December 12, 2019 • 45 mins
Google protects your password better in Chrome; A processor change might actually make Android phones worse next year; iOS 13.3 adds even more helpful parental controls; You can now sell your house directly to Zillow; a fire safety device; Hue dimmer switch and an app that turns your iPhone into an old school iPod.Follow Rich:https://www.instagram.com/richontech/Follow Meghan:https://twitter.com/producermeghanRich's Book:https://amzn.to/2soY3F3Chrome Password Security:https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/better-password-protections/Snapdragon 865:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/qualcomms-new-snapdragon-865-is-a-step-backwards-for-smartphone-design/Pixel Features:https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/more-helpful-pixel-features/Sell to Zillow:https://www.zillow.com/offers/Apple Parental Controls:https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/10/ios-13-3-whats-new-features-changes/LifeDoor Fire Gadget:https://ktla.com/2019/12/11/lifedoor-fire-safety-gadget-home-close-bedroom-door/Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer:https://www.instagram.com/p/B5wTYE9lKN5/Rewound Apphttps://apps.apple.com/app/rewound-music-player/id1481219461See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Why next year's Android phones might be a bust. You
can now sell your home directly to Zillow. iPhone gets
some features parents will appreciate, plus the app that turns
your iPhone into an iPod Classic, and of course your
tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
and I answer all of the questions, well, some of
the questions that you send me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Joining me is producer Megan Welcome. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Getting ready for the holidays? That's for sure? Lots of prep?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, are you still prepping somewhat?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We uh, you know, we're still aiding Santa with the list,
so okay, keeping things, keep adding things on little by little.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was in the stores.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I was at the mall yesterday actually, and I still
will say, as much of a tech person i am,
I believe that going to a store is still better
because it's easier. You see, Like I was in the
Amazon store, which is ironic because you could just go
on Amazon. But I was in the Amazon Store and
just found that, like while I was checking out, there's
like five things around the checkout that would be perfect
(01:28):
as gifts. Yeah, and it's stuff that this is. I've
always said this about shopping online. You have to know
exactly what you want. When you're shopping online, there's no browsing.
And if these companies can figure out a good way
of kind of suggesting stuff, I don't know about you,
but I've never looked at the suggestive stuff on Amazon,
like I've never made a purchase based on something that says,
(01:49):
from your previous history, here's what you recommend, Like, I
never bought something. It's so random and so and plus
it doesn't take into consideration like you might have been
buying like something random for a person that you're never
buying for again, like a you know, white elephant gift
or something, and it's like, oh, you would love to
you know, send and you're like, no, that was like
a one time thing. So I still believe that going
(02:09):
into the store, and it actually kind of makes me
sad that Toys Russ is gone, because that's what I
used to do. My wife and I used to go
and just go to Toys Russ and kind of look
around and you get inspired by.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The stuff you see them.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Where do you buy your toys for your kids online.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, Santa buys them, but we gifts, we buy, we
buy a couple of things. Yeah, and I think a
lot of them we we kind of you know, just
go off Amazon. And I think it's just kind of
I don't know. This is the first year that Toys
Russ is gone, so or maybe it was gone last year.
I can't remember, but either way, it's it's it's a thing.
(02:45):
So I think Target is kind of going to benefit
from that. And well for sure because they do have
toy sections. Yeah, and I noticed that the Target toy
section is a lot bigger too. Anyway, Uh, CES is
coming up, I know. Uh, I'm getting a lot of
emails about whether I'm going. Yes, I am going to CES.
I'll be there in Las Vegas. If you want to
get in touch with me and you have like an
(03:06):
issue and you just you know, you have like something.
If you don't have my email address, it's hello at
richon tech dot TV, so you can email me there
getting a lot of pitches, you really only need to
email me once.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will find your email.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I will go through it and if I think I'm interested,
I will definitely get in touch and I'm already doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It is exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Let's talk about the first story of the day. Better
password protections in Chrome. So Chrome has had this feature
since I guess the beginning of the year, called password
check Up.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It was an extension that when you typed.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
A password in it would check your password against a
list of known passwords that are compromised, which sounds kind
of weird, like I don't really want anyone checking my
password against anything, because they have to take my password
and send it across some sort of list that seems
inherently insecure.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But this is Google.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've met the Chrome team that does the security stuff.
They're very smart. Believe me, I do trust them, but
I think this is odd. But now they're taking that
little service called password Checkup, which was an extension, and
they're building it into Chrome. So now Chrome will warn
you if your user name or password has been compromised
in a data breach, and it will tell you, hey,
(04:19):
change this password. Most of my passwords are pretty good,
you know, like other people. I've been known to reuse
a password or two. I'm sure you do. And I
think that's where this comes in handy, is if you
don't realize that you used your password on a random
site that was hacked and you're still using it on
other sites. Chrome is like, hey, buddy, let's go ahead
(04:40):
and like change this up, you know, and it does,
I guess bring some light to this problem. I just
again find it really odd that they're checking my password
against some sort of list. Now, there are websites that
can do this. You can type in your user name
and get on the list. Whenever your email address shows
up on one of these like kind of you know,
(05:01):
these hacked lists will often be dumped online. They call
them like password dumps, and they'll just be like a
whole file of like millions of usernames and email addresses
and if not or sorry user name, email addresses and
passwords if not more. And nowadays, companies are getting better
about kind of keeping things secure, but those are big companies.
Smaller websites may not keep your stuff as secure, which
(05:23):
is why it's important to use a strong password that's
unique for every single website. I'm not worried about Bank
of America's website being hacked, because guess what, they have
the best protection in the world. I'm worried more about
some random photo website you sign up for and they
have your password that you use on Bank of America
and now if they get hacked, your Bank of America's
at risk.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So Chrome should be telling us.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Like today it says it's gradually rolling out, So if
you're signed Intochrome, you can turn it off if you
don't like it under Sync and Google Services, under Chrome
Settings you can change it.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I think for ninety nine percent of people, they're not
going to change it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If my password is not good.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There are ways, there are other uh you know, if
you use like last Pass or Dashlane, they will scan
your passwords and do the same thing. Oh, I guess
it's a it's a known thing, all right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
First question, Okay, first question comes from Amy. Hi, mister Demiro.
I've been watching Katley Morning News since they began, and
I was a teenager back then.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Lol.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm curious of your thoughts on which iPhone to get
my daughter, who's twelve for Christmas. She currently has a
six plus. But do we know which of the new
phones is the sturdiest, the eleven or the pro? Which
would you choose for your child? She is very responsible
and earns all A's very good.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, good for her, But here's my thing. How old
is she? Twelve? Okay, so twelve is probably the age
I think I got.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
My first phone, but it was a flip phone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, well that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Was a different time, so I was like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I was two years ago. Yeah, I think iPhones were
out two years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So this is something I struggle with. I think a
lot of parents struggle with. And A, it's awesome that
you're getting her the newest phone, but bottom line is
she doesn't need anything more than the iPhone eleven.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, she does not need the.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Pro unless she's a budding YouTube star and she needs
like all those pro features, which, when you really think
about the Pro features, the only differential between the iPhone
eleven and the Pro Max or the Pro rather is
you get a telephoto lens, which means when you zoom
in it's gonna theoretically look better. You still get the
wide angle on the eleven. And the other thing is
(07:33):
you get slightly better battery life and you get a
better screen.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Those are not enough for a twelve year old to
go over into the Pro.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She's like a photographer then maybe, but.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Even that it's like you're you're still getting the same camera.
I mean, except for the telephoto. A lot of times
people think that you're not getting the wide angle with
the eleven. You are, Oh, you're just not getting the zoom.
And it's not as if you can't zoom in your phone.
You can, it's just not gonna be as clear like
high zooms. So I think go for the eleven. And
you're asking.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What the best like what she say? What was the
word she used.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The most sturdiest?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So I mean neither.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, if she's an eleven, she's a twelve year
old kid, She's gonna drop it a thousand times. I
would recommend a case, and I think she needs a
good case, like not just like an.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Apple case, like screen protector.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Screen protector. So we like tech armor, well I do.
