Massive password breach, Amazon Prime Day tips & digital detox for kids (125, June 21, 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What you really need to know about the biggest password
breach ever, why the web browser you use actually matters,
how to prepare for Amazon's biggest Prime Day yet. Plus
your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro
and this is Rich on Tech. This is the show

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where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
should know about. It's also the place where I answer
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and fun. But when something deserves a little criticism, I
will not hold back. I'm here to give you the
clarity and perspective you need in our fast changing world.
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some great guests this week. Adrian Lemao, ching CEO of Clicks,

(01:09):
is going to join us to talk about their breakout
keyboard case. Yes, you can add a physical keyboard to
your smartphone, and they are doing it. We'll talk about
that and later in the show. Molly defranc She will
join me to talk about taking control of screen time
in your family. She's the author of Digital Detos. Got
the book right here, the two week Tech Reset for Kids. Yes,

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many families out there need that. I know that for
a fact. Well, welcome once again to the show. Thanks
for joining me, and thanks for streaming the first part
of the show on the KTLA plus app. This week
took me to Mexico City for a brand new tech show.
It's called Electronics Home. Now I'm back in the studio,

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but I just got back from Mexico City. Just to
be clear, it's called Electronics Home. This is the first
year they did this show. The organizers asked if they
can bring me down to Mexico City. I said, sure,
why not. I've never been there before. And I think
that the more you experience travel and the more you
experience the world, the better perspective you have on just
about everything, including technology and personally. I love to travel

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because it always forces me to try new things with
technology and to check out new gadgets and to just
see what it's like to make your way around this world.
The group behind this show has been running a major
electronics show in Brazil for the past two decades. They
recently expanded into Argentina and now Mexico City, so they
have a trifecta of Latin America. Now. The show itself

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was very small, really small, compared to something like CS
in Las Vegas or IFA in Berlin, both shows that
I've attended, and it's a start. Now. Many of the
companies were from China that were exhibiting their products. There
were a few from Europe and the US as well.
But the big takeaway for me many but number one,
Mexico is an emerging market. People there are getting disposable income,

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so more people are spending money. That means opportunity. But
here's the thing. Price still matters more than brand for
a lot of consumers there. That's a challenge if you're
a premium brand going into a market because think about it,
why would you spend fifty dollars as a consumer in
Mexico on a charging cable when you know you can
get one for five And so that's the challenge of

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these brands here. They're working to educate consumers explaining, hey,
we've got stuff that's better quality. It means it's going
to be longer lasting. It's going to be safer for
your other tech products out there. So that was one
thing I saw. The other is that some of these brands,
like a Mofi are doing a sub brand like a
Mofi Essentials, which is, you know a little bit of
a I guess like a maybe not lesser quality, but

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it maybe has a few less features than the main
brands so that they can charge less but still get
that good brand. Tariffs, of course another hot topic. I
asked just about every company there about them. Now, these
companies aren't scared of tariffs in general because they're very
used to them. Tariffs have been around forever, that is
not a new concept. What bothered the CEOs and the
people I spoke with is the unpredictability that they're seeing

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right now. It's really hard to plan when you don't
know if the tariff is going to be ten percent
next week or forty percent, and that uncertainty is what's
leading to a lot of stress, especially as we head
into the holidays. How much is my pricing going to
be for a particular product now. As for Mexico City itself,
I was really impressed. This is a massive historical city
with lots of energy. I had no idea going there

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that it was like on top of a mountain range
or whatever, so really high elevation. It's actually higher than Denver,
over seven thousand feet compared to you know, we know Denver.
Remember back to great school math. What's a mile hundred
and eighty feet high mile high city? There you go,
it's higher than Denver. Now, I felt it only on
my run. When I took a run and I was like, oh,

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I'm breathing heavy. That's when I realized the air was
really thin. The people are great in Mexico City. The
food is awesome and your money goes very far there.
The most expensive meal I think I had was about
thirty five dollars. That was at it like what I
would consider a tourist trap. And yes I did try grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers on guacamole. I don't I mean, look, I had

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to do it. I'm in you know, when in Rome,
right in this case Mexico City. Let's see what else
I walked everywhere. I took ubers. They were also cheap.
I went to the Wahwei store, so they've got their
version of Rodeo drive. And of course I had to
check out the Wahwei store because we can't have Huahwei
here in the US. And I'm not kidding you walk
into this store. If I blindfolded you and walked you

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into this store and took off the blindfold and I
said where are you, you would say, oh, I'm in
an Apple store and wrong answer. No, you were in
Ahahwei store. It looks identical, like literally someone just came
here to the US took pictures of the Wahwei store
or the Apple store and said, yeah, just make that
and so yes, a little bit of a copycat. But
the phones, I will tell you, I checked out the

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cameras really impressive. Like it's incredible how many choices of
smartphones they have in overseas places like Europe and Mexico
and China compared to the US and the US we
are pretty much limited to Samsung, Apple, Pixel and Motorola
is like probably a tiny bit of the market. But
in other countries you've got all these other brands opo

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zte a SEUs or is it a a sir Huaweih
of course, I mean really a lot of brands out there.
But what strikes me every time I travel is just
how much tech has transformed the game. So I can't
remember the last time I needed cash in a country
that I went to. Because you can use tap to

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pay for just about everything, you don't need to trans
convert your cash anymore. I didn't need a new simcard,
so I recently switched to a phone plan that now
includes international roaming, which is really convenient. I don't have
to do anything, just turn on my phone. Now, you
do pay more per month, so I do not recommend
you switch to a plan that has international roaming unless
you travel abroad a lot. Otherwise you're paying every month

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a little bit more for that, you know, for that service,
So you don't necessarily need that unless you're traveling a lot.
And e SIM is a great bet. I tested out
two of them while I was in Mexico, Aerolow, which
I've talked about many times on the show, and then
a new one called Saley s Ai L s A
I L E Y s A I L E Y

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s AI L why Sale And they both worked great.
And like I said, Tap to pay is everywhere, so
use that. Lean on that. Make sure your card, whatever
card you're using, does not charge foreign transaction fees. So
an Apple Wallet is something else I figured out. If
you want to change your default card that pops up
when you tap to pay, just slide it to the front.
So literally just press and hold it in your Apple

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Wallet and slide it to the front and that will
be your default card. Took me a bit to figure
that one out. Android, you can just go into the
card and press set as default. Now, when it comes
to currency conversions, you can also do that right on
your phone. This was another thing I figured out. On
the iPhone. You can swipe down and you can just
type in like two hundred and forty pass and it'll
convert it instantly into dollar, So that was pretty cool.

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They also have built in conversions in the Calculator app.
Look in the lower left hand corner. You tap the
little calculator icon. It says do conversions. You tap that
and boom, No need to download anything extra Now an Android,
I recommend the XE app that'll do conversions pretty easily.
Other travel tips I picked up add a widget to
your home screen with your time zone back home to

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make it easy to know what time it is back home.
Download offline maps before you travel so that you can
navigate even if you don't have service, Like there may
come a time when you're going from the airport to
your hotel and you don't have service or connectivity just
yet because maybe you haven't gotten your eSIM activated or whatever.
You might need to navigate download those offline maps. That
is great. Now the other big thing, and this is

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a really pro tip that I've took me a while
to figure this one out, but when you go to
a different country and you search on Google for the
first time, it's going to change your region to that country.
And what does that mean? All of your search results
are going to come up in my case as Mexico
search results right or whatever country you're in, like you
might be in Italy and get Italian search results. That's

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not going to be very helpful for you as an American.
So what you want to do is go into your
Google account, which is your profile picture upper right hand
corner of the Google main page, and it'll say settings,
So you can go manage your Google account and you'll
see your settings and all you have to search for
is region settings and once you do that, you can
search that to your standard. Let me just I'm trying

(09:29):
to do this as I talk to you here, but yeah,
as you go into your oh here it is lower
right hand corner. Sorry, settings, okay, and it says search settings.
And then you go into let's see where is it
other settings, and it says language and region and you
tap that and it says results language filter and results
region is what you want to change back to the US.

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And I'll put this all on the website so you
know it. But that is key because otherwise you're gonna
get all those results for your local area that you're
not gonna make any sense to you. So change the
default region to United States, and that way you can
get your your standard Google results that you like. And yes,
chat GBT. This is my first major international trip with
chat GBT and it's incredible. I mean it did everything

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for me, from telling me the neighborhoods to visit to
the things to do and translating menus. I mean it
was really great. You know, I love Google's AI mode.
That did not work in Mexico because I guess it's
a regional thing here in the US. Still, so I
ended up using perplexity a lot, which is also excellent.
So if you're not trying perplexity, check that out. But
the bottom line. The world indeed feels a lot smaller

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and more accessible than ever, and it is all thanks
to that little phone in your pocket. Lean on it,
use it, and with these tips you will be a
pro traveler. All right. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you
about the camera app that I was testing over in
Mexico City gives your photos a cool film like vibe.
And we're going to take some of your calls at
triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple
eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. The website for

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the show is richon Tech dot tv. There you can
get show notes and you can also email me by
hitting contact up at the top. Let's go to Oscar
in Winchester, California. Oscar, you are on with Rich. What's up, Hi, Rich?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I've got a a question about the U in my
Windows ten desktop. I have Microsoft Outlook that I have
to have. I got it to go, Daddy, and then
Microsoft exchange, and uh, I would like to be able

(12:04):
to uninstall it because their font site on it for
some reason. Got I think it's when it added, you know,
one of the AI options or something, and the font
size got in in uh to the largest and I
can't get it down. And then right now, also there

(12:28):
are there's a Microsoft notification that that that is up
on the screen that stays up that I can't get without,
so it covers my Outlook screen and I can't get
to the inbox or anything without this notification coming up.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
So you want to start over or are you? Are
you going to reinstall Outlook?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah? The thing, well, let me give you a not more.
It's it's more like a standalone version of Outlook.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Right, so you want to get the one from Microsoft,
the new one.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's not right, it's not it's the new version. It's
not the one that.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Came in.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Like I had used to have Office thirteen on there,
and it's had Outlook that is removed. So now it
doesn't show in up apps and features. Okay, so it
doesn't show in the program files or program files eighty six.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Okay, Well here's what I would do. So it sounds
like if you don't want to use this Outlook anymore,
then you want to uninstall it. And that sounds like
you're going to reinstall the new version of Outlook, which
you can download from Microsoft as well. They have like
a free version you can get for Windows. So what
I would do is you got to go into your
settings on Windows. So if you go into Settings, just

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type in the search bar add or remove programs, and
it should bring up System Settings at to remove programs
and you'll see a list of all of your apps there,
so it'll say installed apps. And up at the top
there's a search bar. You can type in Outlook and
you should find the version of Outlook that you're looking for.
And so once you do that, you're going to see

(14:13):
a couple little dots on the right hand side and
it'll say advanced options or uninstall, and you want to
just tap that uninstalled. Let it go through the process
of uninstalling that program from your computer, and then you
want to restart your computer. And then once you do that,
then you can go to the Outlook website. Let's see

(14:33):
here download Microsoft Outlook because there should be a version
of Outlook you can get for Yeah, the new Outlook
for Windows so it's free for anyone with Windows, and
that's a little bit different than the program that you're
talking about. I think this is more like a consumer
friendly version of Outlook than the standard ones that used
to come with the office programs. So you can then

(14:56):
view that in the Windows Store and you can download
that for free, and then you'll just have to reconnect
your email. And typically most email nowadays is all done
server side, so you should get all your emails in there.
If you're worried about your emails oscar being in the
old app, you might want to export those first before
you uninstall that app, so that way you have access
to your emails if you need them as a backup.

