they all show up
on the same app? They just you just can't control them.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
They all show up on the same app. But but
you just now one of them no longer records and
one of them can't be set and in general before
actually that, the the app itself is just terrible in
just in terms of how you you know, have to
now do a very complicated setup what used to be
a very easy thing. I just hate to have to

(44:25):
buy another subscription when before I didn't have to. But
but but I'm not sure that that's actually going to
solve the problem.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, well, I mean, so what do you what do
you need the subscription for for? What do you use
that for?

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Uh, it's it's to record and uh, you know, to
record any kind of camera alert camera video and it
gives you your really good alerts. And you know, I
don't mind paying for It's always functioned really well.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Have you searched online for the r low app update?
Are there people complaining about this?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
I went on the community. Yes they are complaining.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Okay, I'm looking at Reddit right now. There's a Do
you know about the website Reddit Answers No? Yeah, so
I just searched. Reddit Answers is sort of like they're
you know Reddit, right?

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Okay, so Reddit Answers is sort of like their AI,
and so it searches through all of the reddit forms
without you having to.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Do it and summarizes it.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
And so yeah, people are definitely having issues with motion detection,
geo fencing, and scheduling the user interface. People are threatening
to switch to different brands. Some people have found partial
solutions by tweaking settings like motion sensitivity and redefining activity
zones and third party solutions interesting. Seymour By prompt ai,

(45:44):
I can't. I don't know if I would recommend that,
but yeah, it sounds like Mark, the issues you're having
are not unique to you. The best I can say
is I will reach out to r Low and see
what they kind of say if this is a more
recent update, which just sounds like it is. Maybe they're
still polishing things, But I would say my instinct is
telling me that if you're saying it's tougher to manage

(46:05):
the two different locations because of the subscription situation, it's
probably because they want to push you to subscribe in
more ways. And that's really and this is the sad
part about all of the tech companies at this point
is it used to be technology was unifying and empowering
for the consumer, and now we are seeing a shift

(46:27):
towards benefiting the company first, and that's always an issue
and all these and it's all because of subscriptions. Once
these companies got an idea that, by the way, we're
not going to sell you a box of software once,
we are now going to have you subscribe every month
for the rest of your life. Why would you not
want that? And so it seems like every improvement quote

(46:49):
unquote improvement we've seen with tech has always been pushing
consumers towards that subscription for the stuff they really want.
I think that might be what's going on here. Hopefully
the app will get better over time. Eighty eight rich
one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about
Google's new AI tool that helps you discover your next career.

(47:12):
And Google's bringing one of their best Android features to
iOS kind of sorta. I'll explain you are listening to
rich on tech. Jace writes in on X Hey rich
on Tech. I'm a visually impaired person and the home
button on the iPhone is something I strongly value. With
the sixteen E, it will take a lot of getting

(47:34):
used to for me, and I would prefer still having
my home button. I used to se three at the moment. Yeah,
you know, that is an interesting point, so it will
take some getting used to.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
I think that you'll be able to.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Yeah, that's going to be interesting, but it's it's good
to have different perspectives. And Jase, thanks for that. Appreciate
you writing in on that Google couple notable items. First off,
Google is bringing one of their best features from Android
to iPhone, but kindness sort is not going to work
in the same way.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
If you've listened to me at all, you've heard me extol.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
The praises of Circle to Search on Android. I think
this is the differentiator right now between Android and iPhone
because anything on your screen on Android you can search,
you can reverse search, you can circle whatever you need,
you can search it.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
On iPhone you can't really do that.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
So there's times when someone posts a restaurant or a
link or a phone number, whatever, and if it's not
like something that is clickable, you can't do anything with it.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
But on Android you can.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
You just bring up Circle to Search and it will
find the links, it will find the phone numbers, it
will search the images, it will search the whatever you want,
text translate things.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
I mean, it's quite miraculous. So anyway, in.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
iPhone there now bringing similar functionality, not calling it Circle
to Search, but they're calling it Search Screen with Google Lens.
And so if you want to try this out, this
is on Chrome or the Google App. You don't have
to screenshot anything. So in Chrome, tap the three dot
menu and then selects Search screen with Google Lens. And
in the Google App you can tap the three dot

(49:18):
menu and choose search this screen. Uh So, it's not perfect,
but it's a little bit better. And it's basically being
billed as Google Lens but in a different way. But
it's only going to work inside Chrome, which is fine
if you're using Chrome as your browser and Google App,
which is fine. It's a start, but the fact that

(49:38):
this works across anything on Android is pretty incredible. And
then Google launched a new tool called Career Dreamer. This
is an AI powered tool from a grow with Google
that basically lets you explore potential career paths based on
your skills and also your background and your interests. So

(49:59):
if you're in there thinking, gosh, I really kind of
want a new job. Whatever I'm doing is not really working.
But I've been a professor for twenty years and I
want to try something new.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Well, this tool basically has you go through a series of.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Prompts saying, Okay, what are your skills, what's your current classification,
what are your skills, what do you like to do,
what's your background? And then it will come up with things,
thanks to AI, that you may be good for. And
it taps into job market data, so it's like basically
finding stuff that is not a dead end, stuff that's growing,
based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and also job

(50:35):
market data from light Cast. It can also help you
make a resume a cover letter, but kind of cool
if you want to try it out grow dot Google
slash career Dreamer, grow dot Google slash career Dreamer and
pop in your skills. See where you can go. I
should have done this. I should have done this to
see what it comes up with for me. That'd be fun.

(50:57):
Let's see here.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Let's go to Patrick in reading Patrick kay, uh, you're
on with Rich?

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Hello Rich? Hey, I have ways wise security systems Okay,
and I I bought two or one.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I've got a heart out here, so I need a
question real quick here, Sorry.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
I have I want to know how to connect two
new cameras, but none necessarily Wise cameras. They can pan okay,
because the Wise three pan doesn't have night vision, they
can't fix it.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
So you want to connect them to what the Wise app?

Speaker 7 (51:48):
Or no, actually a separate app. Is there an app
that I can connect Wise cameras to end it can
be the cheap camera.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
No, you gotta you gotta use the separate apps.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
The only thing you could do possibly is bring them
into something like Google Home app. You might be able
to monitor several of them from there. But as far
as I know, I've got a couple different cameras in
my house and they're all on different apps. So if
I want to look at I can look at the
cameras from let's see here, I can look at all
of my let's see here, Yeah, I can look at them.

(52:24):
Let's see those are all Nest cams. Yeah, so it
looks like you have to Yeah, you may be able
to link them up through the the Google Home app
to view them, but your best bet, Patrick is just
going to be to use the separate apps, because you're
going to get the the full uh, you know, the
full features of all these different cameras through their own apps,

(52:47):
their own respective apps. So, as far as I know,
you can't just mix and match into one place. But uh,
you know, it's it's these these companies are building silos, right.
They want you to use their app, they want you
to have a subscription, they want you to have all
the same thing. And I think that yes, you'll be
able to do some of the functionality through the Google
Home app if you have that per se, or maybe

(53:09):
through the you know, the Home Kit, the Home on iOS,
but I think for the most part you're gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Be stuck with the separate apps.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Coming up, we're gonna talk to Brandon Butch of the
Apple Den about all announcements from Apple this week. Right
here on rich on Tech, We've got Brandon Butch here,
tech YouTuber and writer at the Apple Den. Welcome to
the show, Brandon, Thanks for having me, Thanks for being here.