I like tech Armor as a screen protector, and for
a case, I would go the Spec Presidio Grip or
some sort of Spec Grip. Tech twenty one is also
really good. Anything that is rated for a drop protection
of like ten feet or more. You can't just get
one of those cases that are you know, the nice
case that looks great that just kind of protects it
(08:44):
from scratches. You want something that protects from drops, yes,
and yeah, your case does not do.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That, like an Amazon case for ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But the case I have that I really like too
is called smartish. I think it's called like Kung Fu grip,
and so it's really grippy on the sides, which is
really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And it also has a lip.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So if you look at your case and you notice
that it comes up over the phone, that means that
it's gonna better protect your phone in the event of
a drop. So yours has a little bit of a lip,
but it's not it's not one that's rated for drop,
I can tell.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So good question.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
All right, Okay, so we talked about this in last
week's podcast. And remember I told you about the trip
to Maui that Qualcom brought everyone off minus me, and
so I was a little bitter.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Obviously you couldn't take the time off.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But I also mentioned something about that trip, and I
said something about everyone was super excited about all the
things that Qualcom was introducing at this event. But I said,
it's interesting because it's kind of tough to sift through
the hype of being in Maui for free and report,
quote unquote reporting about all the stuff and actually kind
(09:54):
of giving some good analysis of what Qualcom is doing.
And they launched their new chip there, which is the
Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five. So leave it to ours
Technica to have an unbiased person to talk about this.
Ron Now I'm gonna kill his last name, Amadeo.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Amadeo.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Wait, oh yeah, I'm Amadeo.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Okay, I think So.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Leave it to good old Ron, who I've I've read
his stuff many times. He gets real and he has
a great article and here's what the headline is, the
Snapdragon eight six y five will make phones worse in
twenty twenty. So leave it to him to actually give
us some real analysis over this issue. Of everyone that
went to this event was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Just raw rah rah rah rah rah raw Qualcomm.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Everyone was talking it up.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Everyone that went, okay free right now. Ron, it did
not seem like he went, but he followed the news.
Or maybe he did go and maybe he paid his
own way.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But here's what his thesis is of his article. This
is the first time so Qualcomm is so hot for
five G that's like the big next kind of next
frontier for smartphones. Right, and we've heard a lot about it.
It's going to be the next It means for wireless companies,
lots of money. For us, it means speedier connections. But
our connections are already pretty good. Yeah, we'd like a
(11:13):
more Instead of speedier connections, we'd probably like a more
solid connection in more places, like everywhere, Like when I'm
getting on the plane.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I you know that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I don't know if you've ever gotten on a plane lately.
You never have a connection, never when you're in.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
When you're in your seat.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, it's crazy. So here's the thesis of his article.
He says, it's unusual because this new chip that basically
goes in every Android phone for the first time in
seven years, does not have a modem on board.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So what does that mean.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The modem is in a separate chip, which it's a
bundled modem five G and four G, and the modem
is what allows the phone to talk to the network,
so you kind of have to have it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But what he's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Saying is that because it's a separate chip, a lot
of these phones that don't need five G still have
it bundled in. Now, basically, Qualcom's forcing it on everyone,
And so his idea is that these phones are going
to be bigger than they have to be, They're going
to use way more energy than they have to They're
just going to be sloppier than they need to be
(12:13):
because it's a mess. And I think that's an interesting
take because and I think this has gotten a little
debate online. I think people are getting a little saucy
about it because, yeah, none of the people that went
to the event, like seemed to bring this up except
for him, and now they're kind of debating him on this.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now this is his opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, but he does bring up a phone from the past,
which was the HTC Thunderbolt, and it was the first
four G phone with a separate modem, and he said
it was a disaster. It was hot, it was a slow,
it was a buggy mess, and the battery life was terrible.
So I think he has a great point here, and
I think that he actually brings up a Snapdragon press release.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Snap Dragon is the brand of Qualcomm's chips. He brings
up this.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Press release from twenty twelve when the company switched over
to single chip solutions and said, typically, the more chips
that are involved in building device the more challenging it is.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To conserve battery.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay, so he's kind of putting Qualcomm's own words against them.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Six years later, seven years later, eight.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Years later, the chip that's the chip, I don't know
if that's the exact one that looks very big. Oh
the little time Okay, Oh yeah, see that's what I'm
talking about. All these people on Instagram are shown off.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The ship's tag ad here in Mallie. Yeah, the Qualcum
snap Dragon Summit.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Anyway, So I interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I think it's a great article to read ours Technico
dot Com. We'll see what happens this year. But I
will say this, all the five G phones, from what
I've seen, I've I've tested only the one from Sprint,
but from what I've seen, everyone is agreeing that they're
just not there yet.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The networks are not there yet. So five G lots
of hype, not a lot of delivery just yet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Megan, all right, Okay, So this next question comes from
Pat and he asks is honey dot com safe to use?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was confused because I googled, like honey dot com.
This is like a honeywebsite. Is he talking about the
chrome extension?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
He's talking about the Chrome extension. Okay, yeah, Honey dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Is not I think the website to make Honey like.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The National Honeyboard. Yeah, that's why, so join Honey dot com.
This is a Chrome extension that does all the automatic
coupon codes and all that good stuff. They were just
purchased by PayPal for something like four billion dollars. So
clearly PayPal SyES a lot of potential in this, but
their potential might be more seen in how they can
(14:37):
monetize users of this gadget or this software, and not
necessarily how much it benefits those users.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So I've downloaded Honey in the past.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I will say I don't use it. I have found
that it's just not as good as some of the
other stuff out there. And you've heard me talk about
some other ones. So what am I going to recommend? Megan?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh oh?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Shoot starts with the w oh yeah wiki by by,
So I like wiki by. I find that they have
the best coupon codes that work many many times. And
the other one that I would check out is a
brand new one from slick Deals, and slick Deals I
find is not as automatic as wikiby, but it searches
all of slick Deals, which is this great crowdsource website
(15:18):
for deals.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And it does unearth a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A little bit more it does automatically apply the coupon
codes to check out, but I find sometimes you may
have to go into like their offers and see what
other people are posting about. Okay, but those are the
two that I recommend Honey for all the hype. Just
I feel like, here's what I think Honey did right
and why I think PayPal bought them. They had probably
the most deals with companies, So if I'm a Macy's,
(15:43):
they had a big team that would work with Macy's
and be like, oh, let's get your codes into this app.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But realistically, what I like about.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Wikibi is it's much more crowd generated, and I feel
like that's what gives it better codes. Because when you
use a code, Megan that you find somewhere. Let's say
someone mails you a code to your house, you type
it in wiki by notices that and they say, oh,
we're gonna use that code for the next person, and
the next person gets that code automatically if it doesn't
work for them. Let's say it was a unique code
just for Megan, it takes it out of the running.
(16:11):
Whereas if you've ever gone to like these retail me
not and these offers dot com, you sit there and
you try one hundred codes, none of them work.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, you have to like sign in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's not good. So that's why I like wiki by
and slick deals.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Check those out, all right, Meghan, If you're selling your
house anytime soon, you can now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Sell it direct to Zillow. Oh, which is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And this is kind of the next frontier of buying
or buying in or selling a home is probably the
biggest financial thing that anyone does in their lifetime. Yeah,
and it is complicated. It's a lot of steps, there's
a lot of people involved, there's a lot of fees involved,
there's a lot of third party transactions, all kinds of
(16:53):
stuff that you have to do, and usually you have
someone to walk you through it, like you're broker or
your real estate agent, whatever that person is. But the
holy grail of this house kind of thing has always
been like one click online, yeah and just it's gone.
Your house is sold. So Zillo is basically doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So they're getting rid of like real estate agents.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well they're not doing that because Zillo still makes a
majority of their money based on referrals, which is, you know,
you go on Zilo to see how much your house
is worth and you end up getting a real estate
agent or referral. So I don't think they're doing away
with them, but they are. They are definitely streamlining the
process in a way that may or may not take off.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We don't know if this is going to work right.
They've started it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
La is their latest market and San Diego. They have
it in twenty two other markets which they've been doing this.
But LA is the nation's second largest housing market and
it's also the biggest market where they've tried this in Phoenix.
There's a lot of transactions. LA is very unique because
the homes are way more expensive than these other markets,
and it's also trickier, Like it's very unique to like
(17:56):
find a home in LA. It's not just like kind
of a cookie cutter area. There's so many neighborhoods and
there's so many different places that people want to buy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So here's how it works.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You go on Zilo and you request a fair market
value offer on your home, and you get that within
forty eight hours. You answer some questions about your house,
like when the last time you painted it, well, you know,
what's this? That whatever, And it'll give you an offer
in about forty eight hours. Then you can decide if
you want to take that offer and continue and move forward,
(18:27):
or you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can just say no way.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, if you take the offer, it doesn't immediately sell
your house. You still have to talk to a person
that comes to your house, inspects it, and says, okay, well,
you know you got to do this and that to
fix this up. So here's the thing that I think
people might have an issue with. Normally, when you let's
say you're buying my house, you send your inspector, he
inspects the house, he says it needs fifty thousand dollars
(18:49):
worth of repairs. You come to me and you say, hey,
you got to knock fifty thousand dollars off the price. Yeah,
and I say I'll knock forty five off and you say,
okay deal. The way the Zilo thing works is they
say how much you have to hate for repairs, like
how much let's say my house is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Worth of repairs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They will say we're just gonna take that off your offer,
and they handle the repairs. They handle everything, and as
far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like there's
a big negotiation there where I can say, like, come on,
because it's it's transactional. They're dealing in big transactions here.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, lots of houses, So could.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You do this just to see how much they think
your house is worth? Like could I like, I don't know,
like if you might not want to sell, but you
might want to just know how much your house is
worth because it changes all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, And Zillow and Redfinn do that already. You can
go on there and they give you an estimate. They're
not very accurate. So I think that having this person
come out to your house and kind of look at
it would give you But I don't I think there's
probably I mean, yes, some people do that and just
see and be like I never mind. But it's probably
a little bit more work than like for the average
person to just like casually see.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But yes, people will do that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Cool, And anyway, I find it as a tech person
who has seen the inner that kind of change all businesses.
