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November 3, 2017 • 44 mins
Rich gives his opinion on the iPhone X, reveals the best days to buy stuff this holiday shopping season, money saving travel sites and a new way to subscribe to a car.Show Notes: http://richontech.tv/2017/11/rich-on-tech-live/rich-tech-live-podcast-204-holiday-shopping-deals-car-subscriptions-iphone-x-review/

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What is going on?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rich Jamiro here and you are listening to Rich on
tech Live. This is the show where we talk tech,
give you the inside scoop on useful tech news, apps
and websites. Plus I help you get the most out
of your gadgets. Welcome to the show. I am Rich
Damiro and I'll be taking your calls live in just
a moment. You know, be as the tech reporter from
KTLATV in Los Angeles. And if you don't, well, welcome

(00:26):
to you very awesome. You can learn more about me
at richontech dot TV. Welcome to everyone watching behind the
scenes on Facebook Live. Thanks for being here and no
matter where you're listening to if you've got those headphones on,
thanks for joining me. So on the show today, we're
gonna talk about the best days to buy things this
holiday shopping season and what people want to buy. Then

(00:47):
I'm gonna tell you about a new way to subscribe
to a car. That's right, you can now subscribe to
a car. And I've got some top travel sites for
amazing deals on flights and hotel rooms. And of course
i'm gonna have my opinion of the iPhone ten. So
I've got the iPhone ten in hand. I've been using
it for a couple of days now, and I will
tell you what I think about that, and we will

(01:10):
take your phone calls as well. So the phone number
if you want to dial in is three one zero
five nine four three zero zero three three one zero
five nine four.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Three zero zero three. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
And the Facebook Live folks are telling me that the
mic volume is just a little bit loud, so I'm
gonna turn that down just a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I did crank it up earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hopefully that should help just a little bit. Let's talk
about the holidays, because it is inevitable.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's Black Friday already, can you believe it? It's coming
up in just a couple of weeks, and then before
you know it, Christmas and all the other great holidays
are going to be happening. So I got this. I
got this from Adobe today and Adobe basically sent me
a their annual holiday online shopping prediction data. So this

(01:59):
is based on all their analytics. And I don't really know.
Let's see. I mean, they say how they get these
analytics at the end, but all you need to know
is that they have some systems for analyzing this stuff
and what people want to buy. But here's the deal.
They are gonna people are going to buy one hundred
and seven billion dollars worth of stuff this holiday season,
one hundred and seven billion dollars. That's fourteen percent over

(02:23):
last year, so that's a lot of stuff. Six point
six billion dollars is going to be an online sales,
which is a sixteen percent growth. So here's the thing.
Six point six billion dollars. That's only a portion of
one hundred and seven billion. So you're talking one hundred
and seven billion minus six point six So you're talking

(02:44):
people are still spending one hundred billion dollars in stores,
so that's really not that bad when you think about it.
So they say brick and mortar is dead, but well,
people are still spending a lot of money there. So Thanksgiving,
let's see, they're gonna spend three billion dollars. Okay, here's
the most anticipated things hasbro NERF guns. Those have been

(03:05):
popular since I was a kid. Nintendo Switch. I can
attest to that. Nintendo Switch is selling like hotcakes. Nintendo
just announced they sold Oh my gosh, how many a lot.
I don't I don't want to say how many, because
it was a lot. I think it was eleven million,
crazy numbers. Apple air pods, those are still tough to
get your hands on. Are those in stock on the
Apple Store? Let me see Apple air pods? Let me

(03:26):
search for that real quick. I know they're really tough.
I want to buy my wife a pair, and I
feel like every time I go into the store they're
just out of stock.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
But oh, it looks like they are.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Finally in stock. Let's see, bye and Sony PlayStation VR.
That's an interesting one. Oh yeah orders, yeah, okay, uh,
now they're about five days out. That's not too bad.
So let's see if they're in the store near May.
Pop in my zip code here and yeah, they're available. Okay,
so the AirPods are finally available. Okay, so they've they've

(03:56):
reached a tipping point. Mobile shopping Mobile visits to retail
sites is going to be bigger than desktop for the
first time, at fifty four percent forty five percent of
people shopping on smartphones, nine percent on tablets, desktops at
forty six percent. So more people shopping from their phones.
That make sense, although I do you know, I do
mostly Amazon orders from my phone I don't really do

(04:18):
or Amazon and Zappos. That's about it. Mobile shopping. Okay,
So best days for deals. So the sharpest discount's expected
on Black Friday going to be TVs twenty three point
seven percent average discount. So if you want to buy
a TV, Black Friday is the day. Then you have
tablets that they're going to be twenty four percent off.
So if you want a tablet, do that. Jewelry twelve

(04:41):
percent then appliances, So Black Friday again, TVs, tablets, jewelry,
and appliances. Okay, so that's Black Friday. If you want
to do Thanksgiving shopping, here's what you buy on Thanksgiving computers,
sporting goods, clothes, and video game consoles. So it's interesting
that they're saying, if you want a video game console,