(53:37):
So I'm here. I'm I'm here in a little echo
here for some reason.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
So let's talk. First off, explain what you do.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
I met you at this Samsung event up in San
Francisco and we hit it off. We were chatting and
you know, learned about what you do. But tell me
what you do exactly.

Speaker 10 (53:54):
Yeah, pretty ironic that we met at a Samsung event.
I mostly do Apple content, so I've been doing that
since two thousand and eight on YouTube, and I have
a newsletter as well called the Apple Den where I
write about Apple news every week, and that's just been
my thing for a long time. Covered the iPhones, the software,
pretty much anything to do with Apple products.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
So Apple big announcement this week obviously the new iPhone
sixteen E.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Uh what do you make of that?

Speaker 10 (54:21):
Yeah, So that was kind of a surprise because I
think everybody went in expecting an SE four you know,
kind of a continuation of the cheap budget model. So
when Apple announced the price at five ninety nine, it
was a little bit more than people are expecting. But
I think we also got more than people are expecting
with the sixteen E.

Speaker 8 (54:36):
So it's the first ever, you know, E model from Apple.

Speaker 10 (54:39):
And I personally view this more like an iPhone ten
R from twenty eighteen compared to like an iPhone SE,
So I don't really view it as an SE equivalent.
It kind of is, but I view it more like
the ten R because it has a lot of the
you know iPhone fourteen design language with a lot of
the more modern iPhone sixteen features, like you know, Apple Intelligence,
which I think is a big deal, the action button,

(55:00):
the O lead display is a big one because the
iPhone ten R back in the day, the big you
know drawback with that was the LCD display. So yeah,
I think the sixteen E. It's priced at five ninety nine,
it's two hundred dollars cheaper than the regular sixteen. It
is missing some of the more advanced features, but I
think this is targeted to people who just want to
go into the Apple store. You know, hey, what's the
cheapest iPhone you have? It's going to last me all

(55:21):
day battery life. When they say five ninety nine, it's
two hundred dollars cheaper than you know, the sixteen, but
it still has the sixteen name in it. It's an
easy sale.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
That was my kind of thesis at the top of
the show is that I think Apple is going to
sell a ton of these.

Speaker 8 (55:37):
I think so too.

Speaker 10 (55:37):
I mean, if you look back at the iPhone ten
R that was you know, everybody made fun of the
iPhone ten R when that phone came out, you know,
back in the day, and that.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Sold extremely well for Apple.

Speaker 10 (55:46):
So I kind of view this as going down a
more similar path to the as the iPhone ten R
compared to like maybe the previous se models.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
What about this whole modem. I mean, they've got like
an Apple built modem. I know, it was a big
deal when Apple shifted away from the Intel chips and
their computers to their own, and that's just been fantastic.
Their computers have been so good ever since they did that.
Is this bad for Qualcom?

Speaker 10 (56:11):
I think it is bad for Qualcom if you're you know,
maybe an investor, But I think it's great news for
Apple iPhones, especially moving forward. Maybe it'll show up in
other things as well, but iPhones especially. I mean, we
saw the big difference that makes just in battery efficiency
for the first generation of this C one chip.

Speaker 8 (56:27):
So it's the C one modem.

Speaker 10 (56:28):
That's what it's called inside, and you know, eventually it's
so it doesn't have millimeter wave, it doesn't have the
super fast five G speeds just yet. But you know,
most people, especially buying a base model iPhone, are not
going to care or even know what that means.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Oh wait, hold on, so explain that again, because I
was I've seen that Apple keeps saying this is a
five G modem. So first off, the phone will support
four G right, correct, Okay, but it's not going to
have that ultra wideband so like the like on Verizon.
Let's say, when you get into those likely fast speeds
when you get into a UW section or on T Mobile,

(57:04):
I think they call it like UC so, will it
not support those?

Speaker 10 (57:08):
Correct, Yes, it will not support those. That's called millimeter wave,
and that's you know, one of Qualcomm's main benefits. So
that's gonna mostly be and like you're really populated cities
New York, California, like in the city, if you're in
a more rural area, it's not gonna you probably never
have seen that before on your phone.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
So oh when I see that, Brandon, I'm like, I'm
literally like downloading all of Netflix. When I see that,
I'm like, all right, baby, let's down. Let's do whatever
we can to take advantage of this speed because some
I mean I I think I've gotten like really really fast,
like faster than home on some of those. Okay, so
the sixteeny anything else that you think is notable that

(57:46):
we should talk about with this device.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Yeah, I think one of the main things that I
you know, quickly picked up on and a lot of
people have mentioned this as well, is that there's no
mag Safe support, so the magnets in the back. You know,
a lot of people have the mag Safe wallets that
they just stick on to the back their phone. That's
not in the iPhone sixteen E. So that's a big
drawback for a lot of people. Also for the wireless charging,
you can wirelessly charge the sixteen e, but it does

(58:10):
not support mag Safe, which enables faster wireless charging. So
that's not the big deal. I think a lot of
people are kind of upset that they can't use maybe
their accessories that they had. However, you can buy cases
with magnets in it, so it's not a complete lost
cause it's just not in the phone itself.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
And the other thing is the face ID. You know,
of course on my Facebook page, you know where rumored
speculation runs rampant. People commented, oh we face ID is
you know your face biometrics are instantly sent to the cloud.
Now I know that not to be true because it's
stored on device, but just can you go over fact,
like what the difference is between face ID and the

(58:47):
touch ID is it as secure.

Speaker 10 (58:50):
Yeah, I think it's more secure because touch ID, you know,
you can take somebody's finger. If somebody were to do
something crazy and you know, have your finger without you knowing,
they can unlock your phone, whereas face ID there's a
setting where you have to be actually have your eyes
open and looking at the camera, So if you were
knocked out or something and somebody couldn't just put the
phone up to your face and unlock it. So I

(59:11):
think face ID is a lot more secure than touch ID.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
So the other headline that of course a lot of
people are sharing online is this whole cloud encryption change
in the UK. Right, so Apple has this setting where
they can you can super encrypt anything that you send
to the cloud that nobody can tap into and out.
Now they're getting rid of that in the UK, not
in the US, just in the UK. Does that mean

(59:34):
that Apple's looking at your stuff and the government's looking
at your stuff?

Speaker 2 (59:37):
And how big of a deal do you think that is?

Speaker 10 (59:40):
Yeah, So just a little backstory here real quick. So,
so the UK government basically demanded Apple to create a
backdoor to allow the government to in view to view
that encrypted user data globally. So they were trying to
pitch a back door that would allow the government to
view everybody's data, including those in the US. So Apple
of course denied creating that backdoor, and instead they just

(01:00:01):
decided to pool the end to end encryption for iCloud
storage in the UK, which is called Advanced Data Protection.
So basically, now British user files like the iCloud backup
files will be accessible to Apple, so they'll be able
to be shared with law enforcement if they have a warrant,
things like that. Now, I do not see this happening
in the US whatsoever. The UK has been you know,

(01:00:22):
pushing back against end end encryption for years now for
some reason, so this is kind of bound to happen
at some point.