Some of these larger, more human touch businesses are really
tough to change. Buying a book online through Amazon versus
Barnes and Noble, super easy. You know the title of
the book, you type it in. It comes to your house.
Buying a house is a little bit different or selling
a house.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Or leasing an apartment. Like some apartments just don't come
up on like Zilo and you have to actually like
explore a neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And wow, that's a whole nother that's a whole other issue.
That's that's more west side rentals kind of having a
big handle on the market and also brokers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Like when I was in New York City, I couldn't
believe that you can't find a rental online. There's no
such thing.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's a mess.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's a person that you have to call and they
have your rental and it's a whole big mess.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It was the worst.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, you have to pay like a broker fee or something.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, you have to pay like a I think it
was like a month of your rental to this person
that helps you find a place. Now, if all the
information was just online, you know, those people would all
be out of a job.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, but it's it's kind of some businesses have not
changed very much because of the Internet.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
All right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Okay. This next question comes from Patricia wondering what your
thoughts are regarding purchasing through Rakotin. Oh, what is rat.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's really weird and I've seen really weird. It's just
a weird name, right, Yeah, it's strange.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So let's see there's a there's a they have a
little pronunciation thing on the website because it's so is
that how.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You say it? Is that? No idea Rakotin? Because I
had to look this up to see what the deal
with Rakotin is? Is how you say it? Let's see,
so raccoon long as.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The short of it is is that it used to
be called Ebates rack rack tin.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Here, here's the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Pronunciation racketin racketin, racketin racketin racketin so like rack, Like
you know, something's on a rack racketin So I guess
that's a Now, this is a Japanese company and it
used to be called Ebates, and Ebates is one of
these things that like you sign up, all your transactions
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go through them, so you go to like, instead of
going to Macy's dot com, you go to Ebates dot com.
Click through on the Macy's link and then shop and
then you get a percentage of your total back as
an ebate, almost like a rebate and so racketin same thing,
same exact kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's all the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Sometimes you get more back at places than others.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But a lot of people do this.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They you know, they do all their shopping through here,
so they get like one percent.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Pack the thing. Okay, here's how it works.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The store with the kind of larger price differential, So
somewhere like a Macy's. If you see a shirt at
Macy's it says MSRP eighty dollars, that shirt may sell
for fifteen dollars at the end of the day with
all the discounts that they offer. Wow, something like Amazon,
you're not going to find a lot of discounts. Like
whatever it sells for it sells for same thing with Walmart.
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So when you shop at those places, you're gonna get
a tiny percentage because they're margin is a lot smaller.
When you shop at Macy's, you're gonna get a bigger percentage.
So that's kind of how these things work. And is
it safe.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, it's totally safe, and it's it's to me it's
a little bit of a rigamarole. Yeah, that word.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So like sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's kind of like a lot of workamarole.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's kind of a it's like a Southern thing. I
think I learned it down there. It's like it's kind
of like a lot of work for little return. And
to me, it just seems like it's just a little
bit too much.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Work for me.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But if it works for you, it's absolutely fine. But
it's a totally legit company and they're they're it's a
Japanese company that's pretty big, and now they just I
guess they bought Ebates or they had ebaits and now
they're just using that name to make it one thing
across the world.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, I like e Baits, though maybe it's eBay.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They don't want to like maybe I think, yeah, maybe
that or just Ebates. Yeah, Ebates was pretty big and
now it's just gone.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
All right, So, uh, let's talk about Apple.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
If you have an iPhone, they have a new version
of iOS again, iOS thirteen point three. And I'm just
telling you this because there is a new version, are
new features that are good for parents. There are now
support for communication limits in screen time. And what this
means is that during screen time you can allow communication, well,
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you can set where you can restrict communication to only
certain people. So that means if you have downtime set
from five pm to seven pm every night, while your
kid does their homework, they can't call anyone on their
phone except you. They can't message anyone except you, they
can't FaceTime anyone except you. And that's the main feature
that I think is interesting for parents. And this is
(24:42):
good because the more you have your kids on these devices,
you know, it is a nightmare. My kids are always
asking for more screen time. They're always finding ways of
getting around screen time. They have every trick in the
book to try to convince me to let them on
their iPad more.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Everyone's so addicted.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
They really are, Like you had this tiny little age,
and it's kind of sad. Like my kid just got
into Minecraft and he's five, oh no, and he's obsessed
playing Minecraft. And when he's not playing Minecraft on the iPad,
he's watching Minecraft on TV. Yeah, it's just absolutely insane.
So that's the future I just wanted to tell you
about when it comes to the iPhone. So if you
have a kid, check it out iOS thirteen point three
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under the screen time you can now restrict communication.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
This is a good question. This is from Carlow hi Rich.
With the last update by Apple, all my personal photos
in my Mac have changed from jpeg to IMG h
e C. How can I convert all my photos back
to jpeg. I'm unable to share any of my photos
now because of the change I.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Would be now. I just don't think that all his
photos he or she?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Uh, Carlo Okay, I.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Just don't know if the photos changed. I don't see
Apple changing all your photos.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It's new photos.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking we've.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Changed to AHTIC only when you airdrop.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, it usually it changes it to jpeg when you
airdrop to keep to keep it compatible.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But here's what's going on Apple.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
In their latest iPhone they changed a default setting so
in an effort to Jpeg is great, it's been around forever.
It's not very good when it comes to image formats
compared to what we have now, which is hi C
and HIC is a smaller file and better quality. Oh
and so that's why Apple wants to use it, and
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so they have switched on the iPhone, and it's been
around on the iPhone for a couple of years, but
it wasn't a default, and now with the new iPhone,
I believe it's the default. It was onmine, And so
you start taking pictures and all of a sudden, when
you go to share it with someone or do something
or download it to your computer or air drop it,
all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's an HGIC.
Now when you share it through like text messaging to
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another person, I.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Believe it does change it to a JPEG.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So it's like it's very confusing because sometimes it works
just fine. Yeah, but other times I was like trying
to upload a picture like Twitter and it was like, no.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Can't take it, And I was like, wait what.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So I don't think that iPhoto changed all of your
old pictures to HIC. I think you're looking at What
probably happened is when he got the new iphot, he
probably looked at a few pictures at the beginning of
his timeline and was like, wait, what's this new achiic
and maybe didn't look back to the beginning. Now I
could be wrong on that. I don't use iPhoto on
the computer or photos as it's called now, but I
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think that's what they did. Okay, So a couple things here.
Number one, you can change the default on your phone
back to just jpeg if you don't want to do that,
So you can go into settings and you go into
camera and under uh oh did they change it now?