(05:02):
wait until Thanksgiving, not Black Friday. So I guess that's
the day before you buy the video game. I even
who would think that they would sell those on that day?
Cyber Monday toys, Okay, that makes sense. People are buying
for their kids and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Christmas decor
Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So let's see, that would be Wednesday,

(05:24):
the Thanksgivings, the twenty fourth, so i'd be Wednesday the
fifteenth if you want to get your Christmas decor buy
on November fifteenth, and finally Giving Tuesday, which I think
they just keep extending this stuff. So now we have Thanksgiving,
we have the night before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Eve, then we
have Black Friday, then we have the weekend, then we
have Cyber Monday. Now we have Giving Tuesday. What else

(05:45):
with what's going to happen on Wednesday?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
How about rich on Tech Wednesday, Giving Tuesday? Furniture and bedding,
so if you want to buy your furniture and bedding,
and then pet products on the Giving Tuesday, so pet stuff.
Who would have thought? Now? The most out of stock
items are going to be appliances, tablets, and TVs.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
So there you have it, all right.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Most anticipated gift items we already mentioned this, Apple, AirPods,
Sony VR, and then some of the old items from
last year, shopkins and hatch A Moles. I don't think
anyone's I don't think anyone's gonna buy Hatcha Moles. I've
seen a lot of those things. Oh, Small Business Saturday,
Janet chimed in from the live stream and Waffle Wednesday.
So yeah, a lot of money gonna be spent on

(06:31):
these products, and I'm telling you that it's it's a
lot of money, okay. And I'm being told in a
lot of ways that I am clipping and distorting. So
is the audio okay at this point, guys? Or do
I need to adjust further? Tell me in the live
stream because I'm getting various, uh, various people texting me
here telling me that the audio is too loud, which
is weird. I didn't really adjust too many things, so oh,

(06:52):
maybe this gain is up too high, so let me
turn that down a little bit. Of course, then you
probably won't be able to hear me at all, Okay,
So there you have it, Okay, Okay, So that is
uh uh man, the holiday sales. Can you believe it
that it's already the time? I mean, I just feel
like I just put up my Halloween decorations. Now I'm
going to take those down and put up all the
Christmas decorations. This stuff goes fast. So a phone number

(07:14):
to call in if you want to reach me is
three one zero five nine four three zero zero three
three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
When we come back, I am going to talk about
my thoughts on the iPhone ten because it is coming
out and uh man, by the time some of you
listen to this, it's already going to be in stores

(07:35):
in your hand. So I'll talk about the iPhone ten.
I've had it in my hand for a little bit now,
a couple of days I don't even remember. Uh So
I'll tell you my thoughts on that. Plus I'll take
your phone calls. Three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three. You're listening to rich on tech Live.
I'm Richid Muriel. We'll be back with your calls after this.

(08:02):
Welcome back to rich on tech Live. I'm rich Tomiro.
You are listening to the tech show that answers your
calls and also tells you everything you need to know
everything in the world about technology. Just kidding, not everything,
but a lot of stuff. Uh this is what I
love to do. Rich on tech dot tv is the website.
The phone number to call if you want to be
on the line with your tech question is three one

(08:24):
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. Phone lines
are open, and uh man, it is iPhone ten time.
Can you believe it. It feels like so long ago
that I went to the iPhone launch event and here

(08:44):
we are. So iPhone ten is uh, you know it's
coming out tomorrow, but for some of you listening, it's
gonna be out. Uh, you know you're gonna be. You're
gonna be You're gonna have it in your hands by
the time that you hear this podcast. So if you
don't know any think about the iPhone ten. Obviously it
is Apple's newest phone. Is amazing, it's beautiful. It has

(09:06):
a five point eight in screen, so you're getting a
larger screen and a smaller size than Apple's plus size models.
And I love saying that because that sounds so funny, right,
plus size models, But you know what I mean, it's
like they're seven plus, they're eight plus. So that is
the craziness of this device is that when you feel
it in your hand, it feels like a work of art.

(09:28):
That's how well Apple designed this thing. And Apple is
known for good design. But when you put this thing
next to an iPhone eight plus, which is brand new,
you're gonna say, oh my gosh, I can't believe how
old the iPhone eight plus looks like. So let's talk
about what it has. Dual twelve megapixel cameras. So on
the back you've get dual twelve megapixel cameras. Let's see

(09:49):
what else do you get. You get face ID, so
there's no fingerprint reader on there. You have to use
your face to unlock it, or you can use a passcode.
You've got a new True depth camera that's on the front.
That's Apple's mo marketing scheme. It basically means that it
can scan your face and figure out the depth of it.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's how it unlocks.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
You have a portrait lighting Beta, which is these fun
lighting effects both on the front camera and on the
back camera. So you get it. You know, the iPhone
eight plus has it on the back camera. Now the
iPhone ten you can do the same thing. So you
can now take a selfie with that blurry background or
the cool lighting or whatever you want. A eleven bionic