(15:18):
But that's what I would do, and then just reinstall
the new Windows or the new Outlook and you should
be just fine with that system, and that's fine. That's
the way to do it. So if you're getting these
random little things that are happening on your computer and
it's just not working out for you, get rid of it,
download the new one, and it's a whole refresh like
Outlook got a lot friendlier looking, I think than the

(15:40):
standard old version. And so I use the web version
of Outlook, which is completely different. But that's just because
I'm on a Mac most of the day and it's
just easier for me to do it that way, and
I have the installed version I do you know, I
have Outlook for Mac as well. There's just one little
feature that does not work for me. I've got this
like distribution list that I send an email to every week,
and for some reason, the Outlook for Mac does not

(16:03):
support that. And you know, they keep upgrading it because
it's brand new, But that's that's the reason I'm not
using that. Thanks for the call, Oscar, do appreciate it.
Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight rich one O
one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Uh, let me tell you this and then
we got got to go to a break. But YouTube TV,
if you are a YouTube TV subscriber, a lot of

(16:26):
subscribers are seeing a surprise ten dollars discount. So if
you're paying, remember they raise prices up to like eighty
three dollars a month. Well, if you're a subscriber and
you've been a subscriber for a while, I guess they're
quietly rolling out this ten dollars discount for existing users,
so that'll bring your price back to seventy three dollars
for the next six months. So they're not promoting this.
This is not official, but if you go into your

(16:48):
YouTube account YouTube tv account, this is if you're paying
for the streaming service you know with all the TV channels,
log in on a desktop browser, go into Managed plan
on the YouTube tv website and the discount might show
up there as a gift, and if you accept the gift,
they'll take ten dollars off your account for the next
six months. So again, if you got YouTube TV, go in,

(17:10):
log in on a desktop browser, check Managed plan and
see if you have a ten dollars discount. Eighty to
eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
to two four one zero one. Back after this, Welcome
back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O
one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Before the break, we were talking to Oscar about uninstalling
Outlook on his computer. Turns out it's not showing up
in that list of ad or remove programs. So when
that's happening, a couple things it could be. It could
be that it's part of Microsoft Office Suite, which has
sounded like Oscar said, so in that case you might

(17:52):
have to go to the Office Suite and uninstall it.
That way. There's also a third party program that might
be able to help. And this is in general, if
you want to uninstall some of the programs that are
on your computer that Windows is just not helping you do.
It's called Revo Uninstaller r e v O Uninstaller, and
this has a free version which can do some of

(18:12):
the basics for you. It'll uninstall your apps for free
Windows apps and a couple other things. But you know,
if you want kind of the pro version, you might
have to pay, but I would check out the free
version and just see if that helps. Let's go to
let's see Karina in Las Vegas, Krena. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Hi, Rich, Hi, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, absolutely, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Well, we used to have an exercise class here where
I live, and because I'm in a senior community and
they didn't rehire the gal. Well, I've got all these
videos that I've taped her classes on they're on my phone.
Excuse me, but I of course it's taking up so
much space, So I want to know where's the best

(19:02):
place and the easiest because I don't want a lot
a lot of complications of where I can store all
these videos.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
How much? How much are we talking? Like how much
are they taking up? And what are you trying to
give them to her? Or are you trying to just
keep them?

Speaker 4 (19:19):
I want to save them. I want to save them
for myself because now that we don't have her here anymore,
I want to still be able to use them when I'm.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
In the gym.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh I see she still want to like, you still
want to watch these videos on your phone?

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Well, yes, but I want to put them on another platform.
I guess that's what you call it, so that it
won't take up so much space on my phone, because
I keep getting that message to clear up the storage,
and it's because, yeah, I've got pictures and videos and
my grandkids and but right now what's more important is

(19:56):
these exercise videos.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, you got to get rid of these things. It's
like you can't do anything else on your phone because
of this. How do you know how much storage these
photo these videos are taking up? Roughly? Like are we
talking a gigabyte? Are we talking five? Gigs.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Okay, you're asking me a question. I said, I don't
know how to answer that.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I don't know, Okay. So the main thing is that
there's a couple. So it sounds to me like you
want to get these off your phone, but you also
want to be able to access them on your phone
in the future, so that if you wanted to refer
to them, it'd be easy to do that.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Now, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Now, here's the thing. Are you paying for iCloud storage?

Speaker 4 (20:34):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, you're not, Okay, So what I would do is,
I think, uh Karina, I think the best way to
do this is to really get a cloud service provider
where you can upload these photos or these videos and
then that way you'll still be able to access them,
but you will have them off your phone. So what
I would do is look for a provider. There are
a couple, so it depends on how big these attachments are. Right,

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So if we're talking like a gig or two gigs,
most of the service providers will give you up to
like fifteen gigabytes of free storage, depending on the service provider.
So for instance, if you were to download Dropbox, what
you could do is you could upload these videos directly
from your phone to the Dropbox app, and then once
they're in the Dropbox app, you can delete them off

(21:20):
your phone. Now, Dropbox gives you two gigabytes of free storage.
So let me just take a look at the amount
of space of video is taking up on my phone. Okay,
so let's see. Here's a standard video that's about This
is about a minute long, and this video is taking
up about one hundred gigabyte one hundred megabytes. So if

(21:41):
we're doing the math on there, you know, it depends
on how much you need. The one that I probably
recommend is one Drive because they're going to give you
five gigs of storage for free, and it's pretty easy.
You could download one Drive, you can sign up and
that will give you five gigabytes of storage and you
can keep that on your phone and so you'll still
have access to these videos. The other one I'm looking

(22:02):
at is let's see here. So there's a service called
Pea Cloud which I was testing, and they're going to
give you ten gigabytes of free storage. And I've tested
this recently. It's exactly as it sounds. Ten gigabytes is
pretty good. So maybe start with that one. Let's see here,
So ten gigabytes for free. And what you would do

(22:23):
is you would just upload these videos to this this
pa cloud app, and then once they're on that app safely,
they'll be in the cloud. You can just delete them
off of your phone and they will still live in
the cloud. So that's the way I do it. And
then you can access them at any time through this
app on your phone, and it's very easy. I've tried
this and it's pretty simple to do, so that's probably

(22:44):
what I recommend. So go to the website pcloud dot
com or just download that app on your phone and
set it up, sign up, and then once you download
that app, take you know. The app will show you
in your gallery all your videos, find those little exercise video,
upload them to this app, and then you can delete
them one by one off your phone. And this is

(23:05):
free pretty much forever for that amount of storage. So
that's probably gonna be the easiest way to do it.
There are a million ways to do what you're talking about,
by the way, it's just a matter of like what
do you want to do with these videos afterwards? Like
if you just wanted to offload them from your computer
or your phone, I would say, you could just grab
a flash drive, plug it into the bottom of your
phone and drag these videos to that flash drive and

(23:27):
then delete them. But you said you wanted to follow
these exercise videos from your phone in the future, so
that's probably the best way to do it. Thanks for
the call, Kreta, appreciate it. Do appreciate that. Let's see here,
how long do we have Bobo before I got to
go to break? Okay, got time. So let me tell
you about this, this giant password leak because sixteen billion passwords.

(23:54):
Lots of headlines about this, Lots and lots of headlines, scary,
scary stuff. Everyone's saying you gotta change all your passwords
right now. That is not realistic. So this is being
called the largest data breach. Ever, a lot of this
was stolen via malware that logs your keystrokes, so it's
not necessarily like these companies were hacked. It was computers

(24:14):
that were hacked. And this is a gathering of stuff.
So a lot of people are debating whether this is
old or new. It doesn't matter. You still have to
treat this as a reminder to lock things down. So
number one, do not reuse passwords. If one password gets compromised,
the hackers will try to use it everywhere else. That's
why you don't want to reuse your passwords. Number two,

(24:36):
turn on two factor authentication. So you want to use
an app like two fas or pretty much any two
factor authentication app that you come across that you like.
You can use au these good Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator.
They all have their pros and cons. Two fas is nice,
it works on iPhone and Android, and it's better than
getting those SMS codes. So sign up for an app

(24:58):
like that and then use a password. Man, I know
I'm a broken record. You got to use a password manager,
something like bitwarden, which is great. It's free, it's cross
platform that'll generate and store long unique passwords. Now, focus
on protecting your key accounts. Now in this password leak,
we've heard about Google, Apple, Facebook, We've heard about those

(25:21):
passwords being involved in this. Now, if your account is
out there with this password in the wild, yeah, there's
a chance that someone can log into your account. But
if you have two factor authentication, you're going to be
protected way more than if you don't. So do you
have to go out and change your password on these accounts?
If it's a password that you've been reusing for the

(25:41):
past ten years, absolutely get out there and change it,
because chances are it's in this dump. If it's not
a password that you've been reusing, if it's something in
a password manager, you're probably okay. And you have two
factor turned on, you're probably okay. Keep it in mind,
a lot of these hacks happen when people say, oh,
I got hacked on Facebook, hack on Google, I got
hacked on Instagram. It's not necessarily that someone is sitting

(26:04):
out there trying to hack your account. It's most of
the time you are being tricked into entering your password
on a fake website that is trying to steal your information.
So that's what's really happening a majority of the time. Now,
in this case, you know a lot of these passwords
were gotten via malware that steals your keystrokes from your computer. Again,
your computer was hacked at some point along the way.

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And this happens when you download some random program or
you know, whatever you're doing on your computer that you
might install something that you're like, oh, wait a second,
why did I just do that? And then you've got
something that's logging what you're doing on there. Now, there
are some ways if you're curious. A website called cyber
News has a password leak checker, so they actually have

(26:49):
a website where you can go to you can type
in your password. I know this sounds scary, and I
don't recommend that you necessarily do this unless you are
typing in a password that's old and you've reused a
bunch and you're just sort of curious. So I typed
in a couple of my old, old passwords that I
was reusing a lot before I got smart, and sure enough, yeah,
it's like, oh yeah, those are out there. So if

(27:09):
you've got those passwords you want to try to put
into this website cybernews dot com slash password dash leak
dash check, and you can type in a password that
you've reused over the years and it will tell you, yeah,
that's out there. They've got thirty a database of thirty
three million passwords that are just sitting out there, exposed

(27:30):
on the open web. So if you're using one of
those passwords from back in the day, chances are yes,
it is been leaked. And again this is not new information.
This stuff. I'm telling you. The steps I'm telling you
to take right now are the same steps I would
have told you six months ago before we had these
scary headlines. It is the same main things. You have

(27:52):
to get used to using strong, unique passwords. Today I
was logging into a new account that I created at
a bank, and it was like, hey, do you want
to create You have to create these security questions. Answers
to security questions, name of the street you grew up on,
name of your best friend when you grew up. I
forget what the third one is. And I'm not kidding.
I don't use real answers to those questions. Because you

(28:15):
could figure out the street that I grew up on.
You could figure out my best friend's name when I
was a kid. That's pretty common knowledge, or my school,
my high school mascot. So what I do is I
use a some sort of generator to make up fake answers,
and I remember those answers so that if that information
got out there, you wouldn't be able to figure it
out because it's something that I don't even know. It's

(28:36):
just made up. Now, you have to keep tracted. Caveat
is If you're doing that, it'll keep you secure, but
you have to keep track of that information. So in
your password manager there's literally a small notes field and
you can type in the answers those questions and the answer,
so that'll give you an added layer of security. So yeah,
this stuff is not easy. I guess My point is,

(28:59):
if you're trying to secure online, it's not something that's fast.
It does take a little bit extra, but it will
protect you from things like this in the future. I'll
put the link to that password checker on my website.
Rich on tech dot tv eighty to eight rich one
O one eighty eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro
here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight

(29:22):
Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one. The website for the show
rich on Tech dot tv. This is episode one twenty six.
If you want show notes, it's all there on the
website links to anything I mentioned, is right there A
lot of you sending emails in let's see here we've
got Greg says, so should I use the password manager

(29:46):
on my iPhone or get the one you recommended in
your latest newsletter, Greg, I recommend a third party password manager,
so you can use the one on the iPhone, the
Passwords app. It's safe, it's fine. But the the reason
I don't like it is because it locks you into
the iPhone and iOS and all that stuff. And I
just personally think that third party software is better because

(30:09):
Bitwarden is thinking about everyone. They're thinking about how to
make their app work great on iPhone, Android, Windows, Chrome, everything,
versus Apple is only thinking about getting people to stick
to the iPhone and so therefore they're only prioritizing things
that work for iPhone users. So it's fine. If you're
never going to switch out of Apple, go ahead use it.