Formats there's camera capture, and there's high efficiency, and there's
(27:57):
most compatible. So if you leave it in high face,
it's gonna do the the uh h I C and
so if you don't do that, then it's going to
do the other thing.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But you can air drop HIC to another person.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, if they have an iPhone that supports it. So
if you go to try to do it, you know,
it just depends where you're sending stuff. So if you're
sending it to your computer, uh, that's where you kind
of get into some problems. Like I was trying to
upload a picture to WordPress and HIC and it was like, no, dice, right,
we don't word press. Ye, But it depends how the
website is configured, because it seems like I feel like
on my personal website it does work.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I don't know. Anyway, it's very confusing. So you can
change the format, or.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What I do is I downloaded a little app called
I Amazing HIC Converter. I M A Z I n
g HIC Converter. I'm not sure if it costs money
or not, but it was in the app Store and
I use it. You just drag and drop an HIC
onto it and it will transform it into a JPEG
super easy.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's kind of a one off thing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So if you're just like for me, when I'm uploading
pictures to the webs, I will just drop them in
there and then I'll upload them. And I'm keeping my
stuff in HGIC because I feel like it's a better
format because it's not as universal right now, but it's
more efficient and I like when things change and I
like when things move ahead. JPEG's been around forever. Clearly
someone came up with this to be better, and I'm
(29:19):
kind of sticking to it. Yeah, sop, Yeah, it's a
little more work, but it's like, yeah, I would assume
it's better. Hopefully it sticks around and it's not like, oh,
there's no more, no more support for this.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, well I don't think that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hopefully not all right, Pixel owners, if you have a
pixel which I'm assuming that's one of you.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Not many people do, but it's still it's still.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Look, the Pixel is not a widely popular phone, but
people that have it really do like it, and they
like it because it is smart. It's smart, and it's
one hundred percent Google. And when you use this thing,
you realize just how smart a phone can be.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Period. That's why people like it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So the latest Pixel, the Pixel four, was getting a
little bit of flack online because people were saying that
Samsung was getting updates out faster than the Pixel, and
generally Pixel gets its updates before every other.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Phone on the Android world.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, I guess this is why Google is doing this
new thing called Pixel feature drop, And I think it's
an effort to get people away from thinking about Android
as only getting security updates. Because people obsess about these
security updates on Pixel. They're like, why am I getting
my security update? Google does them every month. Other manufacturers
have kind of fallen in line with that now, but
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it puts a lot of pressure on them to do this.
So I think that Google is trying to say your
phone is not just about software updates when it comes
to security. We also want to do this thing called
Pixel feature drops, and these feature drops add new features
to your device. And a couple of new features they're
adding that are notable are you can now turn on
(30:58):
portrait mode at any time in Google Photos, even after
you took the picture.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And I tried this out. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You take a picture, just a normal picture, and you
go into Google Photos and you say blur and it
blurs the background and it's at any time, which is
kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, so it gives you more creativity. So that's kind
of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It says, whether you took the photo years ago or
forgot to turn on portrait mode, you can easily give
an artistic look with portrait blur and Google Photos, So
that's cool. The next feature is about robo calls. Now,
Google Assistant is going to detect robo calls before your
phone even rings. So on the Pixel they would have
(31:35):
this thing where when your phone rang, it would say
suspected spam and you would press a button and send
that call to a special little call screener that would
automatically say something like hi, I'm rich as Google Assistant,
please tell me why you're calling, and in real time
you would see what they say transcribe to your phone
screen and then you would have the option to see
if it's like we have a great telemarketing offer for you,
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you would just hang up on them.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So now they're taking that step further.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You don't have to do that step of actually listening
to the call and wasting your time. You can let
the system do it and screen it, and it will
screen it out automatically. If it's not a robo call,
your phone will ring a few moments later with who's
calling and why, So it kind of like basically screens
your calls for you like a assistant would like a
real assistant. So that's one thing. The other thing that
(32:22):
they're doing that's kind of cool is they're now recording
those calls. So you can turn on a feature on
your pixel to record the call. And if you record
the call, sometimes he's called it pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Uh, it's I'm assuming. How they get.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Around it is they say this call will be recorded.
As long as you say that, yeah, the other person
has the option to hang up.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You have to disclose that. Yeah. It's kind of like
when you call a company.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
To you know, they say this call maybe recorded.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Same thing you're you're not verbally giving your okay to that.
But by saying that and you're not hanging up, that means.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Smart that it's okay, okay. This is a funny question
from Jason. I think it's funny. Maybe it's not very funny,
but he said, I just bought a new Samsung sixty
five inch led Q sixty series smart TV from Best Buy,
and all my friends tell me that hackers can get
into my TV to spy on me. Lol. Anyway to
(33:16):
prevent that or what is the best way to secure
me and my family from TV hackers? I just think
it's funny. All his friends are like, Oh, you're gonna
get hacked. It's not gonna I mean, we talked about
this last week.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna be It's
not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
But he seemed to have a good sense of humor. Yeah,
did he drop an lol in there?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He dropped he dropped an lol?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, So I think he's tongue in cheek. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I think he's saying, like, rich, really, am I going
to be hacked here? And the short answer is probably not.
But with that said, we talked about this last week.
The FBI out of Oregon had this crazy warning about
smart TV's. I went on that Daily Mail show to
talk about it, you know, to talk about the idea
that look are hackers are always looking for ways in
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and they're looking for easy kind of hacks, and TVs
could be easy, and so they could do fun things
like change your channels whatever, all these crazy things that
they just think is funny. But what's the end game.
The end game would be to break into your network.
And long story, I don't know the reality is is
this going to happen? Probably not.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
But with that said, I'll tell you what you need
to do.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Number one, if you're not using the smart TV aspects,
turn off the Wi Fi that'll keep your TV off
the network. Update your software as much as you can
so you know, if Samsung's putting out updates, always update
it because usually those software updates are adding new features,
but primarily they're there for adding you know, safety. Yeah,
like security, like patching security holes. And the other thing
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is whatever password you use for your router and your
internet and or your TV, make it a strong one.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
That's also unique. That's it. I think you'll be fine
with this TV. Yeah, I would be more concerned.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
With a smart TV about all the data they're collecting
about you as you watch. That is much more pressing
to me than having some random hacker target Joe Schmoe's
house because they want to get access to his TV.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I mean for what reason?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So I would be more concerned about all the apps
that you're using and all the data that you're feeding
to those apps. Yeah, and that's really what's happening. Craig Ray,
all right, So, Megan, we went on this story for
a gadget called the Life Door. Yes, and this is
a gadget. So I did not know that fire safety
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professionals or fire experts recommend sleeping with your bedroom door closed.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I never heard that same. Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
No? Right, okay, no, I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
So this firefighter told us that, and I thought that
was interesting, and he explained it because it is.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
It basically helps the fire stay out of your room,
which makes sense. If you're in a hotel room, they
say put like towels under the door in case of
a fire, which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You don't want smoke coming in, so they don't say
open the.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Door, open the door and let the fire in.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It just makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
There's a lot of oxygen in your room. A closed
door or would keep at least some sort of barrier
between you and a fire. Whether how long that barrier lasts,
we don't know. But what he's saying is by having
it closed, just even if that barrier keeps things better
for a minute or two or ten or fifteen, of
course it's better, yeah, which just makes sense.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, keeps more fumes out.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
So a lot of kids don't want to sleep in
their bedroom door closed, including mine. I don't sleep with
my bedroom door close. I always we grew up in
a house where we always had them all open, So
I don't know, it's just weird. Like there were some
houses like when I went, you know, sleepovers, the kids
would close their door.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
And you're like, oh, that's weird. It just depends how
you grow up.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, So this Device to Life door is kind of
a ratchet. It has like a ratchet mechanism. You install
it on the back of the door and you kind
of open the door once to kind of activate it,
and then once you do, it has this little microphone
inside and it listens for the sound of a smoke
alarm and when it hears that very standard sound of
a smoke alarm. It goes into action and it snaps
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the ratchet and it closes the door.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And that's it. It's all to us, very simple.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
You can reopen the door, doesn't lock, the door closed,
doesn't do anything weird like that. It also has a
light on it so you can see kind of where
the door is if they're smoking the room. It also
makes its own alarm sound. Yeah, so a lot of
kids will sleep through smoke alarms, so this is kind
of a secondary alarm in their room right to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Wake them up, to wake them up hopefully.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I did a story back when I was in Louisiana
where we tested the idea of kids sleeping through smoke alarms,
and I could not believe these kids. Middle of the night,
we went, you know, I had to stay up late,
you know, we went to this house. We set up
cameras and we put the smoke alarm on and the
kids slept right through it.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Oh. I couldn't believe it. Could not believe it.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
That's interesting that you've done a story on that.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah, I actually need to find my story because it
was it is. You know you do that, you I've
done hundreds, if not thousands of stories in my career
so far. This one I could remember like yesterday because
it was something that just etched my head like wow, like.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Freaked you out a little bit. Yeah, so funny. I'm
a really hard sleeper, but I don't sleep through smoke alarms.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You you've woken up to a smoke alone?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Oh yeah? So, I mean so our batteries like always die.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But those are like chirps. Though, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
A chirp you that still wakes me up? That's great?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Then that's good.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, it's good. That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
In the future, I well, I don't know if people
don't really wear their Apple watches to sleep, but in
the future they'll probably do a thing where your Apple
watch will also vibrate.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
To wake you up or you fit it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, because all this stuff is getting I think that
these companies tread a little bit lightly in this area
because think about it. Let's say your watch doesn't go off.
Next thing, you know, Apple's getting sued because your connection.
