April 24, 2025 • 8 mins
Rich DeMuro speaks with Mendte in the Morning about the Mac cracking down on password sharing and Instagrams newest video editing app.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mich Tomorrow from rich On Tech has heard Sunday nights
from eight to eleven pm on woor at rich On
Tech on Instagram if you want to talk to them directly.
And rich was just at a Roco event in the city,
a Roku event in the city. And you know, rich,
I never have used Roku. Is it worth it?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, you know it's funny because I I was talking
with a bunch of people at the event yesterday, and
for some reason, Roku is the only streaming platform that
people actually love, like they talk about their Roku like
they really enjoy the experience Versus if you have an
Apple TV or a fire TV stick or a Google
you don't really say I love it. So people really
(00:43):
do like it because I think it was built for
streamers from the guy who started it back in two
thousand and two, because you just want an easier way
to watch streaming shows.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't want to make this a Roku commercial. But
how is it different than Apple TV or the Firestick.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, I think you know a couple of their features,
like their universal search makes it really easy, their universal
watch list. I think those are the main things that
people like about it. Plus pretty much all of the
apps are available, and they also have a lot of
free content, and we know that free streaming is kind
of the biggest growing area of streaming and Roku offers
a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So what were they doing yesterday? I mean, what did
you learn about Roku that you didn't know before, or
what new things are they offering.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, they've got two new sticks and you know these things.
I said to Roku, I said, when do people need
to replace these things because they sort of last forever
and they said, yeah, we have people running devices ten
years old that are still getting updates. I said, yeah,
so you know, if your stick is slow, if it's
not working that well, these new sticks are their smallest ever,
so you can plug them in behind your TV. They
(01:50):
don't block any other HDMI ports, which is nice. And
here's the key part. They're now power efficient, so you
don't need to run an extra power cable. They are
powered through the USB port on the back of your TV,
which is something that didn't work before. So basically self contained.
They start at thirty dollars and people seem to like
(02:10):
to bring these on vacations and trips. They plug them
into their TV and their hotel room and that makes
it really easy to do because again the self contained
nature of the power, and then the remote control they upgraded.
Even on the basic sticks that start at thirty dollars,
the remote control now controls the TV power and the volume,
which was kind of like a big thing people were
asking for. And finally voice control they added that on
(02:34):
these inexpensive sticks. So it's just a nice package starting
at thirty dollars forty dollars if you want four K.
They come out on May sixth.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Speaking of streaming services, and speaking of a lot of services,
one of the things that these companies try to crack
down on is password sharing. And I know from myself.
I know I get messages all the time about someone's
using my account and they're in my house. It's a
huge problem.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Isn't it well for us? Because now you can't share
with your friends and family anymore. It's a a I
mean for us, it was very convenient because in the
growth period, all the streaming services didn't really care, right,
they just wanted as many eyeballs as possible. But now
that this market has matured, Netflix really went in and said,
(03:23):
you know what, hey, if you want to add that
extra person you got to pay eight bucks a month.
Disney did the same thing. Now Max is doing the
same thing, so eight dollars a month. If you have
a klingon on your account, an extra member, someone that's
outside your household, the next time they log in, it
may say, hey, do you want to claim this account
as your own? And that's what they're doing. They know
(03:44):
they know when someone is logging into your account that
is not part of your household. They can tell when
you're logging in from you know, Kansas ninety nine percent
of the time, and all of a sudden, someone logs
in for Maine. They know it's your kid off at school.
So they're going to start cracking down on that. So
if you see the message from Mac, like I say
on my radio show, the free ride is over.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I love this next story about Instagram because I thought
that was always a problem with Instagram that you had
to edit the video before you got on there. But
now you can edit it on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, they have a new app, so there is so
a lot of people that are like sort of Instagram
power users. They are using an app called cap cut right,
and we know that's owned by TikTok. Not everyone likes
the idea of that. But now Instagram and Instagram didn't
like the idea either because, like you said, they had
their own built in video editing tools in the app,
but they were very rudimentary. Now they have a brand
(04:38):
new app. It is called Clips. It's available for iOS
and Android. It's a standalone editing app that's completely free,
and it's for anyone who wants to you know, up
things a bit, you know what I mean, like make
their reels and stories and shorts look a little bit
better than the rest. You've got templates, you've got effects,
you've got those captions that everyone uses. And while capcut
(05:00):
may charge for some of these features, Clips is free,
So go and download it. I have not used it
just yet to make a video, but I'll try it
out soon. I mean I tried it, but not for
a video yet.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I love that you take request, Rich because I know
that you added a story just for me, Because I've
seen all of these photo apps online. They're advertised constantly
and they look amazing. They can take a picture and
they can take out all the flaws, they can create
new backgrounds. It is amazing, and they do it with AI.