(30:30):
It's simple, it's easy, it's built in. But personally, I
like third party when it comes to all of my
software because it works equally across everything. And that's the
way I think the technology should be. I think that
technology should be inclusive and getting everyone on board in
the same way versus something that excludes people. And when
you're using something like passwords app on the iPhone, yeah,

(30:52):
they've got a way that you can use it on
a Windows computer, but it's just not very good, not
as easy as something like a Bitwarden. Well that's the answer.
But if you're fine with that, just go with it.
It's built in. And yes, of course it's easy and
it's simple. Then we got another email here from Let's
see here? Where was it? Vic says, Hey, Rich, I

(31:14):
listened to your podcast. I find it very informative. You
make it easy to understand technology. I'm trying to join Cantina,
but it wants to access my contact list and I
don't feel comfortable giving them full access. When I try
to select contacts, it won't let me. Do you know
if they if they contact everyone on my contact list
to try Cantina, is there a way around joining without
giving them full access? Thanks, I have not heard about

(31:36):
this app called Cantina, but yes, a lot of these
apps will try to get you to sign up and
give access to your full contact book because guess what
is a growth hack? It helps them get this information
to more people. So that is a red flag if
they will not let you sign up without giving them

(31:57):
full access. Because what's happened is so many of these
apps over the years that I've tested out, they will
take access to your information and they will spam your
followers or your contacts. I guess I should say, and
so with this app. I'm not sure. I'm trying to
go through the sign up sign up process right now
while we talk. Oh wow, look, I'm already I'm already

(32:18):
signed up for Cantina. How I've never even heard of
this app? Sorry, this email is taken? How is my
email taken on an app I've never heard of in
my life? Okay, I'm gonna type skip. When is your birthday? Okay?
I already don't like this app. If apps are asking
you for all this information, I don't know what that
You must be eighteen? Okay, well so I don't know.
I gotta get back to you on that one. I

(32:39):
don't know if I like that app. Let's see here,
let's go to Bill in Fullerton. Bill, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (32:48):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Rich? Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (32:51):
Here?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Are you great?

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (32:53):
I've got a Dell Tower to a PC model eighty
nine hundred I got from Costco about four or five
years ago, and the Windows eleven upgrade is telling me
that my CPU is not meeting their requirements. So instead
of buying a whole new computer, I was wondering, could

(33:13):
I upgrade the motherboard and the CPU and keep everything else.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
I mean you might be able to, But how much
would you pay for this computer?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (33:23):
Probably, I'm guessing five point fifteen six.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, so by the time you upgrade this thing, which
mayor you know, you may be able to do that,
but I don't think that's worth it. So you're the
amount you're going to pay for new components, if any,
that are going to work inside this computer is probably
going to be more than the price of a new PC.
But I don't think that that means this is hopeless.
We had a couple of guests on the show talking
about ways to get around these. You know what Windows

(33:50):
is doing is it's looking. It's it's checking your computer
to make sure that it's compatible, and it's it has
a list of things that it has in its checklist.
It says, yeah, this is going to make sure that
that when eleven works smoothly on this computer. But if
you're if you're gonna get rid of this thing anyway
or like upgrade or buy a new one, I'd rather
see you upgrade or force the upgrade of the software
on your computer and at least use this computer as is.

(34:13):
So what I would do is I mentioned this article
last week. There's a great article The Intelligence dot Com
is a great Windows newsletter, and he talks about Chris
a guy, a guest we've had on our show, talks
about how you can kind of force your computer to
upgrade to Windows eleven, even if it says it is
not officially supported. And the way you do this is

(34:36):
there's an app called rufous, So you download Rufus and
once you have that, that's basically going to help you
create a bootable USB drive very simply, and then you
download the Windows eleven disk image from Microsoft's website and
all you have to do is install that and it
will say a Windows User Experience window will appear, and

(34:58):
there is an option that says move requirement for four
gigabytes of RAM, secure boot and TPM two point zero.
Make sure that's checked. Install this, and now you can
just install Windows eleven on here. This is not again,
if Bill, if you're not sort of like a little
bit advanced with your computer, but it sounds like you
are based on what you just said to me. This

(35:19):
is not for the the inexperienced person, So I think
that you have to be a little bit tech savvy
to try this. And of course, before you do something
like this. You want to make sure that you are
backing up everything on your computer because it could all
go away when you're doing this fourced upgrade. But that's
what I would do. I'll put a link to this,
you know, this article on my website rich on tech
dot TV. But I'd probably do that before you look into,

(35:42):
you know, opening up this tower and replacing some of
those components on a computer. That's probably not meant to
do that. Rich on Tech dot TV eighty to eight
rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to two,
four one zero one. We'll talk Prime Day coming up next.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out out with you, talking technology. The website for the

(36:03):
show is rich on tech dot TV eight eight eight
rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four
to two, four one zero one. My name is rich Demiro.
Thanks so much for hanging out with me. We've got
a lot to talk about. Uh, we've got a great
guest this hour. Remember the BlackBerry. You know, everyone loved

(36:24):
their BlackBerry phone and had that keyboard click aty clack,
click any clack. Well, if you want to bring back
that experience, there's a company called Clicks that is doing that.
They're making keyboard cases for a couple of the smartphones
out there, like the Samsung's, the iPhones, some Motorolas, and
you can actually buy them at Best Buy. But this
has been pretty popular. So we're gonna have the CEO

(36:47):
of Clicks join us this hour to talk about how
you can add a physical keyboard to your phone and
just you know, I guess people like it. They've sold
a bunch of them. It is Prime Day, I guess sorry,
it is not Prime Day, falsel arm. I'm not spreading
false news here. It is not Prime Day. Stand down.
Put your credit card. Put your credit card back in

(37:07):
your wallet? Is that a credit card in your pocket?
You're you just happy for Prime Day? That'll get Boba?
See I would that be considered a dad joke or no? Yeah? Okay, Bobo,
Bobo's back. By the way, Bobo is Bobo. If you
didn't know, the show did not fall off the rails

(37:29):
the last three weeks, but it could have easily because
Bobo was off cruise in. Uh does that mean something different? No,
You're fine with that, okay. I was celebrating my forty
second Yes, happy birthday, Thank you?

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Bo?

Speaker 1 (37:45):
How old forty two, damn right and and everything. Yeah,
you can say that word. You're getting up there, tell
me about it, you know, Hey, it's you know, forty
two is pretty young, all things consider. Oh it is,
I bet hold on, do you remember do you remember
turning twenty one? Vaguely? Oh, vaguely? Okay, you had a
good party.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Then.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
I remember turning twenty one. I can remember it like
it was yesterday. I was in Vegas. I went to Vegas.
It was so exciting, like that was such a big
moment in my life. I was in Vegas.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
My cousin took me to Vegas with my twenty first
was the first time I got drunk off alcohol.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Firt. Wow, you were better than I was. I didn't
drink it till I was twenty one.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
More.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Wow, you're a saint. Well sadly, it's been downhill ever since. No, no,
you're not wrong. Oh my gosh, that's funny though. Good
for you. Hey, you know what, kids, if you're listening,
be like Bobo. There is no reason to drink. Honestly,
it is none at all. It's honestly, ever, But the

(38:46):
problem is you get started and then it's relaxing. It's fun.
You know, you have a good time, and then it's
like you know, and for some people they can't handle it.
You know, they just can't handle it.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
True, you seem like a guy that can handle ithred
percent minus life year.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
And we've all had those days. Yeah, they're just like
never again. But I can't say that I did miss
the show. Like I was telling my wife, I was like,
oh my god, I gotta go back on Rich. I said, Rich,
don't think I'm abandoning, But I was like, I gotta
go back, and She's like, you shouldn't want to take
off one more like jokingly, I was like, nah, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Have a word with Britney. Come in, hold on. I
thought I liked her. All right, Well, it's good to
have you back.

Speaker 8 (39:25):
Oh, and shout out to the city of Santa Monica.
I mentioned that I worked with you on Saturdays. I
hosted a Juneteenth festival and everybody told me to say
you love so from Santa Monica to Rich.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
They wanted to say, hey, thank you, Santa Monica. And
now they have that new promenade which you can drink outside.
Yes they do speak. Okay, so Prime Day happening. It's
bigger than ever this year, happening July eighth through July eleventh,
four full days, first time ever for that started out
as one day back in twenty fifteen. Remember Prime Day

(39:57):
started as a way to celebrate Amazon's twentieth birthday and
Prime like membership for customers, and of course sell Prime memberships.
But now they just keep expanding it and clearly Prime
Day is doing well for Amazon, and I think some
years it was like a little bit like Okay, give
me a break. Now I actually think it's gotten very legitimate,
like companies plan around Prime Day, and if you don't

(40:20):
really understand how Amazon works, it kind of benefits everyone
for Prime Day because there are so many Amazon affiliates
out there, right, people who write about Amazon products link
them up on their websites, and that website gets a
little commission from Amazon for selling products. So they have
like all these sales people out there that sell products

(40:40):
and they come up with like, you know, ten ten
travel products that are the best or ten whatever, just
pick any category. Websites are promoting this stuff. That's why,
so Prime Day kind of works out for everyone because
everyone wins. So this year, what's going to be different?
Lowest prices of the year on brands like Sony, Dyson,
and Samsung. Today's Big Deals. That's a new thing. They're

(41:02):
doing daily theme drops exclusive to Prime members. They just
come up with like a different deal name every year.
You're also gonna get a dollar off a gallon of
gas per gallon July third through six, so good for
Fourth of July weekend. That's at BP, Amoco and AMPM,
but you have to sign up for that first. That
program they have, Alexa Plus, is gonna help you track

(41:25):
deals and there's gonna be all kinds. Like the bottom line,
here's what you need to know about Prime Day. Don't
believe the hype. Don't go in there trying to spend money,
trying to find things to buy. What you really need
to do is just think about the stuff that you
need and or want right. There is a difference. But
put that stuff in your cart now or put it

(41:45):
in your save for later, and then when July eighth
rolls around, that's when you can look in your cart
and see if these things go on sale. Now there's
a caveat. You know, all the Amazon brands are gonna
go on sale, the rings, the Kindles, the fire TVs,
all that stuff's gonna go on sale. A lot of
big brands are gonna go on sale too, But put
the stuff that you want in your cart now. And

(42:07):
by the way, we're talking about this a couple of
weeks before it happens. Prices drop in the in the
hours and days leading up to Prime Day because there's
so much attention around Prime Day. People are just looking
for stuff to buy. I'm already going to Amazon dot
com slash Prime Day, and there's already a whole bunch
of deals on all kinds of stuff. I mean, everything

(42:29):
back to school, up to thirty percent off top products
like ring I mean, there's just so much stuff that
you might want to buy. But again, don't just browse
the website. That's gonna You're gonna lose money in the
end doing that. What you want to do is think
about the stuff you need. Look around your house, even
things that you eat, things that you need, like to restock.
It sounds silly, but that's the best way to get

(42:51):
the most out of Prime Day. It's like buying the
stuff that you're gonna get anyway. It's like going into Costco.
When you go into Costco for one thing, right, they
get you because you want to buy your coffee that
you like at Costco and it's inexpensive because you buy
it in bulk. Well, most people can't walk out of
Costco with just buying that one thing. They parade through