So I do think that this is probably the reason
why fire systems have not evolved very much, because I
bet there's a lot of litigation, you think, so, I
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think so even with this device, because you might argue
that like it puts you at risk, or you couldn't
get out of you room where your kids couldn't open
the door once.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I don't know, Yeah, I know you're right, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Just thinking that it's anyway, So it's one hundred and
thirty dollars, which is very expensive when you think about
something that you add to your house, not when you
think about in terms of saving a life, but for
the average person that's just putting stuff around their house,
one hundred and thirty dollars a lot to spend, especially.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
If you have three or four doors that you're putting
this on.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So I think that's probably its biggest impediment to success
right now. But if it is a device that a
big company thinks is necessary, like one of these big
fire alarm companies or smoke alarm companies, they may buy
this company and make these things at a cheaper price.
And I always say, like in a corporate atmosphere in buildings,
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there's always if you look at a door in a
corporate system, not this one, but a lot of them,
well they call them fire doors. If you look in
the upper corner of the door, you'll notice it's connected
by magnet to the back of the wall, and what
happens is in a fire, that magnet demagnetizes closing that
door and it becomes a fire barrier. And so these
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big corporations are doing these big companies are doing it.
They're obviously protecting their assets in the building, people and
also the building itself. But it goes to show that
this guy's onto something.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Totally. Okay, we got one more question, Megan, make it quick.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
This is from Josie. How do I delete an individual
from a group text that was sent?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh? You can't, you can you can't.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I thought we've had this.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We've had this conversation. I think you can leave the conversation.
You can't remove someone else.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Oh but okay, I think.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You can leave. Yeah, I think that's it. Go ahead,
try it.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Let me just find it.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I looked on my phone to see like a group text,
so I have a lot of mixed group text, which
like Android and iOS. So number one, Josie, if you're
talking iPhone, if there's an Android person on that text
at all, you can't do it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh you can do it.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Oh you can't. See I tried it online. It did
not work. Oh, interesting, I guess maybe the.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Person was then.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I know, I'm assuming she's iPhone iPhone. Okay, So I
tried it with you and Luis. We have a group
conversation and it would not let me delete one of you.
So maybe you have to be the person that created
the group.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Oh, that's probably what it is. That's probably so.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I don't because it just seems like I'm going here,
this has six people in it, and yeah, I can't swipe.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
See I can't, Okay, So it must be if you
created it.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Maybe if you create it, I think there are some
caveats to this.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
But I didn't create this.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
See, that's what I'm saying. It's all and does it
let you delete it, delete the person?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah, but I'm not gonna actually do it.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well, but you can swipe left to do it, okay,
And you didn't create that group. See, I'm it's very confusing.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
It is confused anyway.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The way you do it, if you can do it,
here's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
If you can go into your message the group message,
tap up at the top where it has all the
pictures of the people, tap info and then where the
person is just swipe right to left on them and
if it brings up delete, you can delete it. If not,
then there's either an Android person or something else going
on that you can't do it. If you're on Android,
you can't really do that, And on Android you can
do a lot more things like hide the entire alerts
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from that message forever. On iOS, if you can can't
leave the group or you can't delete someone, you can
just swipe left on the message and say hi to
alerts and that won't can't be any more alerts.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Souh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
The group text thing is interesting because I have my family.
I have a couple of them that I'm in that like,
especially my family, if they get going, it's like NonStop,
and it could be really tough because like you're doing
something like I'm eating dinner or whatever, and like it's
just boom boo boom. Or I've got a group of
friends that, like, you know, all of a sudden, they'll
just start talking and you're not really involved in the
common kine.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
It stresses me out a little bit. I'm like, I
don't like this right now.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
And I never mute the notifications because like it's just
too much work. So I end up just like having
my watch vibran.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I do do. I like that.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
I mute the convo because I'm like, I can't do
this right now, and then they'll be like are you
there and I'm like, no, well not really.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yep, in general or in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
All right, two things before we go, I just want
to mention I tried out this smart bulb dimmer which
I thought was really cool.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
It's called Aurora. It's from Lutron.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
If you have Hugh lights in your house, this is
a dimmer switch you should check out. It is so
easy to install. It literally just goes onto your light switch,
you turn the light switch on, You screw this thing down.
It stays in place somehow, I don't know how, and
next thing you know, you now have a roll a
rocker dimmer where you can like or a circular dimmer
where you can turn the lights on and off or
(43:18):
tap to turn them on off. And it only works
with Hugh lights. But if you have Hugh lights in
your house, check it out. It's forty bucks. You can
add a dimmer switch to any room. It's called the
Lutron Aurora.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Lutron tried to send this to me for probably months,
and I kept saying no, no, no, no, no, I
don't want to try anything like this. And finally I've
read it like three times, it was like, actually, that
sounds kind of cool. Try it, and I'm in love
with it now, so I love it. That's number one.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
If you want to transform your iPhone into an iPod Classic,
check out an app called Rewound.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
It's just fun. It's free. It's just just check it out.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's called rewound, and it transforms your iPhone into an
iPod Classic with that click wheel that you scroll through.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
It's just so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
You just if you had, if you had an iPod Classic,
you gotta try it out. I should have hashtaged it
I posted to my Instagram. I did not hashtag TBT today,
Oh missed opportunity. Thursday hashtag missed opportunity.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It's fine, all right, Thanks so much for listening. If
you have not, thanks to you, by the way, for
everyone who has purchased a copy of my book one
and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, I'm getting the reviews
are starting to trickle in which I love it. If
you've bought a copy and you love it. Please leave
a review on Amazon that helps other people find it
and discover it and also know that it's great and
(44:33):
the reviews have been awesome.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Thank you so much. It's just made my day.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It's a number one iPhone guide on Amazon, especially during
the holidays. That is pretty amazing. I am doing a
lot on Instagram these days, so please if you're not
following me there, follow me there.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I am at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
My goal, new goal, Megan, is to post one cool
video a day. I don't know if I'm gonna be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Because that's hour. Yeah, every hour.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I didn't say every day. I said every hour of
an hour. It's tough to do, but I have been
doing it and I just love it. So if you
see those videos, like them, comments, share with your friends,
all that good stuff. I'm always trying different things on
there to see what people like. There's no look, I'm
not an expert in any of this stuff, believe me,
long way, but I've come a.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Long way, thanks in no small part to you.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
No, I mean, we do like all of it.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
So, producer Megan, where can people find you?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
I am on Twitter at producer Megan.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
So easy see that.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
So easy.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
That's gonna do it for today's show. Can you believe
the show is over? I'm gonna go back to wrapping
Christmas presents now, Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
That's about it.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Actually, I'll probably do that right before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
The website is rich on tech dot tv. If you
like this podcast, if you learned anything at all, give
it a review in the iTunes. They don't even call
it that anymore now, it's just called the podcast app podcast.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Thanks so much for listening. We'll talk to you real soon.
Why next year's Android phones might be a bust. You
can now sell your home directly to Zillow. iPhone gets
some features parents will appreciate, plus the app that turns
your iPhone into an iPod Classic, and of course your
tech questions answered.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
and I answer all of the questions, well, some of
the questions that you send me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Joining me is producer Megan Welcome. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Getting ready for the holidays? That's for sure? Lots of prep?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, are you still prepping somewhat?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We uh, you know, we're still aiding Santa with the list,
so okay, keeping things, keep adding things on little by little.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was in the stores.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I was at the mall yesterday actually, and I still
will say, as much of a tech person i am,
I believe that going to a store is still better
because it's easier. You see, Like I was in the
Amazon store, which is ironic because you could just go
on Amazon. But I was in the Amazon Store and
just found that, like while I was checking out, there's
like five things around the checkout that would be perfect
(01:28):
as gifts. Yeah, and it's stuff that this is. I've
always said this about shopping online. You have to know
exactly what you want. When you're shopping online, there's no browsing.
And if these companies can figure out a good way
of kind of suggesting stuff, I don't know about you,
but I've never looked at the suggestive stuff on Amazon,
like I've never made a purchase based on something that says,
(01:49):
from your previous history, here's what you recommend, Like, I
never bought something. It's so random and so and plus
it doesn't take into consideration like you might have been
buying like something random for a person that you're never
buying for again, like a you know, white elephant gift
or something, and it's like, oh, you would love to
you know, send and you're like, no, that was like
a one time thing. So I still believe that going
(02:09):
into the store, and it actually kind of makes me
sad that Toys Russ is gone, because that's what I
used to do. My wife and I used to go
and just go to Toys Russ and kind of look
around and you get inspired by.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The stuff you see them.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Where do you buy your toys for your kids online.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Well, Santa buys them, but we gifts, we buy, we
buy a couple of things. Yeah, and I think a
lot of them we we kind of you know, just
go off Amazon. And I think it's just kind of
I don't know. This is the first year that Toys
Russ is gone, so or maybe it was gone last year.