Speaker 8 (01:00:29):
But yeah, I don't see this happening in the US
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
How long before Apple just says, you know what, UK,
We're now longer going to do business here. I mean,
they're changing every aspect of how Apple wants to do
business when it comes to privacy and security by opening
up the phone. You know, they made them change to USBC,
which I do like. But still, you know, they opened
up the app store, the payment method is like all
this stuff that's just like a thorn and apple side.

(01:00:53):
How much more can they deal with before they just say,
you know what, Europeans, you can't have the iPhone.

Speaker 10 (01:01:00):
Yeah, you know, it's such a big market for them
that I don't see that happening. I think they'll continue to, like,
you know, maybe remove features and things like this to
kind of, you know, find a middle ground. But the
thing is a lot of these EU changes where a
lot of people are against it at first, but now
fast forward years later, most people are kind of happy,
you know that they kind of forced Apples hand and
doing things like USBC and some of the other ones.

(01:01:22):
This is the first one that I think, just globally
is just like a bad idea for them, like to
even pitch in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Okay, we've got about a minute left, so I'm going
to leave it to you. Is there any other I
sent you a whole bunch of topics that I wanted
to touch upon. Is there anything else that you want
to touch upon that you know we haven't yet?

Speaker 10 (01:01:41):
Yeah, I mean Vision US two point four. I know
there's probably twelve people out there with an Apple Vision
pro right now, but you know, Vision of US two
point four is a massive software update that's going to
bring a lot of big features to the Vision Pro,
things like Apple Intelligence supports a companion app for the iPhone,
kind of like with the Apple Watch. So you're gonna
have an app on your phone where you can have
an improved guest mode. You can kind of see what

(01:02:02):
the person is seeing in the Vision Pro from your
iPhone via airplay, which is really cool. So I just
think it's gonna Apple's gonna continue working on the Vision
Pro despite the you know, not very many sales of that,
They're still continuing to build it out.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
You have to be something great, will there be?

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I mean, is there a future for the Vision Pro.

Speaker 8 (01:02:20):
I think there is. I think we're still ways away.

Speaker 10 (01:02:23):
I think the weights and obviously just the infrastructure, it's
still in its infancy. We're only on the second version. Ever,
It's like going back to iPhone when it was iPhone
OS two. We're now on eighteen, you know, sixteen years later,
so I kind of see it following a similar path
where it's going to take quite some time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
All Right, Brandon Butch, thanks for joining me today.

Speaker 8 (01:02:42):
Thank you appreciate it, all right, follow him.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
The Appleden dot com, The Appleden dot com. He's got
a newsletter, he's got information. He's also on YouTube, so
find him. Brandon Butch, great source of Apple information. Appreciate
you being on the show today. Link on my website.
Rich on tech dot TV. Coming up, we'll take more
of your calls at Triple eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one,

(01:03:06):
and I'm going to tell you the app you have
to get on your phone if you want your pictures
to look their best, especially if you post them to
social media. This is rich on Tech. Did a segment
this week. You know, I'm also on TV on KTLA
five in Los Angeles, so I do TV segments, so

(01:03:27):
you can watch those on YouTube, also on my website.
But this week I talked to Jefferson Graham. He's a
friend of the show. He's been on a bunch. He
was a tech journalist at USA Today for many years now.
He has a show called Photo Walks TV, and he
shared some of his top photography tips and number one
start out. I know these sounds simple, but you'd be surprised.

(01:03:49):
Charge your phone, clear out your storage. Two things I
know seems like a given, but I've seen I've been
at the plays and the recitals for my kids, the
holiday shows, and I've watched the phone's in front of
me with that dreaded screen that says boop, you're out
of storage, and people are sitting there scrambling to delete
things out of your phone. And by the way, if
that happens to you, the easiest thing to delete a

(01:04:09):
couple of large videos.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
He also says, clean your lens. This is a big one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
You have no idea how many people say, hey, rich
or they just come up to me, hey, can you
take a picture? You know, you're at a restaurant or something,
and you know, you go to take a picture with
their phone, and it's like the smudgiest, looks like there's
vasoline on the lens. So the first thing you gotta
do is clean your lens.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
He also likes the iPhone.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
After you know, trying shooting with the iPhone Samsung Pixel,
he actually prefers the iPhone for its natural colors. And
then he mentioned a couple of apps that he likes.
Number one, Adobe light Room Mobile. I said, well, doesn't
that have a subscription. No, you can use a lot
of the features without subscribing, So I downloaded that Adobe
light Room mobile. He likes this de haze tool, so

(01:04:53):
it makes the skies look better. So you take a
sky and it just you kind of use that the
haze tool and it just kind of brings out the sky,
makes it look a lot better. He also likes the
black Magic Camera app for taking time lapses. He says
that the iPhone sort of doesn't let you change any
of the settings with time lapses. I think he says,
they'd limit them to it like thirty seconds. But if

(01:05:15):
you get one of these apps, a third party app
like black Magic, you can.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Do whatever you want with your time lapses.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
And then he likes the Halid app, which has an
anti AI mode, So if you want to take a
photo without any AI, Halid will let you do it.
There's also another one called Zerocam, which I think you
have to pay ten dollars. I think I paid for that,
but you have to It takes pictures without any AI.
So that's called zero Cam. He didn't mention that. I'm

(01:05:42):
mentioning that. But the app that if you download one
thing that I'm talking about, it's called Radiant Photo. Our
adat Radiant Photo. Again, all these apps are like freemium.
You download them. They want you to pay, but you
don't really have to. You can get a lot of
the functionality. But this Radiant Photo I'm not kidding. I'm
hesitant to even share it because I feel like it's

(01:06:04):
my secret weapon. It literally perfects your photo with not
even a tap. You know, all you have to do
is put the photo into it and it will just
automatically look at the scene, sense what you're trying to show,
and it will just perfect it. Like if it's someone's face,
if it's a portrait photo, if it's a landscape, it
just somehow does a really nice job of identifying what

(01:06:26):
that picture is and making it better. So Radiant Photo
iOS Android. Yes, they may try to get you to
subscribe or pay, but you don't have to. I've been
using it for six months, no payment, and it's worked
every time. I basically any picture that I upload to
social media, I'll just put in there and just kind
of one tap and it's perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Let's go to Randy. Randy, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 11 (01:06:50):
Hi Rich, I enjoy your show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Oh, thank you well, I enjoy doing it.

Speaker 11 (01:06:57):
I'm not super tech savvy, but I wanted to ask
your opinion, if you could just keep it as basic
language as possible. I have an iPhone eleven and I
deleted a video about a year ago, and I regret
doing that. And I've struggled and agonized over finding apps
that will recover deleted and lost photos and videos, and

(01:07:19):
I'm just totally dumbfounded by them. I did look in
my iPhone backup. It's gone. There is there any specific
app that you would recommend that would do the job,
or is it permanently gone?

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
A video on the iPhone that you deleted a year ago,
it is gone. So I hate to say that, but
there are there's not an app that can bring it
back on the iPhone, let's put it that way. But
are there some avenues that you can explore? So Number one,
did you have this backed up in any way, shape
or form to any app?