(43:12):
all the aisles and there's so many great deals and
you end up spending a couple hundred bucks just because
you came in for that coffee or I mean paper towels,
toilet paper. Why do you think they put all those
on the back wall. You gotta walk all the way
through Costco and there's it's like you know, you're a
kid in a candy store when you're an adult at Costco, right,
there's so many things and it's and don't get me wrong,

(43:32):
Costco is a good deal. You compare the price you're
gonna paid anything at Costco, it's gonna be better than
on anywhere else you go. But the thing is you're
buying a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time.
And usually there's one or two things you buy that
you probably didn't go in for, that you don't really need,
but you buy anyway. That's how it goes. So anyway,
Prime Day is happening with that said, I do have

(43:55):
a list of I just created on my website a
list of some of the products that I like because
people always ask me what's your go to gadgets and gear,
So I made a list of my go to gadgets
in gear and I put it all on there. This
is stuff that I've tested that I like, and it's
all linked up. So if you want to see if
that stuff goes on sale for Prime Day, check it out.
Rich on tech dot TV. The thing I did test

(44:17):
on my trip to Mexico City is a portable carbon
monoxide detector. I'm sure you've heard the stories in the
you know, these couple of stories throughout the years where
there's been some unfortunate incidents where carbon monoxide has claimed lives.
You know, people are in a rental place or in
a hotel room. Now, I don't think this is a

(44:37):
prevalent thing. I don't think it's a major issue, but
it has happened, and it's happened enough, or when I've
stayed in a rental I'm like, Okay, I want to
have one of these things in there, because you never know.
And so I tested this new one, which is a
digital one. It's small, it's compact, it's got a digital readout.
And the wild thing is I plug this thing in
or actually it's it's a cordless so I didn't have

(44:58):
to plug it in, but I charged and the first
night I'm in my hotel room, the thing is given
a reading of thirty, like thirty ppm of COO and
I'm like, uh, oh, what the heck, what am I
supposed to do? It was ten o'clock at night. I
turned this thing on and I'm like, great, my room
is filled with carbon monoxide. That's not good, now, I

(45:19):
figured at the end of the day. So I ended
up putting on putting on my shoes, and walking downstairs
in my pajamas at this hotel and I went outside
with this little carbon dioxide detector. I'm like, let me
see if it changes to zero. And it did change
to like a little bit less, but it was still
a little bit on the high end. But I was like,
you know what, this thing has an alarm on it.
If it's if it's a problem, it's going to alarm.

(45:41):
So clearly it thinks it's under the threshold, which I
think is about fifty. Even though you don't want to
be in any sort of COO exposure for a long time.
But anyway, so it finally worked out. It was fine.
I survived my first night of sleep. I was like, well,
that's it. That's it for rich On Tech. I'm to
go to sleep and quietly just never wake up all
because I've decided to not listen to this carbon monoxide detector.

(46:05):
But for the rest of the week, the odd thing
was there was no reading in my room over zero.
So I don't know if something was going on that
night or what, but it did have a reading. But
this thing's cool because it's got the carbon monoxide reading,
it's got the temperature, the humidity and the air quality
and so it's all in one and it's really really great.
So anyway, it's forty bucks. If you want to see

(46:25):
if it goes on sale. You don't need to buy
it today, but put it in your cart. See if
it goes on sale for Prime Day, because you know,
I paid full price, but you know, maybe go on
sale for the next couple of days. All right, I'll
put that on the website. Rich On Tech Dot TV
eighty to eight, rich one On one eighty eight, seven
four to two, four to one zero one will do
more of your calls. Plus, I'm going to tell you
about WhatsApp. They are adding ads for the first time ever.

(46:49):
And this is another thing we used in Mexico City.
The little group of people I was with, we all
use WhatsApp. It was fantastic, such a great way to
keep in touch with people that are using different phones.
I'll tell you about the ads plus your calls coming
up right here. I'm Rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
talking technology at Triple A. Rich one oh one. That's

(47:13):
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Let's go to Laurna in Long Beach. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 10 (47:22):
Bye, Rich, thank you for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Absolutely. What's going on?

Speaker 9 (47:28):
So?

Speaker 10 (47:28):
I have a printer model HP Office Jet Pro okay
six eight three zero. I know it's an old printer,
but I really really need a printer right now related
to work. So I have searched Google on how to

(47:48):
print head, how to clean the print head. So I
did follow the directions one and then uh I let
the printer rest dry for about thirty minutes and I
was successful. But then after another couple of hours, maybe

(48:13):
I wanted to print again, and so the print head
error appeared again.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
So what First off, this is an ink chet printer, right, Yes?
Are you using genuine HP ink Chet cartridges? Yes? I am?
And are they old or new?

Speaker 10 (48:35):
They're new? Actually I just got them and I made
sure that they're not expired.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Okay, And so when you put these in, have you
did you go through? How did you clean this?

Speaker 10 (48:47):
So I followed the print head cleaning from Google, you
know for HP Office Jet Pro. I looked at the
model and then I I detached the or I unplugged.
I unplugged so I was able to move the print

(49:12):
head from side to side. And I've placed the paper
towel underneath the print head, and then I flushed each
port of the ink, the color ones and the black port.
I flushed it with a print head cleaning kit that

(49:33):
I bought separately from Amazon.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Well, typically these little printer as far as I understand,
the print head is like on the cartridge itself. So
if I feel like there's something bigger going on here,
have you done the have you done like the built
in sort of system cleaning where you go into like
set up printer maintenance and then clean print head. Have

(49:58):
you done that?

Speaker 5 (50:00):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (50:00):
I tried that, but it wouldn't show me you know
there it's it's better when I see the picture and yeah,
and so I I've done that. But and then even
if I do it, it doesn't print anyway.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
So what's the what's the error on the actual machine
saying yes?

Speaker 10 (50:23):
On the actual machine?

Speaker 1 (50:25):
And what's the error saying clean the print heads? Yes?

Speaker 10 (50:28):
And then it keeps uh giving an error message your
print print head is uh is I forgot what the
message was. But it needs a pension. Your print head
needs a pension.

Speaker 11 (50:42):
Okay, So I.

Speaker 10 (50:46):
I probably will try cleaning it again, but then I
probably would have to ask your suggestion if I have
to buy another another printer.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
How old this printer? How old is this printer?

Speaker 10 (51:00):
Ten years?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Ten years old? Okay? That okay, that could be the issue.
I mean, look, I think that a printer should last
ten years. I don't know what's going on with this printer.
I'm not really sure I've encountered this error on mine.
I would think that replacing the cartridges. And I'm looking
at the manual cleaning. I mean it says like for
effective manual print head cleaning, gather these supplies lint free

(51:24):
microfiber cloths, distilled water, shallow dish, printer cleaning solution, rubber gloves,
paper towels. Sounds like you're doing surgery on this printer here.
I mean, it seems like a lot. I would say
I wouldn't spend any more money on this printer to
fix this or to try this, but I would other
than following their printing. You know, they're they're kind of

(51:46):
like built in print head cleaning process. It says you
might need to do it up to three to four times,
so that's the only thing I can think of. There's
also a printer diagnostic test. This might help with the
HP Print and Scan Doctor, So that might be something
you look into and maybe that can help you out.
It's called hp Print and Scan Doctor for Windows, and

(52:10):
that might be a way to see what's going on
with this printer. Otherwise, you can take this printer into
a place like you break I fixed, and you can
get them to give you like a free estimate on
how much it might cost to fix this thing. But
I wouldn't really spend any extra money on it. If
I were you, I would just go with the brother
laser jet printer if you need me in depends if

(52:32):
you need color or not, but I would just go
with the Brother laser jet. There's a I'll link up
the model number on the website. Rich on tech dot tv.
But that's probably what you want to do, is just
get something simple that's inexpensive, because ten years is a
pretty good run for a printer, but I'd like for
it to last longer. But if it's not working and
the print head cleaning is just not it sounds like
you've done everything you need to do to get these

(52:53):
print heads cleaned and it's just not giving you that
error free message. The only other thing I would think
to do, and you might want to try this, is
do a reset, like a factory reset of this printer.
You can go into settings and in the settings it'll
say like factory reset printer. You might want to try that,
and that's going to clear all the settings and that's

(53:15):
going to bring this thing back to factory. You're gonna
have to reset it up, but that might clear out
that error message. Good question, Lorna, that's a tricky one
eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four
to two four one zero one coming up, We're gonna
talk physical keyboards for your smartphone right here. Welcome back
to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

(53:37):
talking technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one.
That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Is this genie in a bottle? Oh my gosh?
When did that hold on? This song is like nineteen
ninety nine, you're talking that song is twenty six years old.

(53:58):
We're old. Wow wow, Okay, that is just time is
going way too fast, all right? Eighty eight rich one
on one eighty eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Rich on tech dot tv is the website.
Joining me now, Adrian Lemouching, CEO of Clicks. They are
making keyboard cases for various smartphones and it's been quite successful. Adrian,

(54:22):
thanks for joining me, Rich. Great to be here, absolutely
so if someone hasn't heard of Clicks, explain what it is.

Speaker 12 (54:33):
Sure, Clicks creates physical people cases for smartphones, so for
iPhones and androids, and really what it is is we
have taken the best experience you can get from physical
buttons and added them to your smartphone just as an accessory.
And it's really for those who have those who missed

(54:55):
the speed and accuracy of having buttons on your phone.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah. I mean, look, we all loved the BlackBerry back
in the day. Did you were you a BlackBerry lover?
Was this part of the inspiration or.

Speaker 12 (55:08):
What I and my entire team were huge BlackBerry lovers,
you know, massively passionate about it, and so you know,
this is something that we've wanted to do for a
really long time.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Now, that's the interesting thing. So clearly you did your homework.
Did you find that there was a need or a
want for people to go back to these physical keyboards
because it's been a while since we've had them.

Speaker 12 (55:33):
Yeah, it has, and a lot of us have been
in this space for a number of years now, and
we've always known that there is this nascent demand for
people who really missed their buttons. I mean, one of
our co founders, he's known online as crackbree ke Heavin, and
he's the guy who always gets emailed every single week.
Do you know where the BlackBerry's coming out? Do you

(55:54):
know when the next keyboard phone is coming out? And
so we know that there's always a demand there for it.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
So who do you think this is for? Like, do
you think this is for someone that just likes the
old days of their BlackBerry keyboard or do they you know, like,
is it just to get work done? Like what do
you think this is? Like what's the use case scenario here?

Speaker 9 (56:12):
Yeah, really good question.

Speaker 12 (56:13):
We've been on the market for a year now and
we've done a number of post purchase surveys just to
get an idea of who's using the products, and it's
actually a lot different to what we initially thought. So
you do get your I guess you'd say you're kind
of business people who really miss their blackberries. You know,
you're kind of ex Wall Street or Wall Street banker
type people who you know, missed back braze.

Speaker 9 (56:34):
And use this.

Speaker 12 (56:34):
But actually we've also found that the demographic is really broad,
so anybody from you know, entrepreneurs, people who kind of
work for themselves, you just like to do stuff on
the go. Also to students, people in college, you know,
they're taking their devices with their clicks into their class
and they're using it to record that their lectures.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Now, how hard is it to get used to typing
on a keyboard again after years of you know, training
on a touch screen.

Speaker 12 (57:03):
That's a that's a really good question. It's it does
feel a little bit alien at first. We say, it
takes around kind of you know, between two days to
two weeks to get used to having buttons under your
thumbs again. But once you're there, you're you're flying and
it feels so good.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
So what has been the reaction? I mean, I know,
you guys are in best Buy, right like, that's that's
pretty huge for a tech gadget.

Speaker 9 (57:27):
Yeah, we are.

Speaker 12 (57:28):
We we were actually in We were in best Buy
for over a year now. We started off with them
middle of last year. You know, great great partners, and
we've got our own little space and about two hundred
best Buy stores in the US in the theater district space.

