Modem Lease Fees and Editing Video on a Smartphone

Rich DeMuro talks about avoiding modem lease fees, apps to edit video on a smartphone and the best Facebook Live tools in this longer format show where listeners call in with their questions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
What's going on. Rich DeMuro here, Rich on tech Live.
Welcome to the show. This is where we talk about
technology and getting the most out of your gadgets. My
name is Rich Dmuro. I am your host. I'll be
leading you through the next forty five minutes to an
hour of tech questions and answers. We'll talk technology. Lots
of cool stuff happening in the tech world, like SpaceX

(00:31):
launching its first space Internet satellites. We've got what to
expect from the big mobile cell phone show that's gonna
happen this weekend in Barcelona. We've got the tragic the
tragic decision of iPhone versus Pixel. Amazon and Apple is
upgrading their AirPods. Lots of stuff going on. There's always

(00:54):
so many things happening in the tech world. We'll get
to hopefully all those stories. But most importantly, I will
be taking your phone phone calls at the phone number
you see three one zero five to nine four three
zero zero three three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three. If this is the first time you're
seeing me, well that's a surprise because I don't know
how you found me. But welcome to everyone watching on

(01:16):
Facebook Live. If you've done this before. Thanks so much
for joining me once again. You know that this is
all done by me, So I'm I'm like, I got
a lot of stuff going on here, so sometimes there's
little glitches, but most of the time it does work.
And primarily I'm here for you. I just want to
answer your tech question. So if you have one, go
ahead and dial me up on the phone line and

(01:38):
I will get to you to answer your tech questions.
And of course you can also leave a chat on
the Facebook Live and I will get to some of
those questions as well. So let's talk real quick, because
I find this so fascinating that SpaceX launched the first
of many many satellites. It launched two Space Internet satellites,

(02:00):
the first of nearly twelve thousand, So twelve thousand satellites
they're going to launch. And here's the thing we all
complain about our Internet, you know, Well, this is the
best part is that they want to blanket the entire
United States with Space Internet. So this would just be amazing.

(02:21):
They would have a set of satellites, twelve thousand satellites
orbiting the Earth. And here's the thing. They're not stationary satellites.
These satellites would move, so four thousand of them would
sit about seven hundred miles up, seventy five hundred of
them would sit about two hundred miles up, and they
have to move around at all times. And the Wall
Street Journal says that in twenty seventeen, the company expects

(02:43):
to have more than forty million subscribers to the service
by twenty twenty five, amounting to thirty billion dollars in revenue.
So this is a this is something big that's happening
in our world. So when we think about our internet,
one of the common complaints I get is I'm paying
too much and I'm not getting the best speed. And
if you have Internet that comes over like satellite already,

(03:06):
you know that it's painfully slow if you live out
in rural areas well. This is going to change all that. Apparently,
they're not going to put up satellites that put super
slow internet. This is gonna be fast Internet. I call
it laser internet because it just sounds so awesome. But
think about it. When you could blanket the entire Earth
and have a signal theoretically anywhere you go, what kind
of implications does that have for our technology, for our world,

(03:29):
and Elon Musk is really really killing it with all
his things that he's doing. So if you were in LA,
they did the second launch today, but obviously you might
be listening to this a little bit later, so this
is just the first of twelve thousand. Wow, that's so
crazy to think about. But here's the thing. Obviously this
is probably going to be pretty expensive at the beginning,

(03:50):
but the prices will come down over time, or maybe
it won't be that expensive. I remember when Sirius XM
launched and it was such a big deal because it
was the first time you could have a coast to
coast radio. Do you remember that was like in two
thousand or two thousand and one. They had billboards all
over LA when that happened. But now we're gonna see
the same thing with internet. So just imagine serious XM

(04:10):
radio but Internet anywhere you go. And yeah, there's some
dropouts here and there, but for the most part, the
reality of this is going to be amazing Internet everywhere
you go. I can't wait. Let's see what you guys
are saying on the Facebook Live. Joe says very cool,
Dominic says SpaceX great launch. Let's see what else we

(04:32):
have here. Let's see. Joe Anne says, I did not
know SpaceX was about the Internet, so cool, though I'm
worried about the lack of net neutrality though, yeah, I
hear you, the lack of net neutrality. This is a
private enterprise, so you know, we'll see what happens with this.
But I have good feelings for Elon. I feel like
he does the right thing and I think he's looking

(04:54):
out for us. And Chris says Serious was like eight
bucks a month, so yeah, that's the funny thing about
Serious XM. It started out really cheap, and it just
keeps getting more and more expensive. So yeah, I don't
know about that one. We'll see. We'll see how expensive
satellite internet is, all right. Phone lines open three one
zero five nine four three zero zero three three one

(05:16):
zero five nine four three zero zero three. Michael says
it's going to be a big boon to autonomous driving,
and Kat says, I love the idea of internet everywhere,
especially for my husband. All right, let's get to our ope.
We had our first caller that got a little little
shy there, so they hung up there they are, all right,
first caller five five nine, you're on with Rich. Who

(05:38):
am I speaking with?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hey Rich, this is Wayne from Presde California. Hey Wayne,
how's it going.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'm doing great? How are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Good?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Thanks thanks for taking my call. Watch you on KTLA
whenever I can get in the LA area.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Thanks for doing the show.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Thanks for.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I am looking into getting a Wi Fi router because
my Apple expressions are pretty much fight in the dust.
I'm looking at the Eero. Okay, what do you think
about the Euro? I know it's very expensive.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, it's very expensive. Here's the deal. That's the one
that I have. It is the best, in my opinion.
I've tried a couple of them. I love the Euro because,
first off, they invented the category. So basically, while everyone
else was doing these extenders and boosters, Ero was like,
you know what, let's just do something totally different. And
it's been around for a couple of years. Like I
used to see that sees. The problem was it was

(06:42):
prohibitively expensive. Now it's just expensive. But I will tell
you the setup is simple, the service is amazing. The
actual devices are super clean. They fit in. If you're
an Apple guy, you had an airport extreme you clearly
like design. These things are well designed. And I will
tell you I pay for one hundred Internet all around

(07:02):
my house. You know, that's what comes in at the source,
and I get one hundred down every single corner of
my house. My father in law, who has a larger
home than I do, we install this in his place.
And he used to have spotty, spotty internet everywhere. We
used to have all kinds of extenders and all stuff
going on. In his place. We put euro in. He's
gotten four or five of those things in every corner.