Speaker 11 (01:07:54):
No other than the iCloud. I'm not even sure if.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
It was, well, it wasn't back it was not, okay search.
What about a backup of your phone? Did you ever
have a backup of your phone?

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
No, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
So with those two things, so there's a couple of
ways that you know a photo could be still around.
Number one, when you delete a picture on your iPhone,
it does linger for about thirty days in a special folder.
And I'm sure you've checked this, but it's called recently deleted.
Have you seen that one?

Speaker 8 (01:08:26):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Yes, okay, So with the latest iOS, they did add
a feature where you have to authorize your phone before
you can look at it. But on my phone, it's
showing me, yeah, twenty nine days until it deletes the
last photo, and it gives you a little countdown for
each picture.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
So that's the first place to look.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
And Randy, even though you may not be able to
get this back sadly, I am just going to go
through these these suggestions so that if someone is dealing
with something similar, maybe they deleted a photo by accident,
these are the places they could potentially look. So that's
number one, the recently deleted, and both iPhone and Android
have a version of that, So that's the first place
to check. The second place is an online backup. So

(01:09:05):
I always recommend that you back up your photos. I
understand for privacy concerns or other reasons, you may not
want to do that, but I always recommend doing that.
That could be through iCloud, that could be through Google Photos,
that could be through one drive, it could be through iedrive.
I mean, there's so many different ways of backing up.
If you're an Amazon Photo, if you're an Amazon Prime member,

(01:09:27):
they offer free unlimited photo backup at full resolution for
their Prime members. Now as long as you're paying for Prime,
right even if you stop paying, they'll give you a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Certain amount of time to download it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
So those are little avenues to backup photos if you
don't want to pay a lot. The other place to
look is a full phone backup. So when you back
up your phone, it you know, if you have an iPhone,
it's backing up to iCloud like the entire phone. Even
if you have iCloud photos turned off, it's still backing

(01:09:58):
up a copy of your entire phone to the cloud.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
So you may be able to go in there use
a program like I.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Amazing to extract that photo out of that backup, or
you can restore that backup to another iPhone or your
or your current iPhone and get that photo back. The
other place to look, of course is iCloud. And if
you're wondering like okay, this is on my phone?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Is it not on my phone?

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
You can always go to iCloud dot com and check
to see if the picture is there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
But those are the avenues, Randy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
There is not a way to find that video that
I know of, unless someone emails me something different that's
been deleted a year ago. Because after a year, you know,
no matter what, that thing is pretty much gone. The
only thing I can think of is if it's something
important in the future, you can upload it to YouTube
as a private video for free. Dropbox gives you two

(01:10:48):
gigs of storage. I believe for free. Most of the
main service providers will give you a couple of gigs
of storage completely free. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Please back up your photos or put something that you
need to keep in a safe place. Eight and eight
rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one more rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Come your way after this.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you talking technology. Oh we got a whole
nother hour here. Yeah, uh coming up this hour, Facundo
holds my stir from how two men. We'll talk about
some cool hidden Android apps. Get ready for some must
download recommendations. Yes, he does a great job with these.

(01:11:36):
Every every time I watch every month he's got a
YouTube video with like all these like android apps. I'm like,
all right, let's see what he's got this month. There's
always like a couple of them on there that I
download immediately because they're so good. So he's going to
join us in a little bit to talk about that. Uh,
we'll get to the phone lines in just a second.
I see there, holding on, We'll get back to those.
But I did want to tell you real quick about

(01:11:56):
the Google TV app. So I don't know about you,
but I'm I'm always trying to like get a hold
of all the things that are on streaming. I subscribe
to like ten thousand different services, and it's when you
sit down to actually watch something, you're like, now, what
to watch, and you're jumping through every single app trying
to see what's new.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
It's a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
And so I've tried all the different apps to kind
of keep track of the different shows, and they're all
good in different reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
You know, you've got like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
Real good, ore eel good, You've got just watched Those
are probably two of the most popular. Then there's Letterboxed,
which is just for movies, and then you've got Google
TV and then Apple TV, those two apps that can
also keep a watch list. Now, I'll tell you why
I've kind of come to love the Google TV watch list.
It's because I don't know, I think it's like the best. Now, Basically,

(01:12:47):
if you download the app, which is available for iPhone
or Android, anytime you are on Google, you just search
for a movie, right, so let's search for Paddington, the
new one, Paddington in Peru. So if you search for
a movie, you might have noticed it says want to
watch or already watched. So that's how you add things
to your list. You just say want to watch and boom,

(01:13:08):
it will add it to this app. You can also
do it inside the app, but once you have it,
now you have your watch list. So I've got all
these movies on my watch list, and what I like
about it. You've got a couple toggles. You've got movies
and then shows.

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
You can just.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Sort that way.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
But then you also have free so you tap that
and it will tell you the stuff that's streaming for
free on your services that you subscribe to. So you
go into the settings of the app and you say, yeah,
I've got Amazon Prime, I've got Hulu, I've got you
know whatever, Disney Plus, and it will show you just
the movies on your watch list that are streaming quote

(01:13:42):
unquote free. Now, it's funny that they use the word
free because it's not free technically, but that's what I
always say, like, oh, we got a free movie tonight,
because I'm paying for Prime Video.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
We just watch something that's free.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Now, I would say the preferred way of describing it
is streaming included in your services, right, but they use
the toggle free, which I think is smart. So anyway,
the other thing I like about it is you can
see immediately when you look at the video or you
look at your watch list, it says where it's streaming
right underneath it. And then it also gives you the
Rotten Tomatoes rating. I know that's become like the gold

(01:14:16):
standard for everything. So if you go into the movie,
you can get more information. You got your watch list.
You can like it, you can dislike it. It's got all
the different ratings. You've got common Sense media, you've got IMDb,
Rotten Tomatoes, metacritics. You can kind of cross reference, depending
on you know, is it important what the common Sense
rating is versus IMDb whatever you like, it's on there,

(01:14:36):
and it also has related movies. It's got stories about
the movie, and of course it tells you where you
can watch it, so some of these things you can
watch on different services. It'll tell you all the different
services that it's on. So I think it's like one
of the best apps out there. Whether you're on Android
or iPhone, it works equally well. If you happen to
have a TV with Google TV software, it integrates really nicely,

(01:14:59):
just like Apple TV. He does on Apple TV. But
the problem with the Apple TV app if you use
that as your watch list. A it's proprietary, which you
know I don't like. But b nothing on Netflix is included.
So if there's like a Netflix show, it's not gonna
you're not gonna be able to watch list it on
your Apple TV app. Let's see if Netflix is on here.
Hold on, let me just make sure before I say this.