Speaker 9 (57:43):
And you know, it's been super successful.

Speaker 12 (57:45):
People have been, you know, going there trying the products
in their hands and then and then supporting it to
the extent we're actually this year we launched a new
product called most roller Raser clicks and Best Buy for
when they promoted them the first phone, the first most
roller razer for this year, they actually gave a free

(58:05):
clicks away to.

Speaker 9 (58:06):
Every customer that bought a corresponding razor phone.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Oh wow, that's pretty cool. How much do these keyboards
typically cost.

Speaker 12 (58:15):
They are one three nine dollars for the regular size
and one hundred and fifty nine and for the larger size.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
And what phones do you have them for? I know
you started out with the iPhone obviously that's you know,
a good place to start, but you've branched out, So
tell me what phones you have them for now.

Speaker 9 (58:29):
Yeah, we did.

Speaker 12 (58:29):
We started off doing iPhone fourteen and fifteen. When iPhone
fifteen launched in September, we may go on for that
product as well. This year, we've also made it for
the Google Pixel nine nine prob and for the most
roller Razor Flip and Adrian.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Do you think that because of the success of these
keyboards there will be a company that makes smartphones that
brings back the physical keyboard that built in.

Speaker 9 (58:54):
That is such a good question, Rich.

Speaker 12 (58:56):
I don't know whether you're seeing what's going on at
the moment online on TikTok, there's a lot of stuff
about BlackBerry and you know, either bringing back BlackBerry or
companies out there that are trying to restore all Blackberries.
We know of projects that have tried in the past
and that are looking to do this, and so we
know the demand is there. We know that there is,
and ultimately, I think a lot of people who you know, yeah,

(59:19):
they like their they're like an iPhone with a keyboard
case on it, but some really do want to have
just a phone like a Blackberries have experience again.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
And I was able to I know, mister Mobile obviously,
Michael Fisher one of your other is he a co
founder with the company.

Speaker 9 (59:35):
Yes, Michael is a co founder. He's he's been with
us on the journey since you know, really early days.

Speaker 12 (59:40):
He's had a lot of input into you know, everything
we do, from you know, keyboard designs to user experience.
You know, he just knows he knows the products, not
just from a keyboard, addective smartphones as well. You know,
he's probably reviewed every single keyboard smartphone that's ever been
produced and been released to market. So he's such a

(01:00:01):
such a world of knowledge, you know, and such a
genuine guy as well.

Speaker 9 (01:00:04):
He's a really really good person to have on the team.

Speaker 7 (01:00:07):
He is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
It's funny because I go to a lot of events
with him, and he always has the most friends around
him at every event, So that's a that's a good
sign for him. But you know, here's the thing, So
I tried this out at CES. This was a couple
of years ago, I think when it was first launching.
It does add some bulk to the phone, So explain
that aspect, because is it a case. Is it something
you put on and off when you need it, or

(01:00:28):
is it something you leave on all the time.

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
Yeah, we don't.

Speaker 12 (01:00:32):
Really tell people how to use it, but what we
found from our users is that most people leave it
on all the time. Now, it does add a little
bit of bulk, and you know, it does stick out
of your pockets. You know, we have a lot of
our female customers saying it doesn't fit into a handbag.
We've tried to make it as small as possible for
kind of the product as it is today, but we're

(01:00:54):
continuing to innovade, you know, look at how we can improve,
even if it's shaving minimey to new product form factors.
You know, we're always listening to our customers and we
want to try and make the best keyboard experience out
there for people.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
All right, is called clicks Adrian, What do you find
fun about all this? I assume this is not your
first sort of startup or thing that you've done before.
What do you find fun about all this stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:01:19):
Yeah correct, Yeah, not one of my first roudio here.
But I love making products. I think we we, we
and a lot of the team we come from a
place where we just love making physical products. We're really
passionate about them. We love seeing people use the product.
I mean, I was in a I was in an
event last week. Somebody came up to me and he said, clicks,
I know you guys. I was in a board meeting

(01:01:41):
last week and Linda Yakarino, who's on my board, showed up.
She put she sat on the set, she sat down,
took her phone out, put it on the table and
I had your product on that and she started telling
you all about it.

Speaker 9 (01:01:52):
And this was such an amazing story.

Speaker 12 (01:01:53):
And to hear things like that, and to know that
your product is being used by people, whether they're fortune
ten CEOs, whether they are you know, college students, whether
it's somebody who has you know, some kind of you know,
hearing or site visibility issue and they can't, you know,
use a phone properly, and now they can. You know,

(01:02:15):
all of these things I think really give us a
kick to making the products that we do.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Wait, that's interesting, So is there an accessibility aspect to
these keyboards.

Speaker 12 (01:02:24):
Well, I think you know, we didn't, we didn't go
into it deep ourselves initially. What we found is that
visually impaired people, We've had feedback from people that have
Parkinson's for example, who were unable to really use a
touchscreen very well, have now been able to really navigate
you know, keyboards and actually input into a phone. And

(01:02:46):
that's and that was a really nice story when we
started hearing some of these things.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
That's incredible. Yeah, it's it's I've I've found that with
a lot of tech products that they don't set out
to help people, you know, necessarily, like they don't think
about that aspect. But of course as people use these
things and they find these aspects that really benefit them,
Like I'm thinking of specifically the ray band glasses, Like
a lot of people in the accessibility community were like,
oh my gosh, these are so great for this, this
and this, and I just think that's a that's a

(01:03:11):
neat side effect of all this stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:03:15):
Agreed, Yeah, no, Agrede. I mean, I've got a great story, right.

Speaker 12 (01:03:17):
I was before we actually launched the products. I was
in the Apple Store in the UK. This was about
three months before launch and I had to buy an iPhone.
I was like, we would have an iPhone to the team,
I'm just going to buy iPhones.

Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
So I went.

Speaker 12 (01:03:27):
I went to the Apple store. The lady serving me
was visually impaired, and I was so impressed how she
was navigating through iOS. And you know when you go
to Apple stores and you purchase something, they all use
their iPhones to you know, to make the payments, make
the transaction. She was using a combination of an AirPod
and audio cues to navigate through with the menu system.

(01:03:50):
And I kind of let her finish what she was doing,
and I said, oh, you know, I'm really impressed how
you're navigating through iOS and how you're doing this transaction
For me. I just want to let you know, you know,
the reason I'm buying the phone, and you know, I
let out and I said, look, we're developing this product.

Speaker 9 (01:04:04):
I think you might be you know, you might find
it interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:04:06):
And I put her fingers on it and she touched
the keys and immediately she got in she was like, wow,
it's it's the keyboards and and you know, her reaction
and her face was like you know it was. It
really touched me. And you know, to me, I thought,
you know what, this is something that the world really needs.
You know, it might not be something that everybody will
out there take out, take and grab, but I think,

(01:04:27):
you know, there is definitely a really strong community out
there and people that want a product like this.

Speaker 9 (01:04:32):
So we're just going to keep keep growing and keep
scaling amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
The website is clicks dot tech. Clicks dot tech if
you want to check out a physical keyboard for your smartphone.
They've gotten for the iPhone, the Pixel, the razor. Any
any thought about Samsung in the future, is that maybe
going to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:04:50):
We we thought about it, you know, I think we
listened to our community and you know, it's who's going
to shout loudest. You know, we're also a growing business
and we want to scale at the right page. We
don't want to do We've learned I think a lot
of lessons in the last year. It's very easy to
do too much too quickly. And Samson's are you know,
beast in itself in terms of the different phone models,

(01:05:11):
just like Apple an iPhone. So we'll we'll get to
it eventually, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Adrian Limao, Ching, CEO of Clicks thanks so much for
joining me today. Really appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:05:23):
Thank you, rich appreciate it all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
I'll put a link to it on my website. Rich
On Tech dot TV eighty eight rich one O one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
More of your calls, plus I'll explain my WhatsApp is
adding ads coming up right here on rich On Tech.
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology eight eight eight rich one

(01:05:47):
on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one. I guess since were past it, I
can I can mention what happened last weekend, but UH
had a little issue with the phone lines. And that
was interesting because I don't know what happened. Well I
do know what happened, but it's just long story short.
Apparently we were affected by some sort of I don't know.

(01:06:10):
People are trying you know what. I'm not even gonna
get into it. It's not worth it. But the point
is we're back this week. We've got our calls, we've
got our callers, We've got Kim, We've got Bobo. We
are firing on all cylinders this week. Kim chimed in
with her twenty first birthday Bobo. She went to Chevy's,
the Chevy Chevy's, Yeah, the Mexican restaurant. Yeah. She went

(01:06:31):
there after work and had her first legal margarita. Oh,
first legal Not quite as exciting as Vegas, but yeah,
you know that. You know what Chevy's has. I don't
know if there's one around here. They've got They've put
on every plate. I think, like this little like sweet
corn thing. Oh, it's like a little scoop of cor yes,
oh so good. Yeah, Like I just want that for

(01:06:53):
my whole meal. Oh, speaking of things, I ate, I
did I tell you this? I ate a grasshopper in Mexico?
Have you what have you ever eaten a grashopper? I
have no desire to eat an insect. So they come,
you can get it on the side with your guacamole,
So it comes. It just sounds worse a little bowl
of grasshoppers for like they're like, I don't know, dried
out freeze, dride, whatever you want to call it. And

(01:07:14):
then you like put some on your guacamole and eat it.
And you did it. I tried it. Come on, would
you not try it? Why not?

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
I wouldn't You wouldn't even try it. No, the whole
table was trying it. But I'm not not try it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:25):
I wouldn't be a part of the table, be a
leader or not a leader, not a follower.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
I was like, I'm in Mexico once, well, I mean
hopefully again, but you know what I mean. But I'm
just saying it's like, why not try it? Like I'm
still here today, I am here. Congratulations, Fine, nothing for you.
I can now I have a story to tell. That's
not a story I would want to share. We just
wasted like five minutes on its Daisy's and menafee, Daisy,

(01:07:51):
you're on with rich.

Speaker 11 (01:07:53):
Hell, Hi, Hi, I'm gonna can you hear me?

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Now, yeah, you kind of broke up a little bit,
but go ahead, okay.

Speaker 10 (01:08:03):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (01:08:05):
I have an acer Chromebook.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
It's about a year old.

Speaker 11 (01:08:08):
I love it. I do genealogy and I use a
split screen. And what's happening with my computer is it'll
just start spinning like it's not connected to the internet.
But my internet is very strong. All the other devices
are fine. And the only solution is to turn it

(01:08:30):
off and to turn it back on, and that gets annoying.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Yeah, of course, and I didn't.

Speaker 11 (01:08:35):
Know if there was any way of fixing it. But
since prime days are coming up, I also can get
a new Chromebook like that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
They're light.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
You just got this a year ago. We're not buying
a new computer.

Speaker 9 (01:08:50):
This.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
The computer should last more than a year.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
So I used.

Speaker 11 (01:08:56):
It's very heavily.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Used, so well, that shouldn't like effect. So here's the deal. Number.
There could be number one. There could be you said
this a Chromebook, right right, So there could be the
fact that you know, the Wi Fi chromebooks are not
necessarily known for being the most powerful computers out there,
so the components in them are not going to be
of the highest quality necessarily. It doesn't mean that they're not,

(01:09:19):
but it just means that the Wi Fi chip inside
this computer may not be as strong as some of
the other devices you were talking about. Now, I test
a lot of devices, and believe me, there is a
wide range of Wi Fi reception on the various devices
that I test. Like, for instance, Samsung phones have probably
the best Wi Fi and cellular reception out of any
device that I test. It's just the way they make them.