(10:26):
chip which is just their terms for the fast chip
inside wireless charging. So this has a glass back and
you can put it on a wireless charger and I
find that that's kind of handy at work, especially so.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
You can charge it pretty easily.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Doing that. You need to buy a sixty dollars charger
by the way, so that does not come in the box.
You do need the new charger. So what do I
think of the new iPhone ten? Well, I'll be honest.
So when I first when I first kind of you know,
played with it at the Apple event, it was amazing,
I mean beautiful. But you're at the Apple event, You're
you're caught up in all the hype, and it took

(10:59):
a few weeks for me to actually get this thing
in my hands from Apple. They give me loner units,
as you know, and it's really tough because it's it's
really nice, I mean really nice, and so I can't
really at this point find a major fault with it
because it feels better than the eight plus in a
smaller package, so it fits in your pocket easier, and

(11:22):
it just looks nicer. And then the big question I'm
getting from people is it worth the extra three hundred bucks?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Because an iPhone is now seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
This is one thousand dollars for a sixty four gigabyte model,
So is it worth that three hundred dollars? What do
you get for the three hundred bucks, Well, you get
the dual stabilized cameras. When you talk about the iPhone
eight plus, you only get one camera that's stabilized. So
now on this phone on the ten, when you zoom in,
your pictures are going to look clearer, and they're also
going to look just steadier when you zoom in, and

(11:55):
so at night theoretically they should look better as well.
So that's number one. You get animoji, that's number two.
So animojis are these little characters you can create and
animate with your face. Is that worth three hundred bucks?
Definitely not. But here's what you're really getting. You're really
getting the latest, greatest, best design that Apple has to offer,

(12:15):
and that's what you're paying money for.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
And so when you.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Think about it that way, it I mean, I can't
say that it's worth three hundred dollars extra for the
average person. But the reality is, when you think about
it on the flip side, you're paying seven hundred dollars,
you're going really far, and you're not going all the
way because three hundred more dollars gets you the best
Apple has to offer.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
So that has been the most common question.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I don't think when it comes to the cameras, I
don't think that the leaps and bounds. The iPhone ten
does not have a crazy better camera than the iPhone eight. Basically,
if you ask me, they are the same. So yes,
when you zoom in on pictures on the iPhone ten,
they will be slightly better, but that's only in very
small circumstances. Ninety nine percent of the time you're gonna
be taking the same exact pictures. So now people are

(13:01):
asking on the live chat, how is it compared to
the Note eight. Well, here's the thing. A lot of
times people are not comparing the Note versus the iPhone
because when you're in that Apple ecosystem, you don't really
care about the Note, So you're not really comparing the
two unless you're sort of fresh to phones and you're
just like, all right, I don't really care. I just
want the best thing out there. Is the Note eight better?

(13:25):
I think it's along the same lines. So I don't
think that the Note eight is any worse than the
iPhone ten, And I think if you're on Android, the
Note eight is probably the.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Best phone you can get.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't think the Pixel two XL is the best
phone you can get because there are things that phone
doesn't have, namely a headphone jack and the dual camera
set up, which I know they say you don't need
because they can create those blurry backgrounds without it. But
you also can't do the two X, which means you
can't do the fast zoom in on the pixel XL

(13:58):
phone number three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. You can call in, you can talk about
the iPhone. You can talk about whatever you want, whatever
is plex perplexing you today when it comes to tech.
So a lot of you, I know, uh have already
purchased the iPhone ten. It is very expensive, and it's

(14:20):
expensive even on a calling plan. Even if you pay
for it in twenty four months, it's still like fifty
bucks a month. And so these phones have gotten very expensive.
Now you do get a lot and you are using
it every single day, and that's the thing, and so
I can't fault these things for that eight oh five
you're on with Rich.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Hey Rich, it's Mike Lemono Venture. How are you, my friend?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Great?

Speaker 1 (14:45):
How are you doing pretty good?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I have a question for you regarding programs I can
download for photo editing. I do photography, and I've got
like eleven thousand photos and a friend of mine suggested
to constant, but I noticed it. The download is no
longer available. Are you aware of a free online online
program downloads to use for photo editing?

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Interesting? So you're yeah, Picasa.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I don't. I don't believe they're they're supplying that anymore
because Google has switched over to Google Photos. Are using
macro pc?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm using a PC Windows ten?

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Interesting?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean there's things like Adobe light Room.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Of course you can use that's that's an option there,
but that's going to cost you some money. Now, how
exact is your photo editing? Are you just tweaking the colors?
What are you doing exactly? Are you really doing some
hardcore editing here?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I'm based just minor editing like cropping and resizing. Uh,
like you said, color that white down, stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Not major.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, I know there's another program that my father in
law uses. Let's see if I can find it ac DC.
I think it's called DC and that works on Windows
and let's see. But the funny thing is he has
sort of switched because he okay, a C D C.
Here we go. So it's uh, let's see. The the
way you say is a C D S E E

(16:08):
A C D S E E and that's thirty bucks
and that will do everything you need. And that is
a good program. It has raw support, it has the controls.
You can do retouching, you can do cropping. I think
that's gonna be your best bet, Mike, for this for
this purpose. Now, the other thing you can do if
you want to go, if you want to go fully
into the cloud, you can just you know, put things