(05:31):
But I don't trust any of them. Right now, I
wanted to hear from you which one I should get.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, there are, I mean, there's so many. If you
want just one app where you can drop a picture
in and you don't even have to tap a button,
it just instantly cleans it up. This is the one
that I used ninety nine percent of the time. It's
called Radiant Photo and it's available for iOS and Android. Yes,
all these apps, any photo app like you mentioned that
are advertised they're going to try to push you to
(05:57):
an expensive, pricey subscription. Look for the little x in
the upper right hand or upper left hand corner. Ninety
nine percent of the time, you can use basic functionality
of these apps for free. Don't even sign up for
the free trial unless you want to, you know, support
the developer. But Radiant Photo is excellent. That's going to
brighten up your pictures. It understands what's in the picture,
(06:18):
and you literally don't have to do a thing. So
that's my number one. If you want something that's a
little bit higher end, remedy r E m I NI.
This uses AI to enhance your photos. And again it's
a one tap AI enhance. I think I look like
that airbrushed effect, like your skin is almost too perfect.
But if you want something like that, remedy will do it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And so some of these were they made you thinner,
they changed your hair. They it's incredible what they can
do with AI.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh yeah, I mean, and you could use chetchipt to
do those things too. But I mean the appse that's
been out there forever is called face Tune. That's really
when you want to say, Okay, I want whiter teeth,
I want to change my hairstyle, well, I want to
sin my you know, my mid section something like that.
You know, all these this stuff has been around for
a while. I try. I'm a little bit of a
purist with my pictures. I try to keep them almost
(07:12):
true to life. But yes, I've played with a bunch
of these. I will tell you. Samsung phones, the built
in photo gallery has the best AI editor on a
smartphone I've ever seen. I'm not kidding, Larry. You can
put your hand in front of your face. It will
remove your hand and fill in the rest of your face.
I don't even know how it does that. And I
(07:32):
don't mind the free botox from the app, so bring
it on. I mean, people like that Now, if you
want something really simple, there's an app called touch retouch.
If you just want to kind of get a blemish
out of there something, you can just use that to
get like a blemish off or something. Maybe there's a
stain on your shirt. You can use that. But I
(07:54):
use a combination of all of these different apps. I
use an app called pixart if I want to put
a picture into instant that doesn't fit. It's really good
for cropping or fitting a photo into like a square.
That's really great. Oh and then one more, if you're
trying to post something and it might have personal information
on it, you want to you know, block that out right.
So there's an app on the web it's called Redact
(08:17):
dot Photo, and you upload the picture and it blurs
it perfectly and it's all done privately in your browser.
And it's a great way don't share the pictures. Would
like the you know blocked out like mark up on
your phone because people have been found where they can
actually erase that and see what's underneath there.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Sometimes, Wow, that's a lot. Rich DeMuro rich on Tech
has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on
wr rich On Tech at Instagram. It's at rich on
Tech on Instagram if you want to ask him a question.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larry, having a great weekend.
Mich Tomorrow from rich On Tech has heard Sunday nights
from eight to eleven pm on woor at rich On
Tech on Instagram if you want to talk to them directly.
And rich was just at a Roco event in the city,
a Roku event in the city. And you know, rich,
I never have used Roku. Is it worth it?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, you know it's funny because I I was talking
with a bunch of people at the event yesterday, and
for some reason, Roku is the only streaming platform that
people actually love, like they talk about their Roku like
they really enjoy the experience Versus if you have an
Apple TV or a fire TV stick or a Google
you don't really say I love it. So people really
(00:43):
do like it because I think it was built for
streamers from the guy who started it back in two
thousand and two, because you just want an easier way
to watch streaming shows.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't want to make this a Roku commercial. But
how is it different than Apple TV or the Firestick.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, I think you know a couple of their features,
like their universal search makes it really easy, their universal
watch list. I think those are the main things that
people like about it. Plus pretty much all of the
apps are available, and they also have a lot of
free content, and we know that free streaming is kind
of the biggest growing area of streaming and Roku offers
a lot of it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
So what were they doing yesterday? I mean, what did
you learn about Roku that you didn't know before, or
what new things are they offering.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, they've got two new sticks and you know these things.
I said to Roku, I said, when do people need
to replace these things because they sort of last forever
and they said, yeah, we have people running devices ten
years old that are still getting updates. I said, yeah,
so you know, if your stick is slow, if it's
not working that well, these new sticks are their smallest ever,
so you can plug them in behind your TV. They
(01:50):
don't block any other HDMI ports, which is nice. And
here's the key part. They're now power efficient, so you
don't need to run an extra power cable. They are
powered through the USB port on the back of your TV,
which is something that didn't work before. So basically self contained.
They start at thirty dollars and people seem to like
(02:10):
to bring these on vacations and trips. They plug them
into their TV and their hotel room and that makes
it really easy to do because again the self contained
nature of the power, and then the remote control they upgraded.
Even on the basic sticks that start at thirty dollars,
the remote control now controls the TV power and the volume,
which was kind of like a big thing people were
asking for. And finally voice control they added that on
(02:34):
these inexpensive sticks. So it's just a nice package starting
at thirty dollars forty dollars if you want four K.
They come out on May sixth.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Speaking of streaming services, and speaking of a lot of services,
one of the things that these companies try to crack
down on is password sharing. And I know from myself.