(01:09:41):
Pixel probably has the worst Wi Fi reception. And that's
also Google by the way, and so you know, an
iPhone somewhere in between. So I think the first thing
is has this been happening since you first got this Chromebook? No? No, okay,
So it could be that this thing is, like you said,
it's used a lot, but a year a very small
amount of time for a computer. So what I would

(01:10:02):
do is the neat thing about chromebooks is that you
can factory reset them without losing the data because it's
all basically done in the cloud. Like this, this computer
is just something that you sign in with your Google
account and you're browsing the web. Correct, yes, uh huh?

Speaker 11 (01:10:19):
And is it does it save all the passwords? I
have a password saver?

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Yeah, if you're you have it saved in Google Passwords. Yeah, yeah,
those will all be in there. So that's the beauty
of this. So what I would do is just to
save you and probably get you another year of this
computer at least. I mean, you want a computer to
last anywhere from four to you know, eight years. But
what I would do is there's a thing called power wash.
So have you heard of that on the chromebook? Okay,

(01:10:46):
so you can basically powerwash this computer, which is a
factory reset of the entire computer, so it's going to
be back to the when you open this thing up
for the first time. So that's what I would do,
is what called the powerwash. I'll put the instructions on
my website in the show notes rich on tech dot TV.
But basically, you sign out of your Chromebook, you press

(01:11:08):
and hold control alt shift are, and then you press restart. Okay, okay,
so you sign out control alt shift are, select restart,
and then you'll see a box and in that box
you'll see powerwash and that basically the name implies what
it's doing. It's giving your computer a power washing, which
means it's going to clear out all the junk, clear

(01:11:30):
out any settings that you changed, it's going to delete
all the Wi Fi networks that you've connected to, and
it's going to reset your Chromebook. And then once you
reset it, you can open it up, sign back in
with your Google account. Everything should be there and then
hopefully the problem is fixed and you won't have this
issue anymore, and that'll also get rid of any little
lingering issues that might be happening. The only thing is

(01:11:50):
you have to know is that ninety nine percent of
what you're doing on the chromebook is in the cloud.
Do you have any sort of oh, we got to go,
but that that should be just fine just back up
any fire that might be on an external drive. Great question, Daisy,
Thanks so much for the call. Welcome back to rich
on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking
technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one eight

(01:12:16):
eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Kim is standing by, get you on the air. Bobo's dancing.
I'm just doing my thing here on the mic. The
website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If
you're not following me on social media, check me out
on Instagram. Got a couple of posts of note. If

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you want to see a trifolding phone, I've got that.
A watch that has earbuds built into it. That's kind
of cool. I think it's only available in Mexico, but
it's still fun to look at. And then a couple
I got my number one hotel hack number one. I
am sharing all my secrets. By the way, I mentioned
that WhatsApp is getting at so you probably see a

(01:13:01):
lot of a lot of headlines about that. The thing
is look all these companies of Meta, you know, Meta
owns WhatsApp. They bought them. They got to make some
money on it. So this is what they're doing. They're
going to put ads in the updates tab. I never
even looked at the updates tab until I just looked
at this. It is basically like the status update area.

(01:13:21):
So that's where you're going to start seeing ads if
you're looking at that section. Most people, I think, are
looking at the chats, which is what I use it for.
WhatsApp was was instrumental in Mexico because there's you know,
ten or fifteen of us on the trip, and we
all have different phones, this and that, and I said, hey,
can we just use WhatsApp. Let's just make a WhatsApp group.
And it's perfect because everyone is It's a level playing field.

(01:13:44):
WhatsApp works the same on every single device, So you
want to send a big picture, video link, whatever, no
matter what phone you have, you can use it. And
so that's what people love. I mean, outside the US,
WhatsApp is huge. I mean everyone uses it. Hearing the
US people use it, but you know, I message is
really kind of the king of everything. Sadly, I say, sadly,
because again I like cross platform applications, and yes, I

(01:14:09):
message has gotten a lot better with RCS versus you know,
exchanging messages between iPhone and Android has gotten a lot
better because of RCS. But still people are not I Message,
and people get all bent out of shape. Oh you're
making the group green or whatever. That's nonsense to me
in a world of technology that should work equally well
for everyone anyway. Besides the point, so your personal chats,

(01:14:31):
your messages will remain ad free and most importantly, end
to end encryptied, which is really what WhatsApp is all about.
No one can tap into those messages that you sent
on WhatsApp. No one, no government, no, not even Meta themselves.
So that's why people like it because it is private
and encrypted by default. Let's go to Sherry in Orange County. Sharry,

(01:14:54):
you're on with Rich.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Oh Rich, nice to meet you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Well, nice to meet you you too via phone.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
Okay, so my question is kind of a interesting, Uh dylmma,
I have I've retired almost three years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
Congratulations, thank you, and I have three issues.

Speaker 5 (01:15:16):
First off, on my iPhone, go in and I'm trying
to enter in my email address. It goes to my
work email address, and I've looked all over and I
can't figure out how to remove that. It's like an
instant thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
I'm sorry, it's an instant thing.

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
Yeah, like you know, you you start typing it in
and a little auto we put in your email address.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Oh auto fill, yes, yeah, go to.

Speaker 5 (01:15:39):
My work email. And then then the next two are
that I set up the Facebook for my work years
and years ago, and I also set up Instagram, and
I guess I'm the main admin on it, and the
girl that took over can't remove me because I'm I
guess still working there and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Superior to her.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
But I don't know anyway. I need to figure out
how to do that too. I know I probably have
to make her the main admin too and then delete me,
but I can't find.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
How to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Yeah, okay, that's that the admin thing is, uh is? Yeah,
I got to look into that because I'm not sure
I've got I've got my wife as an admin on
my page, and I gotta I gotta see if you
can switch that. But let's let's tackle the the autofil first.
I think where that's coming from is your There's two
places that you can potentially do that first off, in
your contacts if you go to your con If you

(01:16:32):
go to your contacts and you go to yourself, which
is my card up at the top, you should delete
your work email out of there.

Speaker 5 (01:16:42):
Under my card?

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
Did you say yes?

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Under my card? And so that's that's probably where it's
populating that from the other place you can go is
into settings and there is a keyboard. Let's see here, keyboard,
let's see so is your is your email address in there?

Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
Well? I had like three emails in there, but it
always goes to my work one first.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Okay, yeah, so I would I would delete the work
one out of there and just that way that that
should probably fix that. But I'm going to look up
under the keyboard on your computer there is reset keyboard dictionary,
So I would tap that and see if that helps.
Because what happened is if you if you selected that

(01:17:30):
auto complete a couple of times throughout the years, your
iPhone just learns that that's what you're using, and they
kind of put that there at the top because it's
it's just what they're doing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
If I delete them all or delete before I do that,
am I deleting everything? Then?

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Well? Do you have a lot of stuff in your
custom keyboard. I don't think you do. I mean it
probably chance, but I'm just wondering chances are you don't.
I don't. It's just basically anything that the keyboard has
learned over the years, like if you corrected someone's name
or something like that. I don't think it's a big
deal to start over on that. If that's my first
first start with the contact Go to your contact card
and delete out your work email address, and I think
that should fix it. Restart your phone and see if

(01:18:07):
that helps the next time you go to type in
an email. For what it's worth, Sherry, uh. I. For
some reason, the only email address my iPhone does not
auto complete is my email address. It does every other
email address in the world except mine, and I'm not
sure why that's doing that. So I've got it in
my contact let me just maybe, you know what, let

(01:18:27):
me just make sure it's in my contact card now
that I've got you here. Yeah, I've got it right there,
and so I its just for some reason, it auto
completes every other email address in the world except for mine.
So that's it. Okay. Number two, change the admin on
a Facebook page.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
So.

Speaker 5 (01:18:46):
Change it on Facebook. Is it also changing on Instagram
or do you go both places?

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Uh? That I am not sure about. Usually with the
with the if their accounts are linked. Are the accounts linked, Yeah, yeah,
then it typically should change it on both. So what
I would do is, I think now I'm just kind
of imagining how you would do this, is that you
would name the new person as an administrator. Have you
done that?

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
I haven't looked at it recently, but I probably did.
But she said she wasn't the like maybe she was
a contributor.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Yeah, I would set her as the set her as
the main admin or set her as an admin, and
then if you can set her as the main admin
and then you can go through and have her I
think she might have to delete you so.

Speaker 13 (01:19:35):
And she said you couldn't go well, right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
But she might not have been a complete admin, So
I would I would go into there and check your
Facebook settings. That's going to be under settings and then
page roll. So let's see. Uh Facebook, It's Facebook settings
are a nightmare. They are literally the worst. They are
the worst setup of anything that I've seen on the

(01:19:57):
Internet because there's just so many of them, and it
depends if you're managing a page versus a private account,
which in my case I have both, so I can't.
I can't go through these on the air right here
because there's just too many settings. But typically go into
your settings on Facebook, look under page rolls, and if
it's not page rolls, it could also be page set up,

(01:20:18):
depending on the version of Facebook that you're using. I
think you're probably using I would hope the new page experience,
so that's under settings, and then page set up, and
then choose the user, give them access and then you'll
have to confirm that and then they can probably go
through and delete you. Okay, all right, sure you have
a little bit of homework.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
When I set up Facebook and then Instagram came into existence,
and then I want to say they're connected, because that's
how I got into Instagram, so it should be connected, right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Yeah, they should be connected like mine's connected because I
mine's all under the same account, So as long as
it's in the same account, it should be connected. I
don't I don't if it's not, and you'll just have
to do the same thing on Instagram.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
Okay, all right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
All right, Sherry, keep me posted. Go to Rich on
tech Dot TV send me an email let me know
if any of that stuff worked, because you know, sometimes
I like do a follow up because we talk about
a lot of stuff on this show, and I like
to know if the things that we talk about actually
work when you try to do them, because I can't
do everything while I'm on the air because it's just's.
I mean, like settings alone on Instagram. I'm looking at

(01:21:23):
the page here, there's just there's so many and they
change like every week. So I'm looking at my page setup. Okay,
here we go, page set up, and I'm looking for
the page recommendations, page access. Okay, here we go page access,
and there's me and there's my wife, and okay, so

(01:21:44):
if I yeah, I can set let's see remove access,
remove access. Oh I can remove access to my own self.
That's scary, but yeah. So if you look at it,
it should be where you can add someone as an
admin right there. And so that's what I would do
and just add her as the admin, make sure she
has complete access, and then she can go into this

(01:22:05):
the people with Facebook access setting and delete you out.
Good question eighty eight rich one O one eight eight
eight seven four to two four one zero one. Uh
if you like Xbox Game Pass, you can get two
months free if you have a Samsung TV or a monitor.

(01:22:26):
So this is a new deal because Samsung has a
new deal with EA Sports FC twenty five. I guess
you can play it with no console on a Samsung
TV or a monitor now, which is pretty cool. So
this is in the Samsung Gaming hug Hub. But because
they did that, they are giving people an Xbox game
Pass UH subscriber two months. So two months of this

(01:22:49):
for free. That's about twenty dollars a month. That's forty dollars. Yeah,
are you familiar with game You're you know? What do
you have? The Ultimate? Of course? Yeah? Now I've done
so many free trials of this. I've never I think
I've only paid for it one month. But I every
every like gadget like computers and things they come with
like a I don't know, just always I'm always getting
like months of free.

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
My only issue is now that Xbox Live is like
twenty bucks a month they change, You're paying like one
hundred and twenty dollars a year to game online. But
the positive thing about Xbox Live Ultimate is you get
literally most of their catalog to play.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
You can just download the games and play them. When
you're done, want them to delete them and download something else.
Most of the Microsoft games, most of the Microsoft game
the big titles there, yeah, the major titles. Then you
get them like a day early. Oh that's the cool thing. Yeah,
what's the title? What is everyone playing right now? What
are you playing? I'm still playing Fortnite and call them duty.
But those like Fortnite doesn't cost anything, right, Like, you
don't have to. I mean, you can play Fortnite for free,

(01:23:46):
but if you get the Season Pass, it can cost
you anywhere from eight ninety nine to you can get
the subscription for I thinks twelve bucks a month. Oh wow,
twelve dollars a month. But that you don't you get
a lot with that. But you don't need game Pass
to play for any game.