(16:29):
on Google Photos and do it that way. So you know,
the funny thing is most people are now editing on
their phones, so it's like they're not I don't even
you know, I don't even put stuff on my computer.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean it's on Google Photos.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
But I used to put everything into into Apple Photos
and I just don't even do that anymore because I
just find that I do everything from Google Photos. So
but if you want that desktop program, I say, might
go with A C D C A C D S
E E.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Is the program.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Good question, and Mike, always good to hear from you.
Phone number is three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three. You got a tech question, Now is
the time to call in? So yeah, I mean when
it comes to photo editing. I mean another program that
I like on the on the actual phone the mobile
phone is a snapseed. That's one that I see a

(17:19):
lot of my friends using. I you know, for me,
it's like I don't need all that power. I find
I am just fine with what Apple has to offer
on their phone and what Google has on Google Photos.
I mean, for ninety nine point nine percent of the
photo edits, I do those work just fine. So but
if you really want to get into like the you know,
Adobe Photoshop kind of stuff without being on Photoshop, I

(17:42):
think the light room is what a lot of people
like Bertie on the live chat says she likes Google Photos.
Thanks for the information. Yeah, I mean Google Photos has
gotten really good. In fact, I barely edit my pictures anymore.
I just the only thing I do when I edit
them is maybe crop them a little bit, and then
I also do the automatic.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Sort of edit.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I'll just literally press that one tap magic button
and there you go. All right. Nine oh nine is
back with us. Nine o nine. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Sorry for hanging up on you. Who am I speaking with?

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh this Isma?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey, Sam, I got a question.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
I went over to a friend's house and he had
this thing called a smart stream and I mean it's
got the ability to watch everything. Are you familiar with
these kind of streaming boxes.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I am, But here's my thoughts on them. So you know,
here's the deal. I make a living on TV. I
get paid by KTLA. You know, I don't pirate content.
That's the bottom line. So these boxes that you're talking about,
black boxes, stream box, whatever you want to call it,
they are basically stealing. And I know a lot of

(18:52):
people have them, and you know, I think this has
been going on forever. Even back in the days of
cable boxes, people had black boxes that would scramble the
cable signal. But and there's a lot of you know
a lot of people like this other thing called cody,
But I'm just not there. To me.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Number one, I like high quality stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
So I want to watch a movie that has not
been filmed by someone's handycam with heads in front of
me and popcorn being thrown around, because you know, someone
sat in the back of a.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Movie theater and recorded this thing. So that's my first thing.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Also, the you know, these these things are super hit
or miss because what you want, yeah, you might find
it on there because a lot of them are going
through torrents and things. But to me, it's just it's
it's just not the way I roll. And so I'm
not gonna get one of these things. I'm not gonna
recommend these things. I'm not going to do a segment
on them. I just don't think. I'm not gonna judge
you for using it. You guys can do whatever you want,

(19:47):
but it's just not something that I'm going to use personally.
It's not something that I'm gonna endorse because I just
don't believe in them. I mean, people spend a lot
of money to make these programs, and they you know,
they spend a lot of money to work on these programs.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
If you ever.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I mean, I live in ho Hollywood. I've got a
lot of friends that do movies and TV shows, and
every one of those people makes money, and when you're
basically stealing their content, they can't make money. So there
is a ton of stuff you can get out there
for free, and I'm all for that, and some of
the and of course, some of that stuff on there
is going to be free, and it's gonna be totally

(20:20):
legit and legal. There's a service called Pluto dot TV.
So if you look up Pluto dot TV, that's gonna
give you a lot of free stuff and it's all legit.
So if you want something that's like that, I would
check out Pluto TV. There's a million other things. Roku
has something which they just started which is like a
Roku Live channel. You can get a lot of free
stuff there, and it's it just doesn't feel good to

(20:43):
me to do that. So I know, Sam, a lot
of people have these things. A lot of people ask
me questions about them. Believe me, it's a very popular
question I get. I'm just not gonna tell you guys
that I believe in doing something like that because personally,
and you know, I'd rather just have Amazon, Fire TV
or an Apple And it's gonna cost me some but
I feel better knowing I'm supporting people and I'm not

(21:05):
just stealing stuff either. So there you have it, Sam,
that's my thoughts on it. Thanks so much for calling in.
I appreciate it. Sam. Now I've got people that are
regular callers like Sam and Mike, so I love that.
All Right, coming up on the show, we are gonna
talk more tech, more of your calls. I'm gonna have
a this is crazy a new way to subscribe to

(21:25):
a car. Okay, you can subscribe to an automobile. I'll
tell you all about that. Plus I'll have some travel
sites I think you should know about, and more of
your calls At three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three, you are listening to Rich on tech Live.