(07:24):
And I'm telling you, he gets a hundred in every
corner of his house. It is unbelievable. The only other
one that now here's the downside, Wayne, is that Eero
is a startup. You heard that they just laid off
a bunch of people a couple of weeks ago. So
there's always yeah, so there's always the risk of Euroo
going under. And if they go under, then you know,

(07:48):
it doesn't bode very well for the system because it
is it is a Wi Fi system. Now, it probably
would rely on their back end servers and things like
that to operate like your standard Wi Fi router or
your standard router. I guess I should say that would
still pretty much work. Now there's a couple other ones
out there. Let's see what's the other one that people like.

(08:11):
I think it's called Orby is the other one that
people like as well, and this is Netgear. Now, Netgear's
been around forever and Orby is their big brand. So
you can kind of compare those and see which one
you like. But personally, I love my hero. I think
it's fantastic and I would go with it for sure,
And you're gonna love.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
It fantastic, thank you very much. Yeah, it's my expresses
and my extremes are slowly as taking a dive. And
since Apple's that gonna supported anymore, I need to move
on as something else.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I think I think you'll be really happy with it.
It's just great how you can manage it too. It's
all from your phone. The way you set them up
is all through your smartphone. It actually tells you, like, hey,
you need to put this in a little bit further
away or a little bit closer, and you can add
onto your system as you go along. So I told
this story last show, but basically I was at my

(09:03):
brother in law's house and his internet was pretty spotty.
And I said, look, we got to go out and
get you Eero. And we went to best Buy and
I kind of talked to the best Buy guy because
I love euro and he said, well, Orby's also selling
pretty hot. But you know, I decided on the Ero
at the end of the day because that's the one
I have, and he just loves it. So he and
he has more stuff than I do. He's got all
kinds of cameras and all kinds of stuff set up

(09:25):
in his place, Chrome Cast Sonos, and it's handling it
like a champ. So you'll be very happy.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
All right, Thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
All right, Wayne, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it.
Phone number is three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three. Let's just go right to seven one
four seven one four. You're on with Rich. Who might
I speaking with Rich?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's Debbie and I'm calling you back from last show
because you did recommend to be getting the Orby and
I purchased it.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Love it and you love it? Okay, So how was
it to set up? How much was it? First?

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Super easy on Amazon?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It was about two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Bucks okay for what that's a two packs the.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Two pack, but it covers five thousand square feet, so
it's more than enough. And the setup was super easy.
It was literally plug it in and it walked you
through on the app on your phone how to do it.
And I can't even say enough about it. I'm getting
great speeds. I'm getting over one hundred speed, which is bizark,

(10:29):
So I'm not paying for over one hundred.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, mine will go up to one twenty sometimes and
I pay for one hundred. I think it's just the
way the networks are set up. They you know, they
can regulate them only I'm sure there's a plus or
minus a little bit on each side. And so what
are you able to do now? So what were you
not able to do before? And what can you do now?

Speaker 4 (10:46):
I had just a ton of dead spots throughout my
house and I work from home. My speeds were really slow.
I was dropping calls on my phone. So now I
hook up Wi Fi, you know, call on my phone too,
no issues, and we can you know, we can. I
can use my laptop, somebody else can be on the

(11:06):
computer and we just don't have any issues with any connection. Connectivity.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Isn't that Isn't that amazing? Because for so many years. Okay,
so here's how Wi Fi this was like the progression
of Wi Fi. First off, we get Wi Fi and
we're just like amazed that it works right. And then
all of a sudden we start to do all this
stuff and Wi Fi can't really keep up, and now
we hate Wi Fi because it never works right. And
now we're back to this world with these new systems
where Wi Fi is actually amazing. And when you have

(11:34):
one of these systems and you see how great your
internet connection can be everywhere, it really does open up
your mind again because you're like, oh, wait a second,
I can use my computer outside a little bit, you know,
outside my back door, or I can use this there.
I'm also looking at the ORB website and I like
how it has the ports on the back too. That's

(11:54):
something that you need to look at because when you're.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Shopping for we have our TV put plugged directly into
that too for that piece of it. So when we
use our smart TV, yeah, it runs much faster hardwire.
Oh yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
That is one benefit. Because the new some of the
on my eurosystem, they have these things called beacons, and
they actually ditched the Ethernet jacks on the back of those,
which I don't like because the original eros all had them.
So that is something to look out for if you're
if you're buying one of these systems, you know, think
about that you want to have an Ethernet port on
the back of these things, or at least some of them,

(12:29):
because you want to have that option. Like here in
my office, I do want a wired ethernet because sometimes
I need to plug in like a server or right
now my computer is plugged in hardwire. So that's just
one consideration to have. But the more you know about
these things, the better. So I'm glad to hear that
you like it. And did you set it up all
by yourself or what.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
I did it all by myself?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
How long did that take?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
And it's like probably fifteen twenty minutes and it was up.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And running, Debbie, I'd love to hear it. Well, I'm
glad that you called me and said you liked what
I recommended, and not not to call me and tell
me you hated what I recommended.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, yeah, thanks for your help and our family much easier.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
In the house, beautiful. Thanks so much for watching and
calling in again for the update. I do appreciate it. Debbie,
thanks so much. Wow, that's so cool. I love hearing
this stuff. So Wayne says that the euro Pro has
Ethernet jacks, which is good. Dominic says, what about Luma? Okay,
So here's the deal with Luma. That's the first one
that I purchased, and I bought it because Amazon backed

(13:29):
the company, and so I said, well, clearly they're going
to be around forever. And I haven't heard anything about
them ever since. So I had them for two years
or so and it was great. The system is great.
In fact, I've got it in a box and I'm
gonna bring it to my dad's place and I'm gonna
set it up at his house because he really needs
the internet connection there. So it is working. It's just
I just don't know what the deal is with Luma.