Speaker 8 (01:24:01):
What Xbox did was any game that is free to download,
is free to play online.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Yeah, oh that's cool. Well, anyway, so if you want to,
if you want to try to see if you can
find this, uh this two free months of Xbox Game Pass.
Go to the Samsung Promotions app on your TV, click
the Xbox banner or scan the code and then put
the code in at Xbox dot Com slash redeem two
free months of Xbox Game Pass. There you go eighty

(01:24:25):
and eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven
four two four one zero one more after this. Welcome
back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demurro here hanging out
with you, talking technology website for the show Rich on
Tech dot TV. Let's go to uh Tom in or cut, California.

(01:24:50):
Tom You're on with Rich by Rich.

Speaker 6 (01:24:52):
Thank you for calling me back. Great show.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Thank you, glad glad to have you here. What can
I help you with?

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
I'm in the market for a new laptop. I have
an old, old HP and I'm looking to pick up
another laptop. I'm not into gaming, not into downloading movies
or music. I guess I'm kind of boring. I mainly
just surf the web, email, and pay my bills online.
That's about basically all I use my laptop for. I

(01:25:21):
had this HP for I'm still on a Windows seven
if you believe.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
It, Oh my gosh, I burn it, burn that thing.
Yeah I am, I'm just kidding. Don't don't. I don't
want the environmental do do not burn batteries. Please do
not burn your laptops properly.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
Recycled anyway, it's been working great. I have no complaints,
but it's getting tired and it's been flown down, so
I won't if you have any recommendations for another laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Now, how long have you had this laptop?

Speaker 6 (01:25:50):
Well, it's a Pavilion E seven thirteen thirty DX.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
Not TAB Oh my gosh, okay, HP.

Speaker 6 (01:25:59):
You know it's worth great.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
No, that's that's what I'm saying. I mean, look at
this is the thing. Like we had a caller earlier
wanted to upgrade their computer after one year. No, computers
should be lasting minimum four years.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
If you're a power user like me, like I switch
my I switch out my computer every usually every two
to three years at the max. Right, But I'm a
power user, so I need to do that. But if
you're just an average user, that's like you said, you're
just doing bills, you're just surfing the web. Your computer
should last a long time. With a little bit of
maintenance and just kind of keeping things nice and clean

(01:26:32):
and up to date. You should have a computer that
lasts a long time.

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
So it's probably over fifteen twenty years I've had it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
That's incredible. That's an incredible run.

Speaker 6 (01:26:44):
I'm looking up grade, okay, get in the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
So here's the thing. So I mean, when it comes
to specs, what I would recommend is you don't need
super high end stuff. So I'm just going to give
you the basic specs I think you should be looking for. Okay,
so number one Intel or AMD chip. Now, most of
the chips these days are numbered, whether it's A three, five, seven, nine,
So I would go for you, you probably just need

(01:27:07):
a five. So Intel in Intel Core five, they have
two different like levels of that, so one is like
Intel Core one's Intel Core Ultra. You know Ultra obviously
is gonna be a little bit better. It's got the
AI stuff, but you'd be fine with the Core. So
but yeah, Intel Core seven or Core five, or you
can go with the a MD. I would say when

(01:27:29):
it comes to am D, you know, same thing. You
can go five or seven. But you know, they also
have these new computers that have the Qualcomm chips in them,
which is like a Snapdragon X. Those are gonna be
a little bit less powered, but for what you're needing,
they're gonna be just fine as well. So if you
see a computer with snap Dragon X that's gonna be fine.

Speaker 6 (01:27:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
Now when it comes to memory, uh, the other one
is uh, the memory you probably want. You probably want
minimum sixteen gigs of memory, So that's RAM. And when
it comes to the graphics, you know, the do GPU like,
you don't need a separate graphics if it's built into
the CPU, that's fine. Memory sixteen gigs is fine if
you want to make this thing. I mean, your last
computer lasted so long. If you want to go thirty

(01:28:10):
two gigs to make it last even longer, that's great. Storage.
You want a I would say probably five twelve to
one terabyte gig hard drive and most of the time
these are going to be SSD drives. That's going to
be much faster than a standard hard drive. Let's see
what else. And of course you just want to look
for your USB C ports. You want to make sure
it has that. You want good wireless. I think that's

(01:28:34):
going to do it. So brands specifically, I think the
brand to look at that I really like as the
a SEUs. I like two brands. The Vvo Book is
going to be sort of an overall great computer, the
Vivo Book. They often go on sale at best Buy,
so do not pay full price, but like this one
that I'm looking at, this VVO book S fourteen, which

(01:28:56):
is highly rated. It's nine hundred and fifty dollars. This
thing been on sale for as low as like five
hundred dollars, So definitely be on the lookout for, you know,
deals on that. And you want something that has a
big screen, make sure you get fifteen fourteen fifteen sixteen
inch screen is going to be best, especially if you're
using your computer for all those years. The other one
I like is the one I'm using over here. This

(01:29:17):
is a a sus Zen book that's going to be
a little bit more expensive, a little more sleek and slick,
but that's a really good one as well. So those
are two good laptops, but really, any laptop that you
find that has those specs that I mentioned, I think
you're going to good with Tom. Thanks for the call
and thanks for using a computer that long great for
the world. Coming up, we're going to talk to Molly
to Frank, host of digit Our, author of Digital DTOs,

(01:29:41):
a two week tech reset for kids. Welcome back to
rich On Tech. Rich On tech dot tv is the website.
Joining me now is Mollie de Frank. She's got a
new book called Digital Detox, The two Week Tech Reset
for Kids. Mollie, thanks for joining me today.

Speaker 13 (01:30:03):
Thanks for having me rich.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
So, this is a problem that is happening everywhere when
I was in I was in Mexico City this week
and I was watching I'd love to watch how people
use their phones and on the plane, just everywhere. And
so this is not just kids, but like pretty much
everyone is in this swiping culture of flip flip flip
flip flip, Like attention span is like one second and
it's getting out of control. So what inspired you to

(01:30:27):
write this book?

Speaker 14 (01:30:29):
Well, as a mom to six kids, I hear exactly
what you're saying. It definitely resonates, And honestly, it was
out of our own experience. My kids had too much
technology and I did not appreciate how much their digital
entertainment was squashing their creativity.

Speaker 13 (01:30:44):
It was putting them in bad moods.

Speaker 14 (01:30:46):
It was making them fight with each other in ways
that I had not seen. It made my own childhood
squabbles look like nothing in comparison. I was watching, like
wwe live in my living room, and I knew something
had to change. So we actually did some thing crazy,
and we took away all of their digital entertainment and
it solved probably eighty percent of our parenting problems. And

(01:31:08):
I couldn't believe it. So I wrote this book about
how to help other parents do it. And I've had
so many parents come back to me and say, I
cannot believe how quickly and how well this worked in
my family.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
So well, you described what was happening in your family,
You describe what's happening in like ninety nine percent of
households in America right now, and it happens in mine too.
I mean, I feel like I call my kids like
iPad zombies. When they're on their iPad, it's like nothing
else in the world matters. And I've said this many times.
When I was a kid, you know, I was outside,
I was and I'm not. Look. I get that the

(01:31:39):
world has changed in the time since I was a kid,
and I get it, But at the same time, you
still need to be a kid, and when you're on
your screen, you're just not like it's very different of
how you're developing as a child.

Speaker 6 (01:31:52):
Well.

Speaker 14 (01:31:52):
Absolutely, and to be honest, like it's a very difficult
time to parent right now. Because we're looking back at
our childhood going, yeah, pack me and all that.

Speaker 13 (01:32:00):
I grew up on that stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:32:01):
It's fine Saturday morning cartoons, but the technology has changed
so much over one generation that it's not the same.
And just like you mentioned, you've got these kids, they're
like iPad kids. They look like zombies. They're addicted to
these devices. So parents are kind of scratching their heads, going, gosh,
the marketing told me, you know, giving my kids a
tablet early would turn them into a rocket scientist. But

(01:32:23):
that's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing kids who are
bored and irritable and ornery. And what went wrong and
what we know and what we're seeing us the research
is just pouring out, is that this is not the
same technology, and it's purposefully designed to addict our kids,
and there are there are very little, if any redemptive
value in our kids digital entertainment right now.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
Yeah, I agree, And I actually think this may turn
out to be the Tobacco of this generation. Like it really,
like like you said, there's a lot of studies, but
like parents don't want to believe it, and it's so
ingrained in how kids function these days, Like when it
comes to keeping it in touch with kids and playing
video games. Like everything's online on the everything filters through

(01:33:05):
the screen, and so that also makes it a challenge.
So what is kind of the framework of your two
week digital detalks.

Speaker 14 (01:33:12):
Yes, so I recommend parents, if you notice in your
kids that they're irritable or they have their interests really
don't go beyond the screen. If the screen timer dings
and they fall apart, if you tell them go play outside,
build a fort, read a book, they say that's boring.
Those are red flags that shows you my kids might
need a reset, they might need to do a digital detox.

(01:33:33):
So I recommend going cold turkey no digital entertainment for
two full weeks. And I know that sounds really scary,
but I promise you can do it and it will
absolutely change your life.

Speaker 13 (01:33:43):
It'll change your kids for the better.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Now, okay, so once you do the two week digital detoks,
then how do you reintroduce all this stuff?

Speaker 14 (01:33:51):
Yes, great question, because the goal here is not to
move off the grid and go full like ma angles
on everyone. I mean, maybe that's your goal, it wasn't ours.

Speaker 13 (01:33:59):
We enjoy digital entertainment.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
That's like a little house in the Prairie reference. I
don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:34:03):
Oh yeah, we love Little House Egad.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
I got that.

Speaker 14 (01:34:06):
Yeah, we called my kids call it l HOP. They've
like given it a nickname as an acronym, LHOP. Anyway,
we love that show.

Speaker 13 (01:34:13):
It's a great Yeah, it's quality programming.

Speaker 14 (01:34:18):
But yes, So the goal isn't to move off the
grid completely. The goal is to put technology in its
right place. So the first half of the book is
all the details, what to do in the trenches if
you take your kids technology away, how to get through
the days when they're losing their minds ideas for what
to do for every type of family. And then the
second half of the book is how to make a
new long term plan that sustains those great results while

(01:34:41):
you're still using and enjoying digital entertainment in its right place.

Speaker 13 (01:34:44):
That was really important to our family.

Speaker 14 (01:34:46):
My kids love Mario Kart together, they love, you know,
with some video games with a friend, and we don't
need to have shame or stress over these things once
we've agreed that now this is the right place for it.

Speaker 13 (01:34:56):
You know, it's a lot.

Speaker 14 (01:34:57):
You can kind of compare it to sugar in our
world and our culture and our standard American diet, there's
so much sugar, and if you take it all out
and you do like a sugar detox, you're going to
taste your food a lot better and you're gonna realize, Gosh,
I did not need that much sugar. Once in a while,
treat is fine. Similar with your kids digital entertainment, you
take it all away. Now their taste buds, their creativity,

(01:35:19):
what they're interested in is completely changed. It's a lot healthier,
and then you can decide, yeah, a treat once, you know,
every now and again. But our kids today, the standard
American screen diet, eight to twelve year old kids are
spending forty hours per week on digital entertainment, and thirteen
to eighteen year olds are spending fifty hours a week.
I mean, these kids are like working the equivalent of

(01:35:40):
a full time job on just digital entertainment that doesn't
even count school.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
I always think that about I always say that to
my kids. I'm like, you're doing this like it's a job,
Like you literally act like it's your job to be
on like Minecraft and what's the other thing, roadblocks. I'm
not a fan of roadblocks Minecraft. I'll you know, I
know it's silly but I don't mind it as much.
But roadblocks I really take issue with because I feel
like it is ninety nine point nine percent nonsense in

(01:36:06):
that world. Yeah, and I think.