(01:15:21):
Uh yeah it is. Netflix is included on here as well.
So although it's interesting, it says that title is not
currently available, so you can watch list it, but.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
It may not interesting. Tell yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Maybe it does work with Netflix in like a weird way,
but it's on there anyway, if you're looking for a
way to keep track of all your streaming stuff, Google
TV app, download it iOS Android. I'm finding it very,
very handy, and the only thing I don't like is
that you can't sort your list in any way, shape
or form. So the other one's like real good and
just watch. Lets you sort your list by rating time,

(01:15:56):
you know, genre title. You can't do any of that here.
There's no sorting on this list except for movies, shows,
and free. That's it. So it's all limited in that way.
Let's go to Mark and Wineka Mark, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 12 (01:16:09):
Yeah, I'd like to preface by saying I'm bit of
a browser freak. I have five of them permanently on
my task bar here. I've noticed over the last year
plus that a lot of the financial companies airlines, banks, etc.
Are pushing us into the Chrome.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Browser over others.

Speaker 12 (01:16:26):
I love the slim browser and the Firefox is my favorite.
The so customizable Brave is a good one as well.
But do you have any thoughts on that, Rich, It
seems like there's a concerted effort to push us into
the Chrome browser, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Yeah, So I think this comes down to it comes
down to market share. So let's see, let's see web browser.
Let's just see if we can market share twenty twenty four.
So let's just see what the mark shares of the
various web browsers. So with anything else, it comes down to,

(01:17:04):
you know, these companies have to maintain a certain level
of privacy, security updates that work with various browsers. And
so if we look at desktop, Chrome is sixty six percent,
followed by Edge at twelve percent, followed by Safari at
nine percent. Yeah, so when you look at that, Opera

(01:17:28):
and Firefox have two percent and three percent worldwide, that's
pretty small. So if you are a bank, your Chase Bank,
you are American Express, you are email companies, whatever, what
are you optimizing for? You are optimizing for the market leader.

(01:17:50):
And I think that's why we're seeing this emphasis on Chrome,
because it is it commands such a lead.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
So I'm not saying that Firefox is bad.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
I think that Firefox and many ways is interesting because
they've been promoting more of a fair and open web
and more privacy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
And you know, this is a company that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
I think, from what I'm reading on the history, this
was born out of Netscape. So It's got deep roots
in the web community. But it reminds me of the
days of Internet Explorer, when that was king of the Internet,
and you would go to a website and it would say, sorry,
this website is optimized for Internet Explorer, and you'd be like, really,

(01:18:30):
I'm using you know, this was when Chrome first started.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
You'd be like, wait, really, come on, I'm using Chrome.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
And so you didn't get certain functionality because of that,
And we see this on mobile. If you look at
mobile now, this is interesting. It says for mobile devices,
Chrome leads with sixty eight percent, Safari follows at twenty
three percent. Now, I'll be honest, the only reason Safari
has any percentage like that is because the iPhone is

(01:18:55):
so popular and Safari for many many years was the
only default you could have on the iPhone, so people
just use that because of it. Now you can set
Chrome as a default. But also Android has such a
large market share worldwide that that makes sense why Chrome
is is almost seventy percent of the mobile share. But again, Mark,

(01:19:15):
it really comes down to the fact that companies want
to make life easy for themselves, and if seventy percent
of people are using Chrome, then they're going to optimize
their websites and security features for Chrome. And you know,
I've come up against this in certain websites where it's like,
you know, you should switch to this or use that,

(01:19:36):
or if you even look at let's just look at
if you go to like Chase Bank recommended browser, you
know it'll say, here's what we recommend system requirements.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Right, so they've got for.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
The best experience on Chase dot com and enhance your
security against fraud. Be sure your web browser and operating
system meet the requirements recommendations in the table below. You
can upgrade to the latest browser by using these lanes. Chrome, Safari,
Firefox Edge. Some features and functions may not operate properly
with unsupported browser versions. We don't support beta or development versions.

(01:20:11):
We don't support browsers in compatibility mode. We don't support
third party browser.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
Extensions or plugins. So again, they.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Want to make sure that you are secure, and that's
why they support these. So I don't think that Firefox
is necessarily bad, and I think it still is a
very reliable browser and I don't see any problem with it.
For me personally, it always comes down to whenever I
try to switch away from Chrome, there's always some tiny
little feature that I've come to rely on on Chrome

(01:20:40):
that I just can't get away from. I will tell
you I downloaded the Opera Air browser the other day,
which is fantastic, and it's built on Chromium, which is
the Chrome web browser at its heart. It's built on
similar technology, so you can get the extensions and things,
or at least I think it's built on Chromium. Don't
quote me on that. Don't send me the emails, please,

(01:21:01):
I will fact check that. Let's see browser identification Mozilla
five point anyway, maybe it's not. Oh it is Chromium,
Yes it is. Okay, there you go, send me the emails.
But they have this great feature where they have chat
GBT in the sidebar built into the browser, which is awesome.
And then they also have little music like focus music.

(01:21:23):
They call them boosts, so you can literally just play
music on your browser that helps you be more creative,
more energized, more relaxed.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
So it's really cool. But again, can I switch to it?

Speaker 13 (01:21:35):
Ay?

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
I don't feel like logging into all my websites again.
And b I've got my Chrome browser set up in
such a streamlined way with all my buttons and tool
bars and extensions and saved logins.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
That I don't want to change.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
And so I think some of this stuff is definitely
inertia and momentum that keeps us doing things the same
way over and over, and that's why it's tough for
other browsers to kind of break in anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Good question.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Mark didn't appreciate the Uh. You know, some people come
on the show, and I get it, it's a platform,
it's a big show, so they try to like, you know,
sneak in other things.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
I guess that's been going on on radio forever.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Adam Right, people like say stuff and you know, try
to get things through anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
I don't appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (01:22:23):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
It's like, look, we're trying to do a show.

Speaker 13 (01:22:25):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
I keep this show pretty non partisan, and I like
it that way because there's so much stuff that we
have to deal with on a daily basis that's political
and this and that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
I like to keep this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
I want you to listen, no matter what you care about, right, Like,
I want you to like the show for what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Do I have time for two quick emails or no?
Do I got to go to break?

Speaker 7 (01:22:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Okay, let's go to break.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
All right, coming up this hour again, we're gonna have
some great apps for you to download, and I'm gonna
tell you how air tags. Airlines are turning to air
tags to help them find lost luggage, and a new
airline is on board. I'll tell you about that. Plus
maybe we'll get some more of your calls. Eighty eight
Rich one on one eight eight seven four to two

(01:23:07):
four one zero on the website, richon tech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
We'll be right back. Let's see here.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
We've got Matthew from Sunrise Beach, Australia. He's listening on
KFI via the iHeart app. He says good day Rich
in the ause style.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
I heard the.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
Caller mentioned issues with Arlow, and I've had the same problem.
After an upgrade schedules and geofencing stopped working after forty
three years in it. I was frustrated with Arlow's poor support,
so I took matters into my own hand. I found
that removing all linked mobile devices from the account and
rebuilding from scratch solved the issue. Everything's working fine now,

(01:23:50):
cheers from down under, Matthew.

Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
See.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
And that's why I like this show because it is
a platform for finding out the answer I may not
always have the answer immediately, but someone like Matthew, who's
sitting there listening, going wait, wait, this happened to me.
Hold on, let me write Rich, and then we help everyone.
So that was the earlier question about the Rlow cameras.