(13:51):
I haven't really heard much about that. So this weekend
is the big Mobile World Congress, which is happening in Barcelona, Spain.
I've actually never been to this show. I've been to
so many of these little tech shows all over the world.
Mobile World Congress I have not been to, which is crazy.
But it is one of these big tech shows and
they show off a lot of new phones. But here's

(14:13):
the thing. The problem with all of these tech shows
at this point is that Number one, a lot of
these tech companies will have meetings with you before, they
call them pre briefings, so I can meet with them
early and get the same information as going to Barcelona
without the trip. Now, don't get me wrong, I want
to go to Barcelona. It just so happened that this trip,

(14:34):
you know, kind of springs up on me. At KTLA,
there's certain times in the year when I don't like
to take any time to travel because we're in special
like right now, it's called SWEEPS, which means you kind
of want all hands on deck because it's a ratings
period at KTLA, so you want to be there every day.
So if I'm out traveling, that means that I'm not
in studio, and they don't like that, and neither do I.
That's just kind of the rule of thumb with SWEEPS.

(14:55):
So anyway, I'm not going. But here's the thing. We're
gonna see new cell phones in the next week or
so from Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, and perhaps BlackBerry, So
you got to keep an eye out for that news.
I know that I'm gonna have some news with Samsung
with their new phones, if you can believe it, their
new devices. We're already due for an upgrade on those,

(15:18):
so we've seen a lot of rumors online about that.
But we're supposed to hear I think they said it's
a twenty fifth is when we're gonna hear about Samsung. Yeah,
that's Sunday. So Sunday the twenty fifth is when we'll
hear about the Galaxy S nine, and I'm assuming S
nine plus LG they're gonna have a new phone. The
problem is, man, when it comes to phones, it has

(15:41):
really become a two horse race, like Apple and Samsung
commands so much to the market and everyone else is
just trying to get the scraps. But if I had
to recommend other phones that I'm really loving these days
outside of those two big powerhouse devices. Obviously, the Google
Pixel is great, but it's a very small device. It
only appeals to a certain amount of people. It's got

(16:02):
the best camera. But Motorola is doing really nice stuff
with their lineup of it's like the Z four or
something like that. They've got some really nice devices there.
And then LG I really we got to figure out
what's going on with them, because I was really disappointed
with their last phone, the G six, And hopefully they
will upgrade their camera and make things a little bit better.

(16:23):
I love the design of it. It's just other than that,
it was not that great. All right, phone line, it
is open three one zero five to nine four three
zero zero three three one zero five to nine four
three zero zero three. And Allison says, I loved my BlackBerry. Yes,
we all loved our Blackberries back in the day. MJ says, wow,
BlackBerry is making a comeback. And yes, they do have

(16:46):
a BlackBerry. It's called the key one that they came
out with last year, and I think they're gonna come
up with something this year again. And MJ says, wow,
is BlackBerry making a comeback? And Alison said, is pixel
really that great? Yes, it is great. It is. Here's
the deal, and this leads me to my next story. Actually,
the pixel is not just great. It is phenomenal, Like

(17:08):
I'm talking leaps and bounds ahead of any device that
I've ever tested when it comes to their camera. But
here's the secret of it. The camera is really not
that good. It's actually what Google is doing in the
background of processing your pictures, so I call them fake
pictures because they're so Google is actually using artificial intelligence

(17:31):
to affect them. So that's really what's happening with your picture.
So these other companies really have to catch up with that.
And I'm really talking about the low light pictures. That's
where it counts. All right, eight and eight you're on
with rich Who am I speaking with?

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Richard?

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Steve? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh Steve, I'm doing fantastic. Where are you calling from?

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Calling from the San Fernanda Valley up here North Hills?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
All right, awesome? What's on your Lineah?

Speaker 5 (17:56):
A few things. I mean, you've been talking to the
a couple folks about the the routers and modems. I
guess those are combined units. I assume yes, they received
the signal from the ISP and then do the do
the sharing throughout the house without having two devices, right?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, I mean you still need the you still need
kind of the modem, the cable modem that comes in
your house, so I mean you connect to that and
then yes, the router wireless can it handles everything else
from there?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
And I'm actually myself a Google pixel user.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
I mean, they know when I'm on the phone, how
good are the pictures?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Off?

Speaker 5 (18:35):
The pixel pictures are fantastic. I come from using Samsung
S three and then S five, and then I didn't
upgrade because I know S five was so good at
what it did, and then it just became time. The
S five was just you know, taking a dump and decided, okay,
well let's go see what's out there. And everybody was

(18:57):
going to USB three, so I had to make the
switch anyways, and or USBC, I mean the new charging thing.
So we went ahead and went with the Pixel. My
wife and I both have the same phone, and it
took you know, took me about ten minutes. And then
you know, learn that there's a couple of little different things,
but it's still an Android interface, so I'm used to that,

(19:19):
having never had an iPhone. And yeah, but I'm trying
to think about switching to either an integrated modem router
setup or because I don't want to pay the ISP
to lease or rent whatever it is the modem and
I have dead spots like you're talking about. I have
an extender in my living room because the router's back

(19:41):
in the office and my house is not that big.
But I'm trying to think, what's what's my next step
to upgrade my service? So I can, you know, stream
and watch videos and do hangouts from my garage which
is just on the other side of the kitchen wall.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah, I mean, these systems that we're talking about are
definitely going to help you do that. But now, who
do you have for your internet provider?