(21:47):
Welcome back to Rich on tech Live. I'm your host,
Rich Demiro, hanging out with you and talking tech, taking
your phone calls at three one zero five nine four
three zero zero three, and talking about all the cool
stuff that has happened in the tech world. Thanks so
much for listening to this. This is my experimental podcast,
so if you're new to.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
It, basically, thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I record it on Facebook Live and then I send
it out through the appropriate podcasting channel, so you can
find it on Stitcher, you can find it on iTunes,
you can find it on Google play Music, you can
find it on an RSS feeds. And if you need
a suggestion for a podcasting app, I like overcast on
iOS and pocket casts on Android.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Those are two good ones.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
And if you do want to talk about those so
we can talk about what a podcast is, call me
up three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
So I love to travel and I love finding good
deals on travel, and I want to share some sites
with you guys that I think are interesting and good
to know. So the first one is Hopper Flexwatch, and

(22:54):
Hopper is one of the apps that must have on
my phone. And what they do is they use a
lot of what is it called artificial intelligence, machine learning,
data analysis, all that good stuff to figure out the
cheapest dates to fly. But now they have a new
feature called Flexwatch, and so Hopper, the way it used
to work is you would just pop in, you know

(23:15):
your dates and where you want to go, and it
would tell you, hey, here's the best dates to go
and here's the cheapest price. Well now you can actually
just say, hey, I don't know where to go. Let
me go to Europe for a weekend in October, and
now it's November, let's go, let's go in December. Let's
go for a weekend to Europe in December. And it
will follow that search for you, and it will look

(23:36):
at all the different combinations of stuff and literally give
you a notification when it thinks you should buy a flight.
And the cool thing about Hopper is They always give
you a prediction. So let's say you find a flight
for five hundred bucks to Hawaii. It will tell you
after your search like.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
We think you should wait a little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I think it'd be best to wait because you might
want to wait. We think this this price is going
to go down, and there's a lot of big data
algorithms all that stuff going on. That's how they do it.
I talk to the data scientist over there. I mean,
these guys are nerds. This is what they do. They say, hey, look,
there's so much going on with travel. It's too confusing.
The consumer is at a disadvantage because we can't follow

(24:16):
all these dates. And see, I'm following a flight right now.
Every other day it goes from nine hundred bucks to
four hundred dollars nine hundred, four hundred, nine hundred, four hundred.
I'd be really sad if I bought it on that
nine hundred day, because you don't know. You don't check
a flight. Once you buy it, you don't look again
to see what the price is. All right, So hopperflex
watch check that out, download it on your on your phone.

(24:36):
Next website is called Provo pru Vo. This is an
interesting one because this actually happened to me the other day.
My last hotel stay. I booked it way in advance,
and a couple days before I was traveling there, I
looked at the hotel to see what the price was,
and sure enough, the price had dropped like fifty or
seventy five bucks a night, and I was like, oh,
that's not good. But I didn't want to cancel my

(24:58):
room because I wanted to kind of I didn't know
what would happen if I canceled my room, if I
would get like a better rate or whatever. So I
call them up and they did actually match the rate
and said, oh, yeah, no problem, we'll adjust that for you.
But Provo does all this for you. So once you
book a hotel room, you forward them your email confirmation
and they will keep track of that hotel room and

(25:19):
if it drops in price, they will send you an
email saying, hey, we noticed that it dropped in price.
All you have to do is click here, we will
cancel your old room, will rebook you a new room.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
And that's called Provo. That's pretty smart.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I haven't tried this myself. I haven't used it because
I haven't had a hotel stay since, but I will
since the discovering this, but I will definitely use this
for my next hotel room. And these prices change all
the time. What if it changes for a day and
their little algorithm catches it, that's what you want to do.
So Provo is that website, and they don't cost anything.
It doesn't They make money basically by taking a little

(25:50):
commission on the back end of how much your new
room costs. And that's pretty standard when you book in
Kayak or any of these websites. They're all just getting
a little commission on how much you spend. That's pretty interesting.
Provo dot Net, I think is their website three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three. If you
have a tech question, you can call in. Let me

(26:11):
just make sure that's the right website. Yeah, Provo dot
net three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
The phone lines are open, so if you want to
get through and ask me a question, don't be shy.
I know you're watching on Facebook, but you know you
don't have to show your face. Just uh, just call in.
All right, let me tell you about this one. This
is crazy. This just just just just opened up in

(26:33):
Los Angeles, it's called canvas and yes you've heard of leasing.
Uh you know, I'll get to that in one moment.
Let me take this phone call since they just called
in three one zero three one. Oh you're on with Rich.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who am I speaking with.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Rock San?