(01:24:13):
Let's see, I can see I can look in the
show notes. It was Mark that was experiencing issues with
the latest Arlow app update. So try that Mark, see
if it works. Kevin writes in from Cottonwood Heights. Hey, Rich,
the guy who called about an app that can view
wys and other brands of cameras. He said he needed
to get other cameras because the wise Pancam three doesn't

(01:24:34):
have night vision one hundred percent on true, it absolutely
has night vision. I own four of the Pancam threes,
and night vision works on them just like the older version.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Cameras.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Have a great day. All right, problem solved. So who
had the Wyse issue? Let's see, Oh, I didn't take
notes on that one. After I just said I took
great notes, maybe because I couldn't help him.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
There you go, that's wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
I guess so I thought the wisecam had it built in,
but I guess not.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
I guess I was second guessing myself, but I will
say I did look in, you know, a little further,
and yes, I can't seem to stream.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
I used to be able to stream my wiscams from
Google Home, but for some reason, it's not letting me
do that right now. I don't know if a camera's
off or something, or it's been disconnected, but I see
it on here, but it just won't let me stream
it for some reason. But I know I've been able
to do that in the past, especially we have a
little Google Home, so we used to stream the camera
there to watch the kids. And again, see it's like

(01:25:40):
little changes, like we used to be able to have
unlimited viewing on that camera, but then all of a
sudden they were like limiting it to like a certain
amount of streaming time before it would stop. American Airlines
is joining the air tag program to help recover your
lost luggage. I think this was on Let's see which
blog View from the Wing. I like this one view

(01:26:02):
from the Wing viewfrom Thewing dot com. So they talk
about how Airlines lost one hundred and fifty million dollars
last year to mishandled luggage. American Airlines is now joining
eighteen other carriers and using Apple air tags to help
recover bags faster.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
So I don't know if you remember this.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
When air tags first came out, of course, everyone was
up in arms about them, privacy concerns, safety concerns, the
airlines themselves some of them said, oh, don't put these
in your bags, they can explode or whatever. But now,
of course they're as common as like they're everywhere air tags.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
I think there's an air tag on everything now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
And I was just talking to the points guy last
week and he said, yes, if you have luggage, put
an air tag on it, even if you have a
carry on. I have it on all my carry ons
because you never know you might be separated from it,
you might leave it behind. Air tags are incredible. So
American Airlines and I guess other airlines are joining this
program where you can now share your air tag.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
Let's say your luggage gets lost.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
There is a special link you can place inside like
the American Airlines app that will link your luggage to
this air tag. So now their system could use your
air tag and track it. And I guess they worked
with Apple to make this all happen. I've not tried this,
That's why I'm kind of dancing around it because I'm
not really sure like it's interesting. So I guess you
provide a secure link inside the app, and then all

(01:27:22):
of a sudden, the airline can now track your bag
through your air tag, all of course keeping it private.
Airlines now participating in this include Delta, United, British Airways, Luftanza,
Singapore Airlines, and American Airlines quietly joining the list. So
you basically share the item through Apple's app, and then
once your bag is lost, you scan a QR code

(01:27:44):
at the baggage office to submit your claim and share
your tracking info. So yeah, Now, the problem here is
that this is only for Apple users, and this again
goes back to that question of why do we see
such a focus on certain things while because air tags
are everywhere, smart tags tile not as popular. Anyway, if

(01:28:05):
you're traveling, definitely have an air tag on your bag,
if you're using iPhone. If you're not using iPhone, get
something like a tile or a Pebble tracker Chipolo. Those
all work with Android or a smart tag, you know,
if you're Samsung.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
All right, coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Facundo Holdsmeister from How Too Men is going to talk
about some of the coolest Android apps to download. Get
ready for some must download recommendations right here on rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro
here hanging out with you talking technology one of my

(01:28:43):
favorite topics. I'm assuming our next guest likes it as well,
because he talks about it all the time on his
YouTube channel, How Two Men. Welcome to the show, Facundo Holsmeister.

Speaker 13 (01:28:55):
Thank you, Rich, I appreciate it for having me on.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Yeah, so, I love your video you do every month
about out the Android apps, like these hidden Android apps
that you find, and I always kind of like download
a couple of them. So I figured i'd have you
on the show to talk about some of these must
download recommendations. But first off, just tell me about your
channel and haw'd you got the name? I guess is

(01:29:17):
my first question?

Speaker 13 (01:29:19):
Yeah? Absolutely So.

Speaker 14 (01:29:20):
I created my channel back when I was thirteen, and
I created with my tech YouTube friend who also loved
technology too with smartphones, and we were doing how to
videos and it's just two guys, so we just decided
how two Men together?

Speaker 13 (01:29:34):
And since then he's gone his way and I've.

Speaker 14 (01:29:36):
Gone my way and I've just taken over the channel
and since then, best apps you know, every month since then.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Oh, that's so funny, that's awesome. And why Android? Why
do you gravitate towards Android?

Speaker 14 (01:29:46):
I just like the customization behind it, everything you can
do with it, all the teendering, all the unique apps
that you can download too. It's a very fun experience.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Do you think that Apple has gotten better with their
customization in recent years?

Speaker 13 (01:30:01):
Oh? Most definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:30:02):
I really do like their new widgets that they released
back in iOS fortune. I believe on top of that,
their control panel is way better than Androids obviously.

Speaker 13 (01:30:12):
Yeah, it's definitely gotten a lot better too. So they're both.
They're both have.

Speaker 14 (01:30:15):
Their unique advantages, pros and cons on each side too.
I definitely like each too. I prefer Android though, because
it does have you can tink here, a little bit
more here and there if you really dig into the settings.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
One of the things I was talking about earlier on
the show is I think one of the biggest delineations
between Android and iOS right now is circle to search,
because anything on your phone screen is up for grabs
with searching, reverse searching, getting more information about it. Like
let's say someone texts you a restaurant and you know

(01:30:49):
on an iPhone, you've got to remember the name of it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Go to your browser, open it up, search this that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
On Android, you literally just activate Circle to Search, tap
the restaurant name, and it's like boom, you're into the
whole search information about that.

Speaker 13 (01:31:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:31:02):
No, absolutely, On Android, it's super easy. You just long
press your nab bar. You can circle anything on us
on the screen and it'll look it up. That's funny
that you say that too, because there's actually an app
on the play Store that you can download. It's called
Circle to Search for.

Speaker 13 (01:31:16):
Older phones or for phones that don't have it.

Speaker 14 (01:31:18):
Some phones don't have that feature, so if you want
that feature, you can literally just look up Circle to
Search and you can have that same exact feature on
any other Android as well.

Speaker 13 (01:31:28):
It works the same way too.

Speaker 14 (01:31:29):
You can long press the low key and you can
just circle anything on the screen and it's free to
download and you'll get that same feature. It's great to
download on your older device that may not have this
unique feature.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
That's her sing and I know, I know. It started
out as a Samsung thing. It's expanded to more phones.
But yeah, not every phone, like Google has to bless
that feature onto your phone before you have it. It's
not just like a given. Tell me about this alarm
app you've found.

Speaker 14 (01:31:55):
Yeah, so there's an alarm app called QR Alarm. So
in the morning, I know some people have it have
a hard time waking up if if you hit the
snooze button and you didn't hear.