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Just Spectrum?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Okay? Now, they don't charge a rental fee anymore for
their modems.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
They don't. I haven't looked at my bill lately because
they don't send me one. It's just digital.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, as far as I know, and you may want
to check. Maybe you're on an old plan. I don't
know how long you've had it, but I've got Spectrum.
I switched last year from you Verse Verse. I did
pay a rental fee. This one. I do not pay
a rental fee, and as far as I know, they've
kind of mixed that into the price. So that's the
number one.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well, yeah, and my price went up too, so I
don't know what they what they're getting me for now.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, see what they're getting. I mean, I pay forty
five dollars a month. I signed up on a promotion
which is probably ending any day now because I signed
up about a year ago, so I think they want
it to go up to sixty five a month, which
I'll call them back and I'll just kind of ask,
you know, hey, can I get this promotion again? Because
where I live, right, you have a couple of providers
that I can choose from, so I can always switch

(20:55):
to a different one if the price is better, you know, right.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
And I kind of had that too, where my price
was about fifty bucks and I was getting fifty megabits
or whatever it is, and that was cool, and then
they tried to jump it up like double the price.
So I called and they said, okay, well we can
do one hundred for sixty or sixty five. And then
I ran that for a year and now I'm up
to ninety bucks and I don't I don't know if

(21:21):
I'm still getting one hundred or if I'm also getting
charged for the for the Router modem unit or I
don't know what's going on, but I got to take
a look at it, and, like you said, just call
them and say, hey, you know what happened to my
promotional price? What you got going today? Yes, exactly because
usually they do, right.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh yeah, and you know, and I did read an
article that said Spectrum was going to try to do
away with a lot of the promotions, like they're trying
to get a you know, because everyone knows as long
as I've had cable internet for you know, many many
years now, every year you call up and you get
a new deal. And I think Spectrum they had a
stat that like people were on like eighty thousand different
plans or something insane across the US. Oh geez. So

(21:59):
they did do a good job of kind of streamlining
the plans. So I do know that, like if you
call Spectrum, they have like one hundred or three hundred available,
that's basically it. But then the prices, they're trying to
make them so that they're pretty streamlined. So just call
them up and see what they say. That's that's what
i'd say. But yeah, when it comes to your cable modem,
you probably don't pay for that. But I would definitely
look into the Euros of the world or the Orbi's

(22:20):
of the world and see which one works for you.
And also just go on Amazon, read some of the reviews,
read some of the pros, and cons and see what
people like. But you're going to see a world of
difference with the Internet that you have. Like I say
to people, you're actually getting the Internet that you pay
for when you get one of these services. So Steve, yeah,
oh I lose you. So Steve, I think that that's

(22:44):
really where you're at. I think I've lost you. But
you got the gist there. John Gris says, is Google
Fiber worth it? Absolutely? If you can get Google Fiber
where you are, go for Google Fiber. As far as
I know, it's about seventy dollars seventy five dollars to
get that, but you get a gig down which is
ten times faster than what I have at home, which
is one hundred. Anastasia says, I pay over two hundred

(23:05):
for Cox TV and Internet. That sounds pretty typical for
you know, if you're if you're bundling products and services.
The problem is that like I found out with my
mom when I unbundled her Internet when I cut the
cord for her a couple of weeks ago, you know,
they wanted to charge me an astronomical rate for the
Internet alone, and I said, oh, come on, I'm not

(23:25):
doing that. That's insane. So you know, you got to
really really convince these people to give you the good
price because they're just gonna want to charge you a lot.
All right, Uh eight on eight you're on with Rich
for Oh Hi, Hey, who am I speaking with?

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Brian?

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Understand?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Hey Brian, where are you calling from?

Speaker 6 (23:45):
I'm calling from Terminoaks, California?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right, what's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (23:50):
I just wanted to see what his opinion is on
some of the tech hardware or apps out there that
are good for stuff on TVs, for social media, for
like nonprofits, promoting school events, stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Interesting, Well you're talking to me, so you're not. You're
it sounded like you were asking the call screener. There
there is none, it's just this is Rich.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Oh not cool? Hi Rich?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
So Brian, you're okay. So you're saying you want to
know what social apps are best for, like promoting school.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Things, apps or even stuff like I used to use
and I name a brand, a company or a product things.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, this is so.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
I've used the mebo camera before, okay, and I ran
into more problems than I did discover like positive uses
for it.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
Things like that things that I can use at live
events to promote things that happen on school campuses, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay, well, two things. So first off, the program that
I'm using is is called ECAM Live. And I don't
know if you see what I've got going on here,
but this is a one man show here, and I've
got graphics on screen. I have the ability to bring
in video if I want, so if I press this,
let's see what happens here? Come on, resume last or
here we go. So you see that. If you're watching

(25:06):
on the Facebook live stream, you can see that I
just brought in a video. And you guys that are
listening to obviously hear that as well. Let me stop
that point get back to where I am here. So anyway,
so that's one of the features I can bring in
my computer screen here. So if I want to show
you guys something on the web, I can do that.
And there's other things like I can bring in comments

(25:27):
from people live, which is really cool too. So that's
one thing that's called ECAM Live. I believe it's forty dollars.
They gave me a copy of the program I asked
them for. I said, hey, I'd love to use this
for my podcast. Can you give me a product of
you a copy to try? And they said sure, So
that's number one. Number two, I'd really recommend that you
use the Facebook Creator app on iPhone because here's the thing.

(25:51):
I've tried Mevo and Mivo's was cool. But Mivo is
good for like if you're doing a concert or if
you're just you kind of like a camera that's all
in one to broadcast something. But I'm using a webcam
along with this ECAM program. But the Mevo, I agree,
it was a little complicated for my use and hooking
things up to it, like external mics and stuff is

(26:12):
a little bit. It's just a little bit tricky for me.
It was a little bit more than I wanted. But
I would really recommend the Facebook Creator app. And I'll
tell you why. So right now, when you go live
through the Facebook Creator app, because they're trying to promote it.
I've noticed that when I go live through there, I
get more viewers. So that's one thing to think about

(26:32):
if you want to get the maximum exposure. The other
thing is that you can create graphics inside that program.
A lot of people don't know that, but you can
go into your Facebook page and create some graphics that
will show on screen when you go live from that.
So if you want to put your school logo or
something like that on there, you can have that built
right into your phone, which is really cool. You don't

(26:54):
have to do anything extra and with the iPhone, and
with the iPhone you can use external mics and stuff
like that pretty pretty easily.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
And that's all accessed through Facebook or do I need
to do one of the apps notes.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
To get into that, you've got to download a special
app called Facebook Creator. So it's a brand new app.
They just came out that it's only for iPhone right now,
but it will come out on Android hopefully soon. I
mean it's Android always seems to lag the iPhone apps,
but that's a that's a good one as well, so great. Yeah,
I would recommend those two things. If you're looking at