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Hey Roxane? How are you? I'm good? I'm good.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
I have a question. I guess it's pretty techy. How
secure do you think social media is? Like Facebook and Instagram?
I mean, I'm pressing them all, on all of them.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I think there's one that's safer than the other, the
mainstream social media formats or oh.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
That's a great question. So Roxanne is asking, uh.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
What all this stuff's happening?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
And yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I mean here's the deal. I think about this stuff
all the time.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
So what is what is the safest social media site
when it comes to, you know, security? And now what
kind of security are you talking about? You're just talking
about random people knowing where you are? Or are you
talking about like I mean, because realistically, here's what's.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Happening add acting, how about someone that you oh wow,
and I'm just thinking or I don't know if there
is I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, here's the thing. I mean here here. Okay, So
a couple things.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
So first off, I mean you've got Instagram, you've got Facebook,
and you've got Twitter.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Those are the three big ones.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Okay, So when it comes to Facebook, look, by default
they want to tag your location in almost every shot.
So that's number one. I don't like that, but it's
nice to have because people want to know where you are.
So and then you have Instagram, which you can which
I like actually because they don't show where you are.
By default, they don't include your location unless you decide

(28:19):
to include a tag of where your location. And then
Twitter they include a tag of your location. But it's
gotten better used to be. Back in the day, I
didn't use location on Twitter because they would literally tweet
out your exact coordinates of where you were. That's crazy.
And I kept tweeting them and saying, look, look, look,
you got to do the general city. So if you're
in Hollywood, maybe it just says Los Angeles, doesn't say Hollywood, right,

(28:40):
doesn't need to. People don't need to know exactly where
you're tweeting from. Now. There are reasons why you'd want
them to, but for the average person, they don't need
their exact coordinates attached to every tweet. So that's my
first thought. My second thought, rock Sand is that realistically,
these things are only as secure as we make them.

(29:00):
So most people, if you look on these sites, they're
sharing everything about you, or you're sharing everything about yourself.
I should say you asked about docxing. That's when someone
else share something about you, and then you know, like
if someone put my phone number up here and then
everyone else calls. But the reality is, we don't need
other people to do that. If you're an average person,
you know, number one, nobody really cares about kind of

(29:22):
putting your stuff out there unless you're celebrity. But for
the average person, you're sharing everything about yourself. You're sharing
when you get on an airplane, you're sharing when you
get home, You're sharing what tropical place you're taking a
vacation in, you're searching, you're telling people basically every moment
of your life in real time. And that's the dangerous
part about these social media sites. Now, for ninety nine

(29:45):
percent of people, they're going to be just fine. But yes,
when you do this, you do put yourself at risk
in a certain way. So great question, something that I
think about a lot rocksane, and I think that everyone
needs to think about that. Three one zero five nine
four three zeros zero three Do you think you're sharing
too much on Facebook? Because I you know, I think
about what I share on there, you know, I mean

(30:06):
you have to you have to really think about all
the stuff you share.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Three two three you are on with Rich? Who's who
am I speaking with?

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Hey? Rich?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Does that mean that's you? Hey?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Dean and Pasadena? How are you this afternoon?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Hey Rich, I want to talk to you about Wi
Fi router kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Are we okay with that?

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (30:30):
So here's my situation. I'm I'm moving to a country
in South America and I have a house down there,
three bedrooms and two baths. They use brick for the structure,
and I'm wondering what kind of Wi Fi router I
should buy to take with me down there.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Definitely you need one of these these multiple access point routers.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
So there's there's a couple that I like.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
And how they work is they basically, instead of having
one router that tries to spit a signal out to
the entire house and get through every wall, which is
like almost impossible, these things kind of split up the
signal and boomerang off each other and work together to
make a nice signal throughout the whole house.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
That is consistent. That's the real key here. They're consistent.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
So I like, I think the best out of all
of them is probably the Eero ee ro O, but
it is the most expensive out of the bunch.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
But they sort of invented the genre.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
So they invented this entire genre of these mesh Wi
Fi systems, and everyone else has sort of followed them
because it's a really good idea.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
It works really well.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
So what happens is you install one by your router,
then you go, you know, you walk into the next room,
install another, and then you walk into the next room
and install another. So that gives you three, which should
cover an average size house. And of course you can
add more if you need more. So if you have
a giant mansion, you can just add these things in
every room if you want, and have literally the same
signal in every corner of your house.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
So that's one of them.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
That's Eero. Then you've got Google Wi Fi, which is
really nice too. A lot of people like that, and
it's cheaper. It's a lot cheaper than the rest of them,
and in fact, I'm seeing some deals on those for
the holidays. The problem with Google Wi Fi is that
it's you know, it's Google, and they're kind of like
all over the place, and so you never know if
they're going to just say, oh, we stop supporting this thing,

(32:18):
we don't care about it anymore. So that's what you
have to worry about. That Ero, that's their entire business,
that's all they care about. So they're going to support
this thing and keep upgrading it. Then the other brand
I like is called Luma. Luma and the same thing
as Eero. They are pretty much the top two in
this category. And Luma's great, But the problem is their
system has been on the market for a while, so

(32:39):
I just be a little bit concerned with purchasing it
because I don't know, I mean, these things don't need
upgrades all the time. But I'm just saying that, you know,
they've had a system out for a while. They may
come out with a new one That might be good
for you because you can get a deal on an
old one, but that is the way to go, and
that is what you need for that place down there
in South America. I think you'll be very happy with
any of those. I would just make sure that they