Speaker 13 (01:32:05):
The alarm go off or something like that.

Speaker 14 (01:32:07):
Uh, there's a great app called QR Alarm that allows
you to scan a QR code.

Speaker 13 (01:32:11):
You can link it to any QR code.

Speaker 14 (01:32:13):
And what I did is I actually printed out that
QR code and I put that on a sheet of
paper and put.

Speaker 13 (01:32:19):
It in the other room.

Speaker 14 (01:32:21):
So when I wake up in the morning, I can
just get up, go to that room, scan it with
my phone, and the alarm turns off. That's the only
time the alarm will turn off when.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
I scan it.

Speaker 13 (01:32:29):
Oh really, it really forces you to get out of bed.

Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
Yeah, I've had I've definitely had the situation where I
turn off my alarm without realizing and all of a
sudden I wake up.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
I'm like, wait, what why is the alarm off?

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
How about this app that turns your front camera hole
punch into a button.

Speaker 14 (01:32:47):
Yeah, so it's called nody Guy. This is actually a
pretty fun one. So your front camera on your front phone,
it allows you to you can it allows you can
turn into a button essentially. So what I did is
this app basically puts like a little touch area around
your front camera and when you tap on it, you
can open things like your favorite app, maybe a certain action,

(01:33:10):
maybe you could take a screenshot or something.

Speaker 13 (01:33:12):
Basically, you just tap on your notch.

Speaker 14 (01:33:14):
Of your front front camera hole punch and it'll turn
it into a button.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
It links it pretty cool.

Speaker 7 (01:33:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
Now this next one you really got me to thinking
how I turned off this functionality on the Samsung the
big full screen reminder. And then when you did this
video and I saw this little remind Me app, I
was like, wait, that's actually really good because I sometimes
you miss things.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
Because it just explained what this is.

Speaker 14 (01:33:38):
Yeah, so basically there's an app called remind Me and
you can. By the way, all these apps are free.
So on the Samsung phones, whenever you set a reminder,
you get a full screen reminder, meaning that you can't
you can't dismiss it unless you actually see it.

Speaker 13 (01:33:54):
And you hit the dismissed button.

Speaker 14 (01:33:55):
On any other phone, when you set a reminder, you
go into the you get a note of vacation, which
can easily get lost in your panel. So what this
app does remind me it's on the play Store. It
basically gives you a whole new, fresh way to get
a full screen reminder on your phone, so that way
you don't forget it, and it's right in your face
right when you turn on the screen.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
It's great, that's really good. And I turn this feature
now because I do have a Samsung. I turn it
back on on the Samsung. But I love how you
can get this for any phone. Now, how about GPT
Mobile GPT Mobile.

Speaker 13 (01:34:29):
That's a fun one too, you.

Speaker 14 (01:34:30):
Know, with AI on the Rise and everyone using GPT Chat, GPT, Gemini, Claude,
all these different models to choose from, it's hard to
choose which one has the best option for responses. So
why not combine them all and have them all on
one app.

Speaker 13 (01:34:46):
This literally lets you have every single one.

Speaker 14 (01:34:48):
You just just have to type in a key to
get it linked up, and then all of a sudden
you can just ask you a question and it'll bring
up their responses for each model of AI on the spot,
so you don't even have to switch between CHATTEBT or
Gemini or Claude. You can get all the responses right
then and there. Called GPT Mobile. That's a fun one too.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
What's your what's your preferred AI? At this point?

Speaker 13 (01:35:13):
Honestly, I'd say it's chat GPT just because of this app.

Speaker 14 (01:35:17):
It allowed me to see all the different responses and
CHATJPT for sure brought.

Speaker 13 (01:35:21):
The most the most detailed responses.

Speaker 7 (01:35:23):
That I found.

Speaker 1 (01:35:24):
Any privacy concerns with this app? Do we have to
be worried about that one?

Speaker 13 (01:35:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:35:30):
That one just links it. It's all open source. This
one allows you to just link it to the API key.
You'll be okay, okay. What about this next one? Tracker control?
Because basically we're all looking for more privacy. How can
this help?

Speaker 8 (01:35:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:35:44):
Definitely. So on your phone you have a lot of trackers.
You can't really avoid it. Every app that you download
has trackers behind it. And trackers aren't necessarily a bad thing.
Sometimes they just use it for at personalization or you
can some of them use it for analytics. But this
one allows you with track or control. It allows you

(01:36:06):
to have basically a VPN, a local VPN put onto
your phone and it will basically tell you which of
your apps have trackers in them and why they're using
those trackers. And if you want to, you can also
turn off internet access for some of those apps that
you don't want accessing your internets.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
Oh interesting. Okay, So if you don't want it to
like phone home or something, you can just toggle that off.

Speaker 14 (01:36:32):
Yeah, let's say you have an offline game and or
some app that doesn't really require the Internet for example,
you can just go in there and you can turn
off the internet for that app, so that way it
doesn't do anything sketchy in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Okay. Finally, this I don't know how to say, is
a kind stop.

Speaker 14 (01:36:50):
Yeah, yeah, keen stop or kind stop yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
What is that? That f one?

Speaker 14 (01:36:54):
So that one so whenever you're in the car and
you're using your phone, maybe you get motion sickness. Happens
to me a couple of times when I'm reading or
looking in an article or something like that basically allows
you to lower motion sickness while using your phone in
the car or maybe an airplane too. And the way
it does this is by adding some visual elements on

(01:37:15):
the screen, sort of simulating in the horizon and following
your hand movements. It may sound like it may sound
like a gimmick, but it's been working for a lot
of people. It has a ton of awesome reviews, and
don't knock until you try it, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
Do you have a favorite Android phone these days?

Speaker 7 (01:37:33):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:37:34):
Definitely.

Speaker 7 (01:37:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:37:35):
I mostly switch between the Galaxy devices. I like the
Galaxy S twenty five Ultra, but my heart always goes
back to the Google Pixel just because I'm a Nexus
fan from back in the day. So uh yeah, I
definitely like the core Android stock Android experience.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Yeah, I feel the same way I find myself going
back and forth. You you remember that wallpaper, that Nexus
wallpaper that was live, Remember the little digital like colors
that would go up and down as stuff?

Speaker 7 (01:38:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:38:01):
Absolutely, absolutely, the one where you could just tap on
the screen and it expands into a four colorway immersion experience.
It's pretty nice. It's funny too, because there's actually an
app for that too. It's called I think it's called
NeXT's Live Wallpaper.

Speaker 8 (01:38:16):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
I probably saw that on your channel, all right. The
channel is how two men, it's on YouTube. How two
men follow it? Facundo Holsmeister, thanks so much for joining
me today.