I know I get messages all the time about someone's
using my account and they're in my house. It's a
huge problem.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Isn't it well for us? Because now you can't share
with your friends and family anymore. It's a a I
mean for us, it was very convenient because in the
growth period, all the streaming services didn't really care, right,
they just wanted as many eyeballs as possible. But now
that this market has matured, Netflix really went in and said,
(03:23):
you know what, hey, if you want to add that
extra person you got to pay eight bucks a month.
Disney did the same thing. Now Max is doing the
same thing, so eight dollars a month. If you have
a klingon on your account, an extra member, someone that's
outside your household, the next time they log in, it
may say, hey, do you want to claim this account
as your own? And that's what they're doing. They know
(03:44):
they know when someone is logging into your account that
is not part of your household. They can tell when
you're logging in from you know, Kansas ninety nine percent
of the time, and all of a sudden, someone logs
in for Maine. They know it's your kid off at school.
So they're going to start cracking down on that. So
if you see the message from Mac, like I say
on my radio show, the free ride is over.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I love this next story about Instagram because I thought
that was always a problem with Instagram that you had
to edit the video before you got on there. But
now you can edit it on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, they have a new app, so there is so
a lot of people that are like sort of Instagram
power users. They are using an app called cap cut right,
and we know that's owned by TikTok. Not everyone likes
the idea of that. But now Instagram and Instagram didn't
like the idea either because, like you said, they had
their own built in video editing tools in the app,
but they were very rudimentary. Now they have a brand
(04:38):
new app. It is called Clips. It's available for iOS
and Android. It's a standalone editing app that's completely free,
and it's for anyone who wants to you know, up
things a bit, you know what I mean, like make
their reels and stories and shorts look a little bit
better than the rest. You've got templates, you've got effects,
you've got those captions that everyone uses. And while capcut
(05:00):
may charge for some of these features, Clips is free,
So go and download it. I have not used it
just yet to make a video, but I'll try it
out soon. I mean I tried it, but not for
a video yet.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I love that you take request, Rich because I know
that you added a story just for me, Because I've
seen all of these photo apps online. They're advertised constantly
and they look amazing. They can take a picture and
they can take out all the flaws, they can create
new backgrounds. It is amazing, and they do it with AI.
(05:31):
But I don't trust any of them. Right now, I
wanted to hear from you which one I should get.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, there are, I mean, there's so many. If you
want just one app where you can drop a picture
in and you don't even have to tap a button,
it just instantly cleans it up. This is the one
that I used ninety nine percent of the time. It's
called Radiant Photo and it's available for iOS and Android. Yes,
all these apps, any photo app like you mentioned that
are advertised they're going to try to push you to
(05:57):
an expensive, pricey subscription. Look for the little x in
the upper right hand or upper left hand corner. Ninety
nine percent of the time, you can use basic functionality
of these apps for free. Don't even sign up for
the free trial unless you want to, you know, support
the developer. But Radiant Photo is excellent. That's going to
brighten up your pictures. It understands what's in the picture,
(06:18):
and you literally don't have to do a thing. So
that's my number one. If you want something that's a
little bit higher end, remedy r E m I NI.
This uses AI to enhance your photos. And again it's
a one tap AI enhance. I think I look like
that airbrushed effect, like your skin is almost too perfect.
But if you want something like that, remedy will do it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And so some of these were they made you thinner,
they changed your hair. They it's incredible what they can
do with AI.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Oh yeah, I mean, and you could use chetchipt to
do those things too. But I mean the appse that's
been out there forever is called face Tune. That's really
when you want to say, Okay, I want whiter teeth,
I want to change my hairstyle, well, I want to
sin my you know, my mid section something like that.
You know, all these this stuff has been around for
a while. I try. I'm a little bit of a
purist with my pictures. I try to keep them almost
(07:12):
true to life. But yes, I've played with a bunch
of these. I will tell you. Samsung phones, the built
in photo gallery has the best AI editor on a
smartphone I've ever seen. I'm not kidding, Larry. You can
put your hand in front of your face. It will
remove your hand and fill in the rest of your face.
I don't even know how it does that. And I
(07:32):
don't mind the free botox from the app, so bring
it on. I mean, people like that Now, if you
want something really simple, there's an app called touch retouch.
If you just want to kind of get a blemish
out of there something, you can just use that to
get like a blemish off or something. Maybe there's a
stain on your shirt. You can use that. But I
(07:54):
use a combination of all of these different apps. I
use an app called pixart if I want to put
a picture into instant that doesn't fit. It's really good
for cropping or fitting a photo into like a square.
That's really great. Oh and then one more, if you're
trying to post something and it might have personal information
on it, you want to you know, block that out right.
So there's an app on the web it's called Redact
(08:17):
dot Photo, and you upload the picture and it blurs
it perfectly and it's all done privately in your browser.
And it's a great way don't share the pictures. Would
like the you know blocked out like mark up on
your phone because people have been found where they can
actually erase that and see what's underneath there.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Sometimes, Wow, that's a lot. Rich DeMuro rich on Tech
has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on
wr rich On Tech at Instagram. It's at rich on
Tech on Instagram if you want to ask him a question.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thanks a lot, Rich, Thanks Larry, having a great weekend.
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