I can't remember, but either way, it's it's it's a thing.
(02:45):
So I think Target is kind of going to benefit
from that. And well for sure because they do have
toy sections. Yeah, and I noticed that the Target toy
section is a lot bigger too. Anyway, Uh, CES is
coming up, I know. Uh, I'm getting a lot of
emails about whether I'm going. Yes, I am going to CES.
I'll be there in Las Vegas. If you want to
get in touch with me and you have like an
(03:06):
issue and you just you know, you have like something.
If you don't have my email address, it's hello at
richon tech dot TV, so you can email me there
getting a lot of pitches, you really only need to
email me once.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will find your email.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I will go through it and if I think I'm interested,
I will definitely get in touch and I'm already doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It is exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Let's talk about the first story of the day. Better
password protections in Chrome. So Chrome has had this feature
since I guess the beginning of the year, called password
check Up.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It was an extension that when you typed.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
A password in it would check your password against a
list of known passwords that are compromised, which sounds kind
of weird, like I don't really want anyone checking my
password against anything, because they have to take my password
and send it across some sort of list that seems
inherently insecure.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But this is Google.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I've met the Chrome team that does the security stuff.
They're very smart. Believe me, I do trust them, but
I think this is odd. But now they're taking that
little service called password Checkup, which was an extension, and
they're building it into Chrome. So now Chrome will warn
you if your user name or password has been compromised
in a data breach, and it will tell you, hey,
(04:19):
change this password. Most of my passwords are pretty good,
you know, like other people. I've been known to reuse
a password or two. I'm sure you do. And I
think that's where this comes in handy, is if you
don't realize that you used your password on a random
site that was hacked and you're still using it on
other sites. Chrome is like, hey, buddy, let's go ahead
(04:40):
and like change this up, you know, and it does,
I guess bring some light to this problem. I just
again find it really odd that they're checking my password
against some sort of list. Now, there are websites that
can do this. You can type in your user name
and get on the list. Whenever your email address shows
up on one of these like kind of you know,
(05:01):
these hacked lists will often be dumped online. They call
them like password dumps, and they'll just be like a
whole file of like millions of usernames and email addresses
and if not or sorry user name, email addresses and
passwords if not more. And nowadays, companies are getting better
about kind of keeping things secure, but those are big companies.
Smaller websites may not keep your stuff as secure, which
(05:23):
is why it's important to use a strong password that's
unique for every single website. I'm not worried about Bank
of America's website being hacked, because guess what, they have
the best protection in the world. I'm worried more about
some random photo website you sign up for and they
have your password that you use on Bank of America
and now if they get hacked, your Bank of America's
at risk.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So Chrome should be telling us.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Like today it says it's gradually rolling out, So if
you're signed Intochrome, you can turn it off if you
don't like it under Sync and Google Services, under Chrome
Settings you can change it.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I think for ninety nine percent of people, they're not
going to change it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If my password is not good.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There are ways, there are other uh you know, if
you use like last Pass or Dashlane, they will scan
your passwords and do the same thing. Oh, I guess
it's a it's a known thing, all right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
First question, Okay, first question comes from Amy. Hi, mister Demiro.
I've been watching Katley Morning News since they began, and
I was a teenager back then.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Lol.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm curious of your thoughts on which iPhone to get
my daughter, who's twelve for Christmas. She currently has a
six plus. But do we know which of the new
phones is the sturdiest, the eleven or the pro? Which
would you choose for your child? She is very responsible
and earns all A's very good.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, good for her, But here's my thing. How old
is she? Twelve? Okay, so twelve is probably the age
I think I got.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
My first phone, but it was a flip phone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, well that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Was a different time, so I was like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I was two years ago. Yeah, I think iPhones were
out two years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So this is something I struggle with. I think a
lot of parents struggle with. And A, it's awesome that
you're getting her the newest phone, but bottom line is
she doesn't need anything more than the iPhone eleven.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, she does not need the.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Pro unless she's a budding YouTube star and she needs
like all those pro features, which, when you really think
about the Pro features, the only differential between the iPhone
eleven and the Pro Max or the Pro rather is
you get a telephoto lens, which means when you zoom
in it's gonna theoretically look better. You still get the
wide angle on the eleven. And the other thing is
(07:33):
you get slightly better battery life and you get a
better screen.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Those are not enough for a twelve year old to
go over into the Pro.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She's like a photographer then maybe, but.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Even that it's like you're you're still getting the same camera.
I mean, except for the telephoto. A lot of times
people think that you're not getting the wide angle with
the eleven. You are, Oh, you're just not getting the zoom.
And it's not as if you can't zoom in your phone.
You can, it's just not gonna be as clear like
high zooms. So I think go for the eleven. And
you're asking.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What the best like what she say? What was the
word she used.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The most sturdiest?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So I mean neither.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, if she's an eleven, she's a twelve year
old kid, She's gonna drop it a thousand times. I
would recommend a case, and I think she needs a
good case, like not just like an.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Apple case, like screen protector.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Screen protector. So we like tech armor, well I do.
I like tech Armor as a screen protector, and for
a case, I would go the Spec Presidio Grip or
some sort of Spec Grip. Tech twenty one is also
really good. Anything that is rated for a drop protection
of like ten feet or more. You can't just get
one of those cases that are you know, the nice
case that looks great that just kind of protects it
(08:44):
from scratches. You want something that protects from drops, yes,
and yeah, your case does not do.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That, like an Amazon case for ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But the case I have that I really like too
is called smartish. I think it's called like Kung Fu grip,
and so it's really grippy on the sides, which is
really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And it also has a lip.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So if you look at your case and you notice
that it comes up over the phone, that means that
it's gonna better protect your phone in the event of
a drop. So yours has a little bit of a lip,
but it's not it's not one that's rated for drop,
I can tell.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So good question.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
All right, Okay, so we talked about this in last
week's podcast. And remember I told you about the trip
to Maui that Qualcom brought everyone off minus me, and
so I was a little bitter.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Obviously you couldn't take the time off.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But I also mentioned something about that trip, and I
said something about everyone was super excited about all the
things that Qualcom was introducing at this event. But I said,
it's interesting because it's kind of tough to sift through
the hype of being in Maui for free and report,
quote unquote reporting about all the stuff and actually kind
(09:54):
of giving some good analysis of what Qualcom is doing.
And they launched their new chip there, which is the
Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five. So leave it to ours
Technica to have an unbiased person to talk about this.
Ron Now I'm gonna kill his last name, Amadeo.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Amadeo.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Wait, oh yeah, I'm Amadeo.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Okay, I think So.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Leave it to good old Ron, who I've I've read
his stuff many times. He gets real and he has
a great article and here's what the headline is, the
Snapdragon eight six y five will make phones worse in
twenty twenty. So leave it to him to actually give
us some real analysis over this issue. Of everyone that
went to this event was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Just raw rah rah rah rah rah raw Qualcomm.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Everyone was talking it up.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Everyone that went, okay free right now. Ron, it did
not seem like he went, but he followed the news.
Or maybe he did go and maybe he paid his
own way.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But here's what his thesis is of his article. This
is the first time so Qualcomm is so hot for
five G that's like the big next kind of next
frontier for smartphones. Right, and we've heard a lot about it.
It's going to be the next It means for wireless companies,
lots of money. For us, it means speedier connections. But
our connections are already pretty good. Yeah, we'd like a
(11:13):
more Instead of speedier connections, we'd probably like a more
solid connection in more places, like everywhere, Like when I'm
getting on the plane.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I you know that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I don't know if you've ever gotten on a plane lately.
You never have a connection, never when you're in.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
When you're in your seat.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, it's crazy. So here's the thesis of his article.
He says, it's unusual because this new chip that basically
goes in every Android phone for the first time in
seven years, does not have a modem on board.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So what does that mean.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The modem is in a separate chip, which it's a
bundled modem five G and four G, and the modem
is what allows the phone to talk to the network,
so you kind of have to have it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
But what he's.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Saying is that because it's a separate chip, a lot
of these phones that don't need five G still have
it bundled in. Now, basically, Qualcom's forcing it on everyone,
And so his idea is that these phones are going
to be bigger than they have to be, They're going
to use way more energy than they have to They're
just going to be sloppier than they need to be
(12:13):
because it's a mess. And I think that's an interesting
take because and I think this has gotten a little
debate online. I think people are getting a little saucy
about it because, yeah, none of the people that went
to the event, like seemed to bring this up except
for him, and now they're kind of debating him on this.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now this is his opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, but he does bring up a phone from the past,
which was the HTC Thunderbolt, and it was the first
four G phone with a separate modem, and he said
it was a disaster. It was hot, it was a slow,
it was a buggy mess, and the battery life was terrible.