Speaker 13 (01:38:28):
Thank you, rich I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
All right, I'll put links to all of the apps
that we mentioned on our website, rich on Tech dot tv.
All right, coming up, we'll get through a couple of stories.
The one plus Watch three has a really unfortunate typo
on it. I'll explain that. Plus we'll open up the
feedback right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

(01:38:54):
rich on Tech. We'll get to the feedback in just
a moment. Two quick stories for you here Ring If
you've been waiting for a new outdoor cam, they just
released one. It's called the Outdoor Cam Plus. They say
it's got the best ever image quality two K video resolution.
It's got low light site technology so it can get

(01:39:14):
clear color footage even in near darkness. You can use
this indoors or outdoors. It's weather resistant, you can mount it,
you can use battery, you can plug it in, or
you can use solar. It's got motion detection, real time alerts,
two way talk. And if you've got this Ring Home subscription,
which I think the price just went up on that,

(01:39:35):
you can get event video history. So again a lot
of these cameras don't forget if you're not paying for
the subscription, they're just live streaming. They're not recording necessarily
unless they have local storage. You can also get package
detection twenty four to seven recording if you're plugging this in.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
That's new.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
By the way, Ring just added that smart Video Search
AI you can use to find things like if you
want to search raccoon, you can see if Raccoon crossed
your video.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
Pre order now Amazonring dot Com. Hunter Bucks starts shipping
on March twenty sixth. Another new product the one plus
Watch three. This is a new one plus watch. I've
been testing it out. It's a great watch, works really
well if you have an Android phone. It's got a
great design, long battery life, great screen. But the downside

(01:40:24):
is an unfortunate typo on the back. So someone looked
at the back of this thing and saw that it
says instead of made in China, it says Meta Meda
in China. I guess there's a little typo that they
didn't notice before they went to press with it. Mistake
was first spotted on review units quickly caught attention on Reddit.

(01:40:45):
Now it doesn't affect the watch at all, but it's
kind of like pretty rare for an error like this
to slip through. So some people are saying these watches
might be collector items, collector's items. We don't know if
one plus has corrected this because the watch hasn't shipped yet.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
Right now, it's just on the review units.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
But anyway, if you get one of these one plus
watch threes, check the back. I know mine says it.
I checked mine. I couldn't believe it. I was like, what,
when did you ever see that? Some people were saying
it was a joke about avoiding tariffs because it wasn't
made in China, don't have to pay the tariff on it.
It was meta in China, Meda. All right, let's open
up the feedbag. Let's see deb rightes. What's a good,

(01:41:26):
safe and reliable scanning app to use for forwarding tax
documents to my CPA? Used to use the notes app.
It no longer allows me to convert files to PDFs.
Notes app still allows you to convert files to PDFs.
Just go into the notes app, tapped the little attachment
icon and then say, I think it's just scan scan document.
Let's see new document tached the little paper clip. It

(01:41:48):
says scan documents. You can scan the document that way.
If you don't want to do it that way, you
can use the files app on your iPhone that will
also scan documents as PDFs. If you're on Android, you
can use the Google Drive app. It's got a built
in scanner that will save them as PDFs. Just tap
the plus icon and select scan once you open up
that app. And if you don't want to deal with
any of that stuff, Adobe scan is really good. It

(01:42:11):
works on iPhone and Android. Adobe Scan is the one
ray from brayat California writes in what's your recommendation on
a quality AMFM Internet radio with a wired Ethernet connection?
My Wi Fi gets interrupted by a ham radio operator
next door, so I'd prefer something reliable.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
I found one called the Grace Where is it here?
The Grace Digital Mondo Elite Internet Radio. But then it's
got a USB two Ethernet adapter, so it's a one
to two punch.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
You'll need those two products. The Grace Digital Mondo Elite.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
Let's see how much that is? I think it was
two hundred dollars. Let's see, Yeah, two hundred dollars, So
two d and twenty bucks. All your problems are solved
there right, well, at least when it comes to the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Let's see, Bob.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
Bob writes in on enjoying the podcast from Australia. Your
discussion on satellite mobile connectivity caught my attention.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
You got the orbit mechanics a bit off.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Yeah, I knew I did as soon as I said it,
because I said that one of the satellites stays in
the same place and the others move.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
That's not true, he says.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
Both Apple, Global Star and Starlink satellites are constantly moving
in the sky. The key difference is that global Star
has about twenty eight satellites requiring precise alignment, while Starlink
has sixty five hundred aiming for forty thousand. Wow, are
those numbers right? Ensuring near constant coverage. So and then
he goes into low earth orbit. Satellites travel seventeen five

(01:43:42):
hundred miles per hour at six hundred miles up. They
orbit the Earth in ninety minutes. They're visible overhead for
five minutes. Used for fast, lower cost communications, then you've
got geo satellites geostationary orbit twenty two thousand miles up,
traveling at sixty three hundred miles per hour. They say
fixed over one spot, but they require stronger signals. So

(01:44:05):
with thousands of starlike starlink satellites spread globally, you're always
within range global stars. Smaller network means less frequent connections.
Hope that clears things up, Bob, thank you for the
masterclass in satellite. I appreciate it, and apologies for getting
that wrong. Let's see gym rights in. I'm enjoying this

(01:44:27):
application called the Cruise Globe, the Cruiseglobe dot com. It
tracks all of your cruises. That's pretty cool. It shows
you where all your cruises are on a map. It's
kind of like when I was a kid. I had
a map on my wall of all the different places
I went, with a little pin in each one. And
then Craig writes in the trick to deleting a ton
of Gmail emails, use a desktop computer only, not an

(01:44:49):
iPhone or an iPad. I just wiped out one hundred
and fifty thousand emails in about thirty minutes. It took
me two tries. Then I empty the trash done.

Speaker 8 (01:44:57):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
The main thing to know here is that when you
go to Gmail and you search for something like someone's email,
you have to tap that little square checkbox and then
it says select all up at the top. You can
select all and then it will go through. It take
a while to delete, by the way. It's not like instantaneous,
but it does take a little bit. Let's see if
I have time for one more here. Phil from Mount Prospect,

(01:45:21):
Illinois rites in. Just want to congratulate you on fourteen
years at the TV station.

Speaker 2 (01:45:26):
That's really terrific.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
We're glad to see your rich on tech report on
WGNTV in Chicago and hope to see a longer half
hour show someday. All the best to you and those
affected by the terrible wildfires and flooding.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Thank you, Phil.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Yeah, so you know, I work for a TV station
here in Los Angeles KTLA, Channel five, but the segment
goes to a bunch of TV stations nationwide. WGN Chicago
is one of them, so that's where Phil is watching.

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:45:52):
We do have a half an hour show actually on
KTLA Plus, which is a free streaming app. You can
watch it there. You don't have to be in LA
to download it. You can download it anywhere. So if
you want to see the half hour show, it actually
includes some of this radio show. The first ten minutes
is on that TV show, so it's kind of cool.
If you want to see behind the scenes what it

(01:46:12):
looks like in the studio here, you can see that.
So and then of course we have longer versions of
my TV segments and all that good stuff. So fun
stuff KTLA plus it's available on Roku, Apple TV, and
let's see Fire TV and also Samsung TVs. All right,
I think that's gonna do it. That's gonna do it.

(01:46:33):
For this episode of the show. You can find links
to everything I mentioned on the website. Just go to
richon tech dot TV, find me on social media, follow
me on Instagram at rich on tech. Next week we've
got Chris Gould of Geeks on tour. She's gonna share
expert tips on making the most of Google Photos. Thanks
so much for listening. There are so many ways you
can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it

(01:46:55):
right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this
show possible. Adam in for Bobo today. My name is
rich Dmiro I will talk to you real soon.

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