(27:26):
Facebook Live, there's a lot of other things out there
that kind of let you. I mean, if you want,
you can go YouTube live. The problem is everyone's on Facebook,
so that's really the best way to go live out
of all these services. There was one that my friend
Jefferson Graham from USA Today used and I got to
remember what it was smile Facebook Live. Let me see

(27:47):
what it was called. I don't know if I can
find it. Yeah, there was like a live streaming app,
but I can't remember what it was called anyway, So
there's another. There's a couple of that I've seen him try,
and you know, none of them are as good as
the I think the original app has just gotten so
good that it kind of like does everything you need

(28:09):
without having external apps. But this ECAM Live, I really
recommend you just run it off a MacBook and you're
good to go and you can do a lot of
great stuff with it, so perfect hopefully. Thank you answer
your question all right, Brian, thanks so much for calling in.
I appreciate it. Full line open three one zero five
nine four three zero zero three and uh, let's see
g And Carlos says, Hey, Rich, what app do I

(28:31):
use to pick someone in an Instagram giveaway on my
company's Instagram account? Thanks, that's a good question. I know
how to do it with my Facebook, but I'm not sure.
Oh yeah, it does it with Instagram, So the site
that I use, and you'll notice later on when I
do my giveaway. If you're watching on the live show
I use a site called wu box woo Box wu Box,

(28:53):
and that will help you choose a winner on Instagram.
I have not done that personally, but I see it
as an option in my behind the scenes kind of
in my tool deck whatever you want to call it. Here,
I see that, So that's another way to do it.
And Steven says the TV behind me has turned off.
I know, and I can turn it back on, but

(29:13):
it's not really going to do anything, because yeah, it's
just it's I had the graphic. I got to figure
out how to get my graphic to stay up on
there for some reason. Let's talk about pixel versus iPhone.
So this is a great article. This was written on
the Verge, and basically the author is saying how he

(29:34):
is gripped by a constant fear of choosing the iPhone
ten versus the Google Pixel two xcel. And I really
identify with this because I feel the same way. I
absolutely love my Pixel to xcel, but I also love
the iPhone ten. And I'm telling you it's really a
problem because when you're a tech reviewer, you get access

(29:56):
to a lot of different things, so you get exposed
to them, and it's just he wrote all about it,
like the pros and cons of each one, basically saying
how beautiful the iPhone is, which it is, and the
notch is a non issue, but the pixels, camera, and
battery life are just unbelievable, which I agree. Battery I
never think of on the pixel, and the camera is

(30:17):
just phenomenal. But when I think about the two devices,
it really comes down to this. Here's what I've decided.
And number two, I love the Apple Watch as well,
and that's a nice companion to iPhone. But here's what
I've realized. The iPhone is better as a creator's device
and as a casual user's device. So it does everything
you need, but it's very casual. It's super simple, everything works.

(30:39):
You don't even need to download apps if you don't
want to, because it's got so many great things built in,
editing and all that stuff. But when it comes to
the pixel, it really comes down to the camera. And
it's a great personal assistant because Google Assistant is so
amazing at voice commands, and also the information that surfaces
using Google Feed is really amazing. I agree, I'm right

(31:00):
with you there. The Verge I have the same anxiety,
but I love it He calls it the tragic anxiety
of having to choose, and I agree. We live in
an amazing time right now, because we are in a
time where smartphones have gotten so good that you're choosing
between two amazing devices. And if you don't even want
to spend that much on a pixel Orn iPhone ten,

(31:21):
I can give you five other devices that are just
as good, like the one plus five T. That device
is not even that expensive when you look at it
compared to Let's see, let's see how much that is
when you look at it compared to some of these
big devices. This device is a lot cheaper. And let's
see how much that is. Five hundred and fifty nine bucks,

(31:42):
So five hundred dollars if you want for six gigs
a RAM and sixty four storage. Five point fifty nine
for one hundred and twenty eight gigs of RAM and
eight gigs of storage, and that phone is amazing. So
that is a fantastic device as well. Jim says, I
love the delayed double TI from Rich. Uh oh, what
does that mean? Am I? Are you hearing me? Double?

(32:04):
That's not good? What are the qualities Jamie says for
a good laptop, just for at home use. If you're
getting a laptop just for home, don't get a laptop,
get a desktop, Get an all in one. Go to Costco.
Usually they have one for about five hundred bucks. That
is phenomenal. It's totally specked out. You do not need
a laptop if your computer is gonna sit on a

(32:27):
desk at home all the time. Guess what. Laptops are
super expensive for what you get. Yes, you can buy
one for three four hundred bucks two hundred and fifty dollars.
But the reality is you don't want to use that
as your everyday computer unless you have a use case
for a laptop. A laptop is meant to go out
in the world. So if you're just getting a computer

(32:47):
for your desk to sit right here, don't get yourself
a laptop. You're spending way too much money and not
getting enough device for that money. So, yeah, Debbie says,
I like to take my laptop with me. I take
my laptop everywhere. And if you've listened to this show,
you know that my kid recently threw a toy at

(33:09):
my laptop and cracked the screen. It costs me five
hundred dollars to get it repair. But I will say
Apple did the repair very fast. Sam from Pomona. You're
on with Rich what's up? Sam? Hey?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
How's it going good?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
How are you doing? How are those Porsche is treating you? Hey?