So I think he has a great point here, and
I think that he actually brings up a Snapdragon press release.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Snap Dragon is the brand of Qualcomm's chips. He brings
up this.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Press release from twenty twelve when the company switched over
to single chip solutions and said, typically, the more chips
that are involved in building device the more challenging it is.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To conserve battery.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay, so he's kind of putting Qualcomm's own words against them.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Six years later, seven years later, eight.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Years later, the chip that's the chip, I don't know
if that's the exact one that looks very big. Oh
the little time Okay, Oh yeah, see that's what I'm
talking about. All these people on Instagram are shown off.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The ship's tag ad here in Mallie. Yeah, the Qualcum
snap Dragon Summit.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Anyway, So I interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I think it's a great article to read ours Technico
dot Com. We'll see what happens this year. But I
will say this, all the five G phones, from what
I've seen, I've I've tested only the one from Sprint,
but from what I've seen, everyone is agreeing that they're
just not there yet.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The networks are not there yet. So five G lots
of hype, not a lot of delivery just yet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Megan, all right, Okay, So this next question comes from
Pat and he asks is honey dot com safe to use?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was confused because I googled, like honey dot com.
This is like a honeywebsite. Is he talking about the
chrome extension?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
He's talking about the Chrome extension. Okay, yeah, Honey dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Is not I think the website to make Honey like.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The National Honeyboard. Yeah, that's why, so join Honey dot com.
This is a Chrome extension that does all the automatic
coupon codes and all that good stuff. They were just
purchased by PayPal for something like four billion dollars. So
clearly PayPal SyES a lot of potential in this, but
their potential might be more seen in how they can
(14:37):
monetize users of this gadget or this software, and not
necessarily how much it benefits those users.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So I've downloaded Honey in the past.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I will say I don't use it. I have found
that it's just not as good as some of the
other stuff out there. And you've heard me talk about
some other ones. So what am I going to recommend? Megan?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh oh?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Shoot starts with the w oh yeah wiki by by,
So I like wiki by. I find that they have
the best coupon codes that work many many times. And
the other one that I would check out is a
brand new one from slick Deals, and slick Deals I
find is not as automatic as wikiby, but it searches
all of slick Deals, which is this great crowdsource website
(15:18):
for deals.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And it does unearth a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A little bit more it does automatically apply the coupon
codes to check out, but I find sometimes you may
have to go into like their offers and see what
other people are posting about. Okay, but those are the
two that I recommend Honey for all the hype. Just
I feel like, here's what I think Honey did right
and why I think PayPal bought them. They had probably
the most deals with companies, So if I'm a Macy's,
(15:43):
they had a big team that would work with Macy's
and be like, oh, let's get your codes into this app.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But realistically, what I like about.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Wikibi is it's much more crowd generated, and I feel
like that's what gives it better codes. Because when you
use a code, Megan that you find somewhere. Let's say
someone mails you a code to your house, you type
it in wiki by notices that and they say, oh,
we're gonna use that code for the next person, and
the next person gets that code automatically if it doesn't
work for them. Let's say it was a unique code
just for Megan, it takes it out of the running.
(16:11):
Whereas if you've ever gone to like these retail me
not and these offers dot com, you sit there and
you try one hundred codes, none of them work.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, you have to like sign in.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's not good. So that's why I like wiki by
and slick deals.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Check those out, all right, Meghan, If you're selling your
house anytime soon, you can now.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Sell it direct to Zillow. Oh, which is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And this is kind of the next frontier of buying
or buying in or selling a home is probably the
biggest financial thing that anyone does in their lifetime. Yeah,
and it is complicated. It's a lot of steps, there's
a lot of people involved, there's a lot of fees involved,
there's a lot of third party transactions, all kinds of
(16:53):
stuff that you have to do, and usually you have
someone to walk you through it, like you're broker or
your real estate agent, whatever that person is. But the
holy grail of this house kind of thing has always
been like one click online, yeah and just it's gone.
Your house is sold. So Zillo is basically doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So they're getting rid of like real estate agents.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well they're not doing that because Zillo still makes a
majority of their money based on referrals, which is, you know,
you go on Zilo to see how much your house
is worth and you end up getting a real estate
agent or referral. So I don't think they're doing away
with them, but they are. They are definitely streamlining the
process in a way that may or may not take off.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We don't know if this is going to work right.
They've started it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
La is their latest market and San Diego. They have
it in twenty two other markets which they've been doing this.
But LA is the nation's second largest housing market and
it's also the biggest market where they've tried this in Phoenix.
There's a lot of transactions. LA is very unique because
the homes are way more expensive than these other markets,
and it's also trickier, Like it's very unique to like
(17:56):
find a home in LA. It's not just like kind
of a cookie cutter area. There's so many neighborhoods and
there's so many different places that people want to buy.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So here's how it works.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You go on Zilo and you request a fair market
value offer on your home, and you get that within
forty eight hours. You answer some questions about your house,
like when the last time you painted it, well, you know,
what's this? That whatever, And it'll give you an offer
in about forty eight hours. Then you can decide if
you want to take that offer and continue and move forward,
(18:27):
or you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can just say no way.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, if you take the offer, it doesn't immediately sell
your house. You still have to talk to a person
that comes to your house, inspects it, and says, okay, well,
you know you got to do this and that to
fix this up. So here's the thing that I think
people might have an issue with. Normally, when you let's
say you're buying my house, you send your inspector, he
inspects the house, he says it needs fifty thousand dollars
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worth of repairs. You come to me and you say, hey,
you got to knock fifty thousand dollars off the price. Yeah,
and I say I'll knock forty five off and you say,
okay deal. The way the Zilo thing works is they
say how much you have to hate for repairs, like
how much let's say my house is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Worth of repairs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They will say we're just gonna take that off your offer,
and they handle the repairs. They handle everything, and as
far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like there's
a big negotiation there where I can say, like, come on,
because it's it's transactional. They're dealing in big transactions here.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, lots of houses, So could.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
You do this just to see how much they think
your house is worth? Like could I like, I don't know,
like if you might not want to sell, but you
might want to just know how much your house is
worth because it changes all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, And Zillow and Redfinn do that already. You can
go on there and they give you an estimate. They're
not very accurate. So I think that having this person
come out to your house and kind of look at
it would give you But I don't I think there's
probably I mean, yes, some people do that and just
see and be like I never mind. But it's probably
a little bit more work than like for the average
person to just like casually see.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But yes, people will do that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Cool, And anyway, I find it as a tech person
who has seen the inner that kind of change all businesses.
Some of these larger, more human touch businesses are really
tough to change. Buying a book online through Amazon versus
Barnes and Noble, super easy. You know the title of
the book, you type it in. It comes to your house.
Buying a house is a little bit different or selling
a house.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Or leasing an apartment. Like some apartments just don't come
up on like Zilo and you have to actually like
explore a neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And wow, that's a whole nother that's a whole other issue.
That's that's more west side rentals kind of having a
big handle on the market and also brokers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Like when I was in New York City, I couldn't
believe that you can't find a rental online. There's no
such thing.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's a mess.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's a person that you have to call and they
have your rental and it's a whole big mess.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It was the worst.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, you have to pay like a broker fee or something.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, you have to pay like a I think it
was like a month of your rental to this person
that helps you find a place. Now, if all the
information was just online, you know, those people would all
be out of a job.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
But I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, but it's it's kind of some businesses have not
changed very much because of the Internet.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
All right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Okay. This next question comes from Patricia wondering what your
thoughts are regarding purchasing through Rakotin. Oh, what is rat.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
It's really weird and I've seen really weird. It's just
a weird name, right, Yeah, it's strange.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So let's see there's a there's a they have a
little pronunciation thing on the website because it's so is
that how.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You say it? Is that? No idea Rakotin? Because I
had to look this up to see what the deal
with Rakotin is? Is how you say it? Let's see,
so raccoon long as.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The short of it is is that it used to
be called Ebates rack rack tin.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Here, here's the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Pronunciation racketin racketin, racketin racketin racketin so like rack, Like
you know, something's on a rack racketin So I guess
that's a Now, this is a Japanese company and it
used to be called Ebates, and Ebates is one of
these things that like you sign up, all your transactions
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go through them, so you go to like, instead of
going to Macy's dot com, you go to Ebates dot com.
Click through on the Macy's link and then shop and
then you get a percentage of your total back as
an ebate, almost like a rebate and so racketin same thing,
same exact kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's all the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Sometimes you get more back at places than others.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But a lot of people do this.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They you know, they do all their shopping through here,
so they get like one percent.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Pack the thing. Okay, here's how it works.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The store with the kind of larger price differential, So
somewhere like a Macy's. If you see a shirt at
Macy's it says MSRP eighty dollars, that shirt may sell
for fifteen dollars at the end of the day with
all the discounts that they offer. Wow, something like Amazon,
you're not going to find a lot of discounts. Like
whatever it sells for it sells for same thing with Walmart.