(33:00):
work down there. I don't know what the Wi Fi
situation is, but I assume all routers will work down there.
You got to check to make sure, though, because I
don't know if they have different standards.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
But great question. So thanks for calling in with that one.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
All right, there you have it. I'm gonna come back.
I'll tell you about the car subscription when I come back. Okay,
so car subscription when I come back, and I'll take
more of your questions. We'll check social media and let's
see what else I want to tell you about.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
I've got a couple other things to tell you about.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh my favorite speed test app that just came to iOS.
I'll tell you what that is. Rich on tech Live,
I'm Rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening. We'll be
right back after this. Welcome back to rich on tech Live.
I'm Rich Demiro. You are listening to my show where

(33:47):
I talk about technology, all the cool things happening in
the tech world. Give you, guys some insight into the
neat things or things that I think are neat three
one zero five nine four to three zero zero three
is the phone number? All right, let me tell you
about this car description service because it's really crazy. So,
starting today in Los Angeles, you can subscribe to a car. Literally,
you can get a car, deliver it to your house,

(34:07):
and use it for a month or two months, or
three months or four or as many as you need.
And it's not a lease because it includes everything. One
monthly price, covers, insurance, warrants, warranty, maintenance, and roadside assistance.
So literally, you can just subscribe to a car, they
deliver it to your house. When you don't need it anymore,
you just give it back to them. And of course

(34:29):
your credit has to be really good.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I'm guessing.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
So I looked at this, I think this company, and
I'll tell you what it is. It's called Drivecanvas dot Com. Okay,
I think they are either let's see, I think they're
either owned by Ford or they Yeah, they're owned by Ford.
So how crazy is that? Let me tell you how
much the prices are. So if you want to focus

(34:53):
brand new, of course you get I guess they're all
brand new cars, right, They're not like rental cars.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
They're brand new.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
I think four dollars a month an escape four forty
five an Edge five sixty five Lincoln MKX or Z
six eighty nine a month, and you have to pay
one hundred dollars activation fee. But that's it.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It includes everything.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I mean you don't have. I mean the only thing
you have to pay for is gas. You got insurance, warranty, maintenance,
and roadside assistance. So it's kind of like a lease
without leasing. So a lease, you have to sign a
lease for twenty four months, thirty six months, thirty nine months, whatever.
This you don't have to sign anything. How crazy is that? Oh,
you have to sign just for the month, so you

(35:33):
get I guess. The main price includes five hundred miles
a month. The next up is eight hundred and fifty
miles a month. Add twenty dollars to the price. If
you want twelve hundred and fifty miles a month, it's
uh forty dollars extra a month, and unlimited is sixty
dollars a month. So a Ford Focus with unlimited mileage
a month would be sixty to four to sixty a
month out the door and the website is drivecanvas dot

(35:56):
com and they just started in Los Angeles. They're in
San Francis, Go now they're only in certain parts of
Los Angeles, so it's gonna be a little bit because
I think this is one of those things where they
can't really do it to scale, like it takes them
a while to figure out what works what doesn't. So
but really interesting concept, huh to lead it's not even renting,
it's not even leasing. It's now subscribing to a car.

(36:17):
And I mean it's an expensive way to have a car,
but sometimes I mean, if you were in a city
like Los Angeles for six months on some sort of gig,
it's probably cheaper than renting a car.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Let me tell you about my speed test app that
I like.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
It's called Medior met Eo R and this just came
to iOS. So if you want a good speed test
app for your phone, you can check out Medior met
Eo R. Like Medior, you know, like something you would
have in this in outer space. And what's cool about
this test is that they give you expected speeds, not
like peak speeds. So some speed testers they do peak

(36:55):
speeds that you don't really ever experience in real life.
So this this not only tells you the speed of
your internet, but it also or your mobile internet. But
it also tells you which apps and how they're gonna work,
so you can pick like your six favorite apps. Like
let's say you use Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook a lot.
It will tell you, Hey, Facebook's gonna work just fine,
so you know you can do a Facebook Live from
your Facebook because it's going to be working good. So

(37:16):
again the web. The app is called Meteor. It's available
for Android and iOS now used to be only Android.
I loved it.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
It was a great little secret on Android.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Now it's available on iOS, and I was wondering why
they were not coming to iOS, but now they're there.
Meteoer speed test app. Today's question from social media comes
from Elsa de Chazo. Elsa says, I'm wanting advice in
the best voice recognition for a PC voice recognition program.
I just returned back to school. I'm typing papers. It's

(37:46):
too much. I'm currently a special education teacher. I type
lots of reports. Needless to say, my hand is tired
by the end of the day. I answer email through
my phone because I can dictate my responses. I'm in
desperate of advice. What's an affordable package? Do I need
special equipment? We'll work with Windows ten and word, Oh, Elsa,
I'm gonna save your day because I'm gonna make it

(38:07):
so easy for you. The best voice recognition I know
of is free, Yes, totally free. All you have to
do is open up a new document in Google Docs
and if you go into Google Docs, look in the
menu bar, you go to tools, then voice typing, and
that's it. It used to be back in the day
you had to pay for something like Dragon or Nuanced