Speaker 3 (33:26):
No complaints? Always a good time. Earlier, you guys were
talking about, you know, like the spectrum is changing, they're
not charging for the modems and things like that. I've
been with them for a long time, and when my
program ran out, basically you know when Charter Bottom, you

(33:49):
guys on KTLA mentioned that they wouldn't be you know,
like giving you the deals that Time Warner Cable used to,
and they didn't, and I cut the cable and so
I was down to home phone and the internet, and
they had me paying sixty five for internet and twenty

(34:11):
bucks for phone. And I recently called them to disconnect
the phone because I now have a cell phone that
I don't need the home phone. And now they're making deals,
but you got to ask for the retention department to
get them.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
So you're saying ask, Okay, you know that's a good point, Sam,
because that's funny. You say that because when I called
to cancel my mom's cable just because she had the
She had internet, cable TV, and phone line.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
She hasn't used the phone line in ten years since
I got our cell phone. The cable TV, she had
literally twelve channels plus Showtime, which they gave her showtime
for free. I was like, Mom, how many movies are
you watching on Showtime? Not many, but she had channels
two through twelve. She lives out in New Jersey, so
it was a little different than here, but she had
basic cable. And then when I called to cancel, you're

(34:59):
absolutely right, they said, this is the price. It was
like eighty five dollars for just the internet, when she
was paying eighty for all three of these things, right,
And so I said, all right, well, transferming to the
person that cancels it. And she said, okay, transferming to
the person that cancels. That first question was, hey, we
can do everything for forty five bucks a month. I'm like,
why didn't you say that before? So you're right, you
do have to ask for the retention department. Sam. That

(35:21):
is a great point because the customer service reps really
don't have the power. And I'm not saying that as
a knock on them. They're physically not empowered to do
the things the retention department does because that's their job
and that's how they keep people there. So they are
empowered with better deals and better codes to get people
to stay.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Right, Well, I think they're finally feeling the pressure of
all the competition.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well I know, but you say that, but really, what
is the competition out there? I mean it's tough because
with cable TV, I get it, you got the streaming
services breathing down their back. But when it comes to Internet,
most people only have one, maybe two different service providers,
and one of them is usually pretty bad because it's
DSL or it's just not as fast. And so of
course the internet companies that are the cable companies that

(36:11):
are providing Internet always have the advantage because they have
the fastest speeds, so they kind of know, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
I was gonna move over to Frontier because they have
the old horizon of FiOS. And what happened was is
they scheduled, you know, to make the switch. But unlike
I guess, you know, like Spectrum now, somebody has to
leave their system to make room for you to get on.

(36:36):
So you know, they had me all scheduled. Everything was
supposed to happen. But then I called up and I said, Hey,
what's going on. They go, oh, we don't have any room.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Really, yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
I couldn't believe it's.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, it could be a capacity thing, because here's the deal.
They they spent many years building out those systems, like
you're talking about FiOS. But the problem is they only
built them out so far. And you're probably right, they
literally because each one of those is connected to a home.
So if they have the if they don't have the
capacity in the neighborhood. Like let's say there's thirty nodes
and thirty people are signed up, you're right, they don't

(37:13):
have the capacity. That's interesting. I didn't realize that they
actually turned people away, but that's fascinating.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Yeah, I mean I was pretty upset, you know, And
so I'm stuck with the you know, a spectrum because
there's really nobody else in my neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
And how much you're paying now when all the dust
has come.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, like I say, I called up and I'm getting
the one hundred speed internet and I'm getting the home
phone for sixty five bucks, which is okay, Yeah, that's
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
I mean, like I said, I'm paying forty five on
my just for one hundred, but I don't have a
phone line and amount of promotion, and they want to
jump it up to sixty five. So you're basically getting
the phone line free, depending on how you look at it.
But for everyone that's listening, you know, if you're paying,
if you haven't called your cable company in the past year,
you gotta call him up and just say, hey, look,

(38:02):
I'm ready to jump ship here, what can you do
for me? And ask for that retention department.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
I went to a friend's house who also has what
I had, and I looked at him and go, let's
get him on the phone. And I did the same
thing for him.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
And now, yeah, that's your good friend, Sam, you are
a good friend. All right. Listen, I've got a couple
questions to answer here on the on the live chat,
but thanks so much for calling in. I appreciate it
as you as always good talking dude. All right, Sam,
take care and keep those porsches. Sam collects cars, so
he sent me a couple of pictures of them, and
he keeps me pretty shiny, all right. Kathy says, is

(38:37):
it possible to edit a video I've taken on my
iPad or iPhone and if so, how do I do it? Absolutely,
that is, Kathy, one of the best features of the
iPhone and iPad. You do not need a computer. In fact,
a lot of the stuff that you see me post
to Facebook, I am editing right on my smartphone or
not so much my iPad, but you can do it there,
but right on my iPhone. And sometimes I'm i Android. Android, Wait,

(39:01):
just doesn't you can do it. It's just not as
good as iPhone when it comes to editing stuff. And
I'm not trying to knock Android. I love Android, but
it's just not there. And I'll tell you why. There's
a thousand different Android models out there that these developers
have to make their app work with, and that's really
tough to do, so it ends up not being that good.

(39:22):
But Apple, there's literally like one set of standards and
it works on all these devices and so they don't
have to think about tweaking their app for all these
different scenarios. And that's why apps usually function better on iOS. Now,
I know there's gonna be some of you Android nerds
out there that will debate me on that. Yes, I
think that sometimes Android apps work better in a let's see,

(39:44):
how can I say this in a performance way where
you can share things easier and it can integrate with
the operating system better when it comes to pure functionality.
A lot of times, that's why you see the updates
on iOS first. But a couple options for you, I'll
tell you what I like. Yeah, And we have some
people chiming in on the live saying that you can
use iMovie. That's one way. I find iMovie to be

(40:05):
very complicated, especially on the smartphone, so I don't use
that one. I actually use an app called video Shop,
which is really good. But my favorite app for editing
is Adobe Clip. So you can download that for free
and you will be amazed what you can do on
Adobe Clip. I'm trying to find my iPhone here it
is to look at my apps I use. But Adobe
Clip is amazing and that's the one that I use

(40:26):
almost all the time. But Video Shop is really good,
and I think that one's like one or two dollars,
And I'm trying to see what else I have on
here that I use. But that's it, I mean, that's
really what you need are those two apps. You will
get through a lot of stuff. But yeah, fantastic question, Kathy,
that is a good one. Let's see here, we've got

(40:46):
a lot of Manny says, what pair of headphones are
the best that you've had or think are the best
when getting a new phone. Oh man, you know what,
I'll be honest, I'm just not a headphones guy, so
I will just use the Apple ones or the ones
that come in the package. I love. These are from
a Samsung device. I love these, and I love the
Apple the Apple earbuds, those to me are the best. Now,