Speaker 14 (01:36:09):
That's great too, because I'm all about parents choosing the
best technology that fits their kids.

Speaker 13 (01:36:15):
No one knows your kids like you do, so I
don't think.

Speaker 14 (01:36:18):
Parents need to feel shame or stress about their rules
compared to someone else's rules. You know, if you have
a kid with ADHD, for example, you're probably going to
notice that that child maybe responds or reacts more negatively
to tablet time or video gaming.

Speaker 13 (01:36:33):
They might fall apart worse afterwards.

Speaker 14 (01:36:36):
And maybe you have another kid who doesn't have ADHD,
who can handle a little more without falling apart.

Speaker 13 (01:36:41):
And there's science to support that.

Speaker 14 (01:36:43):
So take confidence as mom or dad, and no, gosh,
I'm going to make these rules that fit for my
family and my family's values, and I'm not going to
feel stressed about it. But I just really want to
encourage parents there's a way to get back in the
driver's seat, because most parents just feel out of control.

Speaker 1 (01:36:57):
Yeah. Now we are getting into the summer yours. A
lot of kids are already in their summer break, So
it seems like the worst possible time for parents to
start this digital detox. So how do you get started
with this? Like, how do you get the buy in
from the kids, the spouse, everyone.

Speaker 14 (01:37:15):
Actually riche The summer is the best time to start
a digital detox because I promise you you will enjoy
your kids more for the rest of the summer when
they're not a screen zombie. Okay, Like, if your kids
are losing their minds, they're falling apart, they can be
unpleasant to be around when they're amped up on their devices.
But if you can plan out two weeks right at

(01:37:36):
the front end of your summer, most families I help
report that either it's easy immediately, It's like flipping a switch.
That's how it was with my kids. Some families say
the first day or two can be difficult, their kids
are complaining, they're getting used to it. But really, what
you're doing is you're resetting the dopamine levels in your kids' brains,
because these devices are purposefully engineered to release so much

(01:37:58):
dopamine in the brain that, by comparison the dopamine that
kids are getting from things in the real world, it
doesn't even register. So that's what you're doing. You're giving
them a dopamine reset. And now after a couple of days,
after two weeks, now they can look around and actually
enjoy going for a walk or going for a bike ride,
or you know, reading a book.

Speaker 1 (01:38:18):
So you're just reawakening simple things. Oh my gosh, little
how do you? I mean, how do you? I always say,
how do you compare with this world? There's like this
world on your screen is like there's so much going on,
and when you sit down to like read a book
or do something simple or just play in the backyard,
it's like it's also simple. It's like, wait, it doesn't
you know, it doesn't fire all these cylinders. Like you said,

(01:38:38):
the dopamine hit all right, so we got a run.
But one tip, what's a small step parents can take
if they can't go all in on the detox right away,
what's one small step they can take to reduce the
screen overload.

Speaker 14 (01:38:52):
I really recommend you get the book Digital Detalks. I
recommend you do some research. There's a lot of great
research out there. Jonathan Height has a lot of great
data about the effects this technology is having on our kids.
And then I would say, talk with your spouse, have
a conversation about when to do with detox. Even if
you want to do a mini one over a weekend,
you know, talk it through.

Speaker 13 (01:39:13):
I think that if you're.

Speaker 14 (01:39:14):
Trying the same old thing, setting timers, taking it away,
adding on more screen time later for better behavior, it's
not It doesn't work. And I think you know if
you're listening to your parent, that doesn't work because you
need to do a full dopamine reset. So I recommend
doing some research, plan a date, put it on the calendar,
grab a friend, try it.

Speaker 13 (01:39:33):
You won't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
Yeah, I agree, Mollie de Frank. The book is Digital Detox,
the two week Tech Reset for Kids. Now, are you
going to do one for adults next? Because you know
all the things you just mentioned are the same thing
with adults. We can just our brains are just more
engineered to handle all this nonsense.

Speaker 14 (01:39:50):
Check out the last chapter, Rich, it's about digital de
talks for mom and dad.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
Cover there we go. All right, thanks so much for
joining me on the show. Rich on tech dot tv
is the website to go to if you want to
link to Molly to Frank's book. Time to Flip the Switch,
Get those kids off those screens, get them outside, find
some worms under rocks. You're listening to rich on Tech.

(01:40:16):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. We're gonna get to the feedbag.
Oh my gosh, so many you know. I come in
every week with like a million things to talk about.
I don't always get to all of them, but I
do want to mention a couple of things. First off,
there's a new camera app from Adobe called Indigo. This
was developed by two of the original creators of the

(01:40:38):
Pixel and Google camera app. So if you want to
upgrade the camera app on your iPhone, maybe you have
an older iPhone, this will work all the way back
to iPhone twelve pro and up. So yeah, check it out.
It's Indigo. I've been trying it out and it just
gives you a lot more control uses computational photography and
if you like I mean, this may not be for

(01:40:58):
like the casual average, but if you like to edit
things in light room and Adobe, this is probably for you.
So the goal is to give your iPhone photos a
more natural, sl art style look. So again it's called
the Indigo Camera. If you just like to try, you know,
camera apps. That one's really cool. The other one I
was posting a lot of pictures with was the West

(01:41:21):
Camera app on iPhone and it gives your pictures that
old filmic quality. The other thing to look at on
my instagram is why your web browser matters because Duc
Ducco has this new scam blocker feature that can detect
fake online sites, crypto scams, virus pop ups, and yeah,

(01:41:41):
it's really good. It actually works. So if you click
a link on your phone or your computer that is
going to lead you to a website that's going to
try to steal information from you, this will stop it.
And I tested a bogus like a phony website on
both Duc duc Go Chrome and Safari and Brave. Duc
Duco and Chrome blocked the website and said warning, warning, Warning,

(01:42:04):
Safari and Brave let you go right to the website.
So if you're trying to protect yourself from being tricked,
you might want to consider changing your default web browser
on your computer and your phone. And that's on my
instagram at richon Tech you can read more about that.
All right, let's get to the feedback. We've got a
lot to get through. John Wrights In I picked up
a set of shocks Open Run pro to sport headphones

(01:42:26):
at Best Buy phenomenal sound. I got tired of earbuds
jammed in my ears and over the year headphones were
just too bulky for workouts. These are lightweight, stay put,
and you never sweat into them. Definitely worth checking out, John, Yes,
I do love the Shocks Open Run. I don't know
what model number I have, but I've been testing them
out and yeah, they're great because they use what's called

(01:42:49):
bone conduction, so you put them basically, they don't go
in your ears at all. They sit on your face,
like almost right in front of your ears, and then
go around the back of your neck. Yes, they do
sound great. I'm not as good as like traditional air
pods or headphones, like you said, but if you want
to be more aware of your surroundings, you don't want
anything in your ears. That's going to be a great

(01:43:11):
great alternative shocks open run earbuds or headphones. I guess
you call them. Ken writes in I recently bought a
Moto G five G phone and I've been trying over
and over to get the eSIM working with no luck.
I'm using consumer cellular, and eventually they just had to
send me a physical SIM card. Is this a common problem?
By the way, I was born in Manhattan. They used
to love looking across the river at the amusement park

(01:43:32):
on the New Jersey side. I enjoy listening to your show.
Thank you, Ken. Yeah, eSIMs are hit or miss. Sometimes
they work perfectly and flawlessly. Other times. Yeah, you'll get
some issues with them, but I would say for the
majority of people they probably work pretty well. But a
physical SIM offers more flexibility because it can be easily
moved from phone to phone if you're switching phones a lot.

(01:43:55):
But on the flip side, the eSIM is embedded into
the phone, so there's no moving parts, there's nothing to lose,
nothing to pop out, and it's easy to switch theoretically
from one phone to another. So maybe in the future
you can give another run, But you probably want to
go into a physical store if they had one, to
get some help with that next time around. Elizabeth writes

(01:44:17):
in Hey, Rich, I listen to the radio show every week.
I really enjoy it. I'm not tech savvy, but your
show has helped me learn so much. I use all
Mac devices, which I love, but I run a PC
just for my CAD program. Not long ago, you recommended
a great simple printer that scans copies prints. I wrote
it down but lost the note. Could you remind me? Yes,
the simple printer I mentioned was the Brother. Let me

(01:44:37):
make sure this is the right thing that I wrote
down here, this is the brother yep, oh see this
is not it you wanted the one. That's uh. I
got to look in the show notes, but it's been well.
Great question. Great answer your question, because I don't even
have it. Let's see if I can find this. I
see them using up all my feedbag time. Here. Let's

(01:44:57):
see if I can find this quickly. Brother. Here we go. Nope, nope, nope, yep,
here it is. Nope, Okay, I gotta look it up.
But yeah, it's a Brother printer. It's gosh. Okay, Well,
off to come back to that one. Let's go to
Bob writes and I use unique passwords for every site
I visit and rely on a password manager Bitwarden to

(01:45:18):
generate and store them. But today there are login issues
with Bitwarden's US servers, which means that functionality is compromised. Luckily,
I have copies of the really important passwords. Just a reminder.
In the digital world, anything can break, that is true.
The downside of you using a password manager, if you
can't log into it, that could be a problem. So
be sure you save the master password and the recovery password,

(01:45:41):
and you can export your passwords out of there to save.
But you got to be careful because that's usually unencrypted,
and so if you just have that file floating around
in your computer, that could be really bad. So maybe
for your main passwords to like Gmail, Google, Facebook, Microsoft,
maybe keep those written down somewhere in a safe in
your house. Good reminder. Richard and Washington say says, Hey,

(01:46:04):
rich I have a number of friends who use the
blank box. I'm not going to say the name, and
rave about how it lets them watch free content. Is
this legit or is it like Napster? Too good of
a thing to last? Yeah, Richard, I do not recommend
any of these gray market streaming boxes. They usually operate
in a legal gray area, streaming content without proper rights
or licenses. The box itself, the software may not be updated.

(01:46:28):
It could expose you to different things. So I cannot
recommend those in any way, shape or form. Stick to
the legitimate streaming services. Sarah writes in, Hey, Rich, it
seems there's no whisper Flow for Android. Is there anything similar? No,
I have not found a similar app. Whisper Flow is
excellent for voice to text on the iPhone. They are
coming to Android. It's just a matter of when. Gabriel

(01:46:50):
writes in, Hey, my name is Gabriel. I really enjoy
your show. I'm listening on twelve eighty KIT using a
nineteen forty seven tube radio and I love it. Just
wanted to share this thought. I can't imagine what the
CEOs of RCA, Zenith or Ge in the nineteen forties
would think if they saw their product still working in
the twenty twenties broadcasting the rise of AI technology. That

(01:47:12):
is so cool. Thanks for Gabriel from Yakima, Washington. Oh
my gosh. Anna in Long Beach says you can make
the Chevyes sweet corn cake at home chee cheese sweet
corn cake mix from Walmart. Just add butter, water and
water and a can of cream corn bacon and joy.
There you go. And Joel writes in to say he

(01:47:34):
enjoys the newsletter and podcasts and watches me on TV.
He appreciates all the valuable info and just wants to
say thanks. Well, thank you, Joel. Your email made my day.
All right, that's going to do it for this episode
of the show links everything I mentioned on the website.
Rich on tech dot TV. Coming up next week. Todd Weavers,
CEO of Pure Purism. They make privacy first smartphones and

(01:47:56):
one made in the USA. One reminder before I go,
please do not text and drive. Whatever it is, it
can wait. It's not your safety, it's the safety of
everyone around you. Thanks everyone who makes this show possible.
Bobo Kim. My name is rich Dedmiro. I will talk
to you real soon.

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