(38:28):
or Simple, I don't know whatever these things were called.
Now it's it's just built into your computer. So Google
has it, and it's amazing you can The craziest thing
about Google's voice recognition is that not only does it
get it right like ninety nine percent of the time,
it literally figures out what you're trying to say as
you say it. So it's like, let's say you say

(38:48):
a sentence. It will put the words on the screen
as you speak them. But then if it figures out, oh,
he meant twelve o'clock not twelve o clocks or something,
it will go back and like correct that. Once it
gets the syntax correct for what the sentence you're saying,
or the context right for the sentence, it's really amazing.
So again, Google Voice. If you are at Google Docs,

(39:09):
if you haven't tried it, just open up a new doc.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
It's totally free.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
You have to have a Google account obviously, and go
to tools on the menu bar voice typing and try
it next time you need to type something out. Now, yes,
in your case, Elsa, you're gonna have to copy and
paste whatever you use or I don't know. I mean,
maybe you said words, so maybe you're just typing in
there and you can just print it out. But if
you're typing like emails and stuff, you can copy paste.
Don't forget the major operating systems have voice dictation built in.

(39:35):
I don't know about Windows. I would assume they do
since they have Quortana on there, but I know Mac
has Siri and some stuff on there.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
So but just try that. It's really really simple.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Rapid fire questions from the chat room. So I've got
a couple of minutes left rapid fire. If you want
me to answer your question in the chat room, go
ahead and ask it now. And Rich any info, Jason says,
any info on the Wi Fi crack hack fix for Mac. No,
I haven't gotten that yet, but I know the iOS
just came out with their fix. So iOS, the newest

(40:07):
version of iOS does have the fix for that, so
that just came out. I assume the Mac one is
not far behind. Andrea Connor says, my husband got a
new job and has no cell service. He's looking at
getting a cell phone booster. Any suggestions. Oh my gosh,
the name of the one I know is let's see,
I think is it Wilson's cell Phone? Yeah, I think

(40:28):
Wilson is the company I know. Wilson Amplifiers. Check out those.
Wilson amplifiers are the amplifiers that I know of. I've
seen them demonstrated. They do work. That's what I'd recommend.
Or I would go and use Wi Fi calling if
he can. But Wilson Amplifiers dot Com is the one
that I know of, and I've seen things. Mario says,

(40:48):
how do you get a Super Nintendo Entertainment system? Oh
my gosh, you just got to stay on there, stay
on the websites, and go to the stores every single
day at eight am. And that's how you can do it,
because that's the only way you'll be able to do it.
You got to check every single day. And there are
some websites like you can check like Google like what's
in stock or in stock sns and they will give

(41:11):
you alerts when stock happens. But it's probably just easier
just to make friends with someone at a target store
or something and ask them when those shipments come in
and just be ready. Dave says, how about simcards in Europe?
What's the best way? It depends on the country you're in,
But my experience is that you can basically buy them
almost anywhere. You just go in there. Every country in
Europe has kind of a slightly different rule for purchasing.

(41:33):
Like I was in Spain they needed like my ID
and passport. Other countries you just buy them prepaid on
the streets. I really like though, if you have a
major service from you know, major carrier like AT and
T or Verizon, ten bucks a month gets you or
I'm sorry, ten dollars a day. You can add international
roaming now, So roaming overseas has gotten a lot lot

(41:55):
better since I started traveling overseas with my phone. So
just literally you subscribe to it online, and how it
works is when you travel to a different country like Italy,
your phone notices that and just the days you turn
on your phone and use it, we'll charge you ten bucks.
So I just went to Japan for four days and
I turn on my phone four days forty bucks. Now
I know it's expensive because when you compare it to

(42:16):
how much you pay on a monthly basis, yes, it's
super expensive, but super worth it because you can use
your phone as normal. People can call you just like
you're in the US. Reva says, where can I get
my screen repaired for a Samsung seven plus Edge. I
would go to look up something likeicracked dot com so
they will come to you. Or I like you break,

(42:38):
I fix you break I fix, they will do it
as well. And those are two places that will do that.
Delilah says, thanks for all your info, Rich, thank you
for listening. I appreciate that. And wow, that's gonna do
it for this week's show. So thanks so much for
joining me. This has been fun. I hope you guys
like this as much as I do. I love you know.

(42:58):
I get to talk on the news about this stuff,
but it's very fast, and so by doing it here
I get a little bit more time with you guys.
I can go into depth a little bit more on
the stuff that I find really interesting, and of course
take your phone calls and that's really fun. So that's
going to do it for this episode of rich on
Tech Live. You can find me weekdays on the KTLA
five Morning News in Los Angeles around five fifteen seven

(43:20):
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stations around the nation as well, including Cleveland, San Diego, Sacramento, Seattle, Denver, Houston,
New York a lot of different places, so you can
find me there if you live there. Don't forget to
check out my website rich on Tech dot tv. I

(43:40):
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(44:04):
love it, and that way people can find it. And
oh my gosh, look at that. We even ran out
of music. That's how long the show went. That's gonna
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