(41:10):
if you want Bluetooth, I'll tell you which ones I like.
Their JLab Epic two. I'm typing this in and I'm
gonna show you guys here. But these j lab Epic
twos are fantastic. And let's see if they even know
they have new ones. I guess, but these are these
are my favorite. They're just so I tested so many

(41:30):
of them and these were really really good. So if
you go to j lab Epic two is there are
a hundred bucks. You can get them for cheaper online,
I think. But those are the ones that I love.
They the battery last forever, they stayin in your ears.
They're Bluetooth wireless, So check those out on Amazon. Let's
see how much they're going for on Amazon. Let's see

(41:51):
Epic Amazon. Let's see how much they are Epic two
on Amazon are Oh, they're not available anymore. Oh no,
that means that they've changed them up, so there must
be a new version. Let's see what it says. It
doesn't say anything about a new version. Interesting, so I
don't know. Maybe they've done away with those, so I

(42:13):
don't know. You're gonna have to find something else. But
when it comes to wireless for expensive, definitely, the AirPods
are my favorite. Don't go with the pixel buds from Google.
I don't really like them as much. All right, let's see.
Oh my gosh, you guys have a lot of questions here.
Let's see. Yolini says, Yeah, Lanni says, just check my

(42:35):
spectrum bill. They're charging me for the modem lease. I
will be calling the retention department later. Yeah. I think
you're on an old plan, so definitely call them up.
Noel says, is the Ring Home security a good investment? Yes?
I love the Ring. Definitely put it by your front door,
and if you can hardwire it, that's the best. But
if you can use it on a battery. That's fine
as well. It will work just as well. And gen

(42:57):
Carlo says Adobe Premier Clip is also availab on Android.
Yes it is. I do use it on Android as well.
John says, thanks for the recommendation, and Anthony says, is
it okay for me to use my old Samsung wireless
charging for my iPhone X? Yes? The wireless chargers are
gonna work pretty much with all the different devices at
this point. It may not be the optimized charge for

(43:20):
your device, but it's not gonna ruin your device, so yes,
you can use it. As long as it charges up,
it will be okay. Nora says, I love your helpful information.
Is iPhone SE two worth the wait? Or should I
get the first version? I probably wait for the new one.
The first one has been around, although let me think
about that. They just came out with the new version
recently at the event where they launched the iPhone. I

(43:43):
think they refreshed the specs on it. So whenever that's happening,
I always go to mac rumors. There's a thing called
Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com and s iPhone SE.
It's been three hundred and thirty eight days since they
last released one. Yes, that's almost a year. In Apple cycles,
that's when they usually like to release a new one.

(44:05):
But yeah, that's that's it. So Robert says, what's your
take on magnetic charging cables? You know, I don't know.
I mean, if they it's great if you if it
works and you have it, but I don't. I don't
seek them out. They did away with it on my MacBook,
which was really annoying because I loved my my mag

(44:25):
safe all right, phone lines open three one zero five
to nine four three zero zero three three one zero
five nine four three zero zero three. According to Recode,
Amazon is opening up to six more of their Amazon
Go cashier list stores in the next year or so.
I don't know, but one of them apparently is gonna

(44:47):
be in Los Angeles and so they don't really have
many details. This is all rumors, but they are saying
that this is going to be at the Grove, which
if you live in LA you know where the Grove is.
It's kind of in the middle of town. Well would
you call that downtown? I don't know. It's in the
middle of Hollywood. It's it's south of Hollywood. I guess
you can say, but it's kind of this grand outdoor

(45:10):
shopping area. But the weird thing is, I don't really
understand why they put an Amazon Go there, that this
is basically a grocery store, and I don't really see
that being a grocery store now. What I do see
is them Okay, so the grocery by the way, if
you're not familiar, how this works, the Amazon Go store.

(45:30):
You go inside, you scan a QR code at the
entrance with your Amazon app, and it links you up
into the store, and then whenever you pull off the shelf,
it somehow registers that and then you walk out of
the store and it charges your Amazon account. Pretty brilliant, right,
people are They already have this in Seattle. This is
not a far fetched idea. It's literally happening in Seattle
as we speak. But they want to open a bunch

(45:53):
more of these. These are convenience stores, grocery stores, whatever
you want to call them. But I just don't understand
and why they would put this at the Grove. They
don't really have a grocery store there. You don't really
go grocery shopping at the Grove, So I don't really
see this working now, I do see an Amazon bookstore,
and I can understand maybe they're going to open up

(46:14):
in Amazon Books that has this go technology, but I'm
not sure because they already have a Barnes and Noble
at the Grove unless it's closed. Last I checked. I mean,
let's see if it's still there the Grove. So it
seems like the Grove Barnes and Noble is still open,
so that's good news. I noticed a couple weeks ago

(46:35):
they closed the Barnes and Noble that was at the
Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. That was a big one,
So I don't know, kind of a weird location. I
definitely would not go grocery shopping at the Grove if
you've ever been in that area. The traffic around there
is absolutely horrendous. Ever since the Grove opened, it's really
done phenomenal for that area of Los Angeles. I guess
you'd called Central La, but it is. It is somewhere

(46:58):
you don't want to be hanging out, and if you
bunch of groceries to lug, you do not want to
be there. Three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. If you have a question, I'll take probably
one more before I go, So get your phone call in.
Now we're talking about headphones, and it looks like apparently
Apple is going to upgrade the AirPods. And air pods

(47:20):
are absolutely one of my favorite gadget inventions ever because
they are the first wireless headphones that just sort of
work every single time. I've had these things for about
a year and I don't even think I've ever charged them,
like maybe twice, because the battery just lasts forever. And
here's the deal. So the rumor is, according to Bloomberg,
this is Mark German. He has all the inside scoob

(47:41):
on everything Apple. I mean, he's got some kind of
good contacts there that tell him everything. So that Bloomberg
actually hired this guy. He used to work at a
blog and they hired him because he knows so much
at Apple. So he's got some good friends there. He
says that they're going to upgrade the AirPods this year
with an upgraded wireless chip. So the upgraded wireless chip
would give you one key feature, and that is Hey Siri,

(48:04):
So that would allow you to basically like, for me,
while I'm running, I've got to tap the side of
the headphones to you know, say, can you increase the
volume by ten percent or skip to the next song.
This would just let you say, hey, Siri, increase the
volume by ten percent, and it would, which is really cool.
It's very useful. That's what the pixel No, the pixel
buds don't do that. You gotta tap them, you know what.

(48:25):
I gotta check on that actually. Anyway, Now, a new
version later on, not this year, is gonna be waterproof
or water resistant, I should say survive splashes of water
and rain. They will not be submerged in water. So
if you've been following what Apple has been doing, the
iPhone is water resistant, which means it can get splashed,

(48:46):
it can be out in the rain, will be just fine.
But the Apple Watch is water proof, which means you
can take it in the pool and it will handle
it like a champ and you're gonna be okay, which
is pretty pretty phenomenal because basically you are pushing your
hands into the water, which forces water into the device.
Which all these devices when they say they're water resistant,

(49:07):
they say that for a reason because there's still open
ports on them. And if you push this thing into
water like that, that means that you're forcing water into
the device, and it's gonna get in there, whether it's
water resistant or not. Now with the Apple Watch, they
made it water proof, which means they did a lot
of testing to make sure that they can still have
some open ports on it, notably the speaker grill, and

(49:28):
still have it basically locked up tight with the water.
All right, Kathy says, I'm looking for Adobe Chip on
my iPhone and I can't find it. That's because it's
Adobe clip. Adobe Chip sounds very tasty, but that is
not an app that you can edit video on. It
is Adobe Clip, so if you type in Adobe clip,
you can get it. And Cindy says, do you know

(49:50):
when the new EarPods are coming out? The article does
not say it, just says this year. But if you
think about it, let's go back to that website. I
don't know if it. I'm not sure. Let's see if
that website has the AirPods. Let's see if they have accessories,
they have HomePod. I don't see the accessories. Let's see.
Let's see watch other Now they don't have the AirPods

(50:11):
on there. But it's been a while. They've been out,
I think for about almost a year and a half
now two years, so they're definitely due for an upgrade.
Let's see, and Al says, is the iPhone ten getting discontinued?
Are they coming out with a new version? How many
new iPhones is Apple going to release at their next event?
You know, here's the thing. When they say discontinued, what

(50:33):
does that really mean? I mean, they're not going to
discontinue it. The iPhone ten is the iPhone ten, So
will it be replaced with a new model eventually? Yes?
Are they making less of them? Apparently if you believe
everything you read. But the reality is the design of
the iPhone I don't think is going to change with
the next iPhone. It's going to be very similar to
what we have with the iPhone ten. They might do

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away with a notch, but I think that that's gonna
be the design of the iPhone. Yes, the ten might be.
I don't really understand what we discontinued means, because they've
discontinued things like when they came out with the Apple
Watch three, they discontinued Apple Watch two. That just means
they stopped making it and now they have the three,
But they did keep making the one. And Apple's known

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to do that all the time kind of forces you
to choose between something that's kind of less or lesser
or the best. They kind of don't have stuff in
the middle. It's kind of weird now they have the
most phones ever to choose from, though there's so many
to choose from. All right, I think that's gonna do
it for the show. So yes, MJ says I can't
find Adobe Clip, but there's Premiere Clip. Yes, that's the

(51:35):
name of the app. When you download it, it just
says clip, but yes, Adobe Premiere Clip is the full
name of the app. Sorry for not being more clear
on that, but that will definitely do it. So all right,
Angie says I'm dying. Oh no, what are you dying about?
What I say? Wrong? Maybe I messed up on something,
but there you go. That's what it is. Oh you're
dying because I said chip not clip. I don't know.

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And finally, Anthony says, what do you think about the
DJI mave Air. It looks pretty cool. I have not
played with it, but I played with the Mavick and
it was very nice. DGI is really killing it when
it comes to kind of like their products and their
drones and their camera gear. They're doing a good job,
given GoPro a run for their money. In fact, you know,
GoPro closed down their drone division, so the DGI definitely

(52:20):
took over in that. And I love the DJI. I've
got it over here on my shelf here. But my
company gave me their mount, which is a gyro mount
for the iPhone so you can get your iPhone really steady.
It's called the DGI Osmo, and they just came out
the Osmo two, and that one's supposed to be even
better because you can now have your phone up and

(52:41):
down instead of just this way. But anyway, all right,
Jim says, what kind of antivirus do you have on
your computer? I use a VAST and I love it.
I recommend a VAST. I have a Mac. I'm I
don't really have any antivirus on there, so I know
I'm kind of crazy like that. I used to have
a VAST on there when I did. In fact, I
just need to. I did have to format my computer recently,

(53:03):
so I'll probably put that back on. But AVG and
a VAST, there's one I liked better. I can't remember
which one it is, but they're both the same company anyway,
So but one I like slightly better. Yenni says, how
can I keep Windows PC safe if I don't buy antivirus?
The good news is antivirus is built into the new
version of Windows. So if you have Windows ten, just

(53:25):
make sure that Windows Defender is up to date, and
I'll show you this Windows Defender that is that's built in.
It's built into Windows ten, so you don't need anything else.
You actually don't need to spend any money on antivirus.
As long as you have this turned on and up
to date, you're good. Your device is protected. So a
lot of people don't realize that when it comes to

(53:47):
Windows ten, but antivirus and malware is malware. Defender is
built right into the computer, So just make sure that
you have that kind of up to date. Go ahead
and search for Windows Defender on your search bar and
you can find it and check out the settings on there.
All right, Yes, Max are susceptible to viruses, but they
don't have as many. And I'm kind of I know

(54:08):
kind of what I'm doing online when I'm when I'm
downloading stuff and all that, so I kind of know
where I would get a virus. I use all my
emails all web based, so I can't really get a
virus there, so you just have to be smart about it.
But i'd probably recommend I can't really say I recommend
you have antivirus on if you have a Mac, but
it's probably good to have if you're a casual user
and you know you're surfing the web and downloading stuff

(54:30):
once in a while. But on a Windows computer, you've
got it. If you've got Windows ten, all right, that's
gonna do it for the show. Thanks so much for listening.
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