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So when you shop at those places, you're gonna get
a tiny percentage because they're margin is a lot smaller.
When you shop at Macy's, you're gonna get a bigger percentage.
So that's kind of how these things work. And is
it safe.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, it's totally safe, and it's it's to me it's
a little bit of a rigamarole. Yeah, that word.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So like sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah, it's kind of like a lot of workamarole.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's kind of a it's like a Southern thing. I
think I learned it down there. It's like it's kind
of like a lot of work for little return. And
to me, it just seems like it's just a little
bit too much.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Work for me.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But if it works for you, it's absolutely fine. But
it's a totally legit company and they're they're it's a
Japanese company that's pretty big, and now they just I
guess they bought Ebates or they had ebaits and now
they're just using that name to make it one thing
across the world.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Okay, I like e Baits, though maybe it's eBay.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They don't want to like maybe I think, yeah, maybe
that or just Ebates. Yeah, Ebates was pretty big and
now it's just gone.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
All right, So, uh, let's talk about Apple.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
If you have an iPhone, they have a new version
of iOS again, iOS thirteen point three. And I'm just
telling you this because there is a new version, are
new features that are good for parents. There are now
support for communication limits in screen time. And what this
means is that during screen time you can allow communication, well,
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you can set where you can restrict communication to only
certain people. So that means if you have downtime set
from five pm to seven pm every night, while your
kid does their homework, they can't call anyone on their
phone except you. They can't message anyone except you, they
can't FaceTime anyone except you. And that's the main feature
that I think is interesting for parents. And this is
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good because the more you have your kids on these devices,
you know, it is a nightmare. My kids are always
asking for more screen time. They're always finding ways of
getting around screen time. They have every trick in the
book to try to convince me to let them on
their iPad more.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Everyone's so addicted.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
They really are, Like you had this tiny little age,
and it's kind of sad. Like my kid just got
into Minecraft and he's five, oh no, and he's obsessed
playing Minecraft. And when he's not playing Minecraft on the iPad,
he's watching Minecraft on TV. Yeah, it's just absolutely insane.
So that's the future I just wanted to tell you
about when it comes to the iPhone. So if you
have a kid, check it out iOS thirteen point three
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under the screen time you can now restrict communication.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
This is a good question. This is from Carlow hi Rich.
With the last update by Apple, all my personal photos
in my Mac have changed from jpeg to IMG h
e C. How can I convert all my photos back
to jpeg. I'm unable to share any of my photos
now because of the change I.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Would be now. I just don't think that all his
photos he or she?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Uh, Carlo Okay, I.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Just don't know if the photos changed. I don't see
Apple changing all your photos.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It's new photos.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking we've.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Changed to AHTIC only when you airdrop.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, it usually it changes it to jpeg when you
airdrop to keep to keep it compatible.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
But here's what's going on Apple.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
In their latest iPhone they changed a default setting so
in an effort to Jpeg is great, it's been around forever.
It's not very good when it comes to image formats
compared to what we have now, which is hi C
and HIC is a smaller file and better quality. Oh
and so that's why Apple wants to use it, and
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so they have switched on the iPhone, and it's been
around on the iPhone for a couple of years, but
it wasn't a default, and now with the new iPhone,
I believe it's the default. It was onmine, And so
you start taking pictures and all of a sudden, when
you go to share it with someone or do something
or download it to your computer or air drop it,
all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's an HGIC.
Now when you share it through like text messaging to
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another person, I.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Believe it does change it to a JPEG.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
So it's like it's very confusing because sometimes it works
just fine. Yeah, but other times I was like trying
to upload a picture like Twitter and it was like, no.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Can't take it, And I was like, wait what.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So I don't think that iPhoto changed all of your
old pictures to HIC. I think you're looking at What
probably happened is when he got the new iphot, he
probably looked at a few pictures at the beginning of
his timeline and was like, wait, what's this new achiic
and maybe didn't look back to the beginning. Now I
could be wrong on that. I don't use iPhoto on
the computer or photos as it's called now, but I
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think that's what they did. Okay, So a couple things here.
Number one, you can change the default on your phone
back to just jpeg if you don't want to do that,
So you can go into settings and you go into
camera and under uh oh did they change it now?
Formats there's camera capture, and there's high efficiency, and there's
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most compatible. So if you leave it in high face,
it's gonna do the the uh h I C and
so if you don't do that, then it's going to
do the other thing.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
But you can air drop HIC to another person.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, if they have an iPhone that supports it. So
if you go to try to do it, you know,
it just depends where you're sending stuff. So if you're
sending it to your computer, uh, that's where you kind
of get into some problems. Like I was trying to
upload a picture to WordPress and HIC and it was like, no, dice, right,
we don't word press. Ye, But it depends how the
website is configured, because it seems like I feel like
on my personal website it does work.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I don't know. Anyway, it's very confusing. So you can
change the format, or.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What I do is I downloaded a little app called
I Amazing HIC Converter. I M A Z I n
g HIC Converter. I'm not sure if it costs money
or not, but it was in the app Store and
I use it. You just drag and drop an HIC
onto it and it will transform it into a JPEG
super easy.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's kind of a one off thing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So if you're just like for me, when I'm uploading
pictures to the webs, I will just drop them in
there and then I'll upload them. And I'm keeping my
stuff in HGIC because I feel like it's a better
format because it's not as universal right now, but it's
more efficient and I like when things change and I
like when things move ahead. JPEG's been around forever. Clearly
someone came up with this to be better, and I'm
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kind of sticking to it. Yeah, sop, Yeah, it's a
little more work, but it's like, yeah, I would assume
it's better. Hopefully it sticks around and it's not like, oh,
there's no more, no more support for this.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, well I don't think that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hopefully not all right, Pixel owners, if you have a
pixel which I'm assuming that's one of you.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Not many people do, but it's still it's still.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Look, the Pixel is not a widely popular phone, but
people that have it really do like it, and they
like it because it is smart. It's smart, and it's
one hundred percent Google. And when you use this thing,
you realize just how smart a phone can be.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Period. That's why people like it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So the latest Pixel, the Pixel four, was getting a
little bit of flack online because people were saying that
Samsung was getting updates out faster than the Pixel, and
generally Pixel gets its updates before every other.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Phone on the Android world.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, I guess this is why Google is doing this
new thing called Pixel feature drop, And I think it's
an effort to get people away from thinking about Android
as only getting security updates. Because people obsess about these
security updates on Pixel. They're like, why am I getting
my security update? Google does them every month. Other manufacturers
have kind of fallen in line with that now, but
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it puts a lot of pressure on them to do this.
So I think that Google is trying to say your
phone is not just about software updates when it comes
to security. We also want to do this thing called
Pixel feature drops, and these feature drops add new features
to your device. And a couple of new features they're
adding that are notable are you can now turn on
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portrait mode at any time in Google Photos, even after
you took the picture.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
And I tried this out. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You take a picture, just a normal picture, and you
go into Google Photos and you say blur and it
blurs the background and it's at any time, which is
kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, so it gives you more creativity. So that's kind
of cool.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It says, whether you took the photo years ago or
forgot to turn on portrait mode, you can easily give
an artistic look with portrait blur and Google Photos, So
that's cool. The next feature is about robo calls. Now,
Google Assistant is going to detect robo calls before your
phone even rings. So on the Pixel they would have
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this thing where when your phone rang, it would say
suspected spam and you would press a button and send
that call to a special little call screener that would
automatically say something like hi, I'm rich as Google Assistant,
please tell me why you're calling, and in real time
you would see what they say transcribe to your phone
screen and then you would have the option to see
if it's like we have a great telemarketing offer for you,
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you would just hang up on them.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So now they're taking that step further.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You don't have to do that step of actually listening
to the call and wasting your time. You can let
the system do it and screen it, and it will
screen it out automatically. If it's not a robo call,
your phone will ring a few moments later with who's
calling and why, So it kind of like basically screens
your calls for you like a assistant would like a
real assistant. So that's one thing. The other thing that
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they're doing that's kind of cool is they're now recording
those calls. So you can turn on a feature on
your pixel to record the call. And if you record
the call, sometimes he's called it pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Uh, it's I'm assuming. How they get.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Around it is they say this call will be recorded.
As long as you say that, yeah, the other person
has the option to hang up.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You have to disclose that. Yeah. It's kind of like
when you call a company.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
To you know, they say this call maybe recorded.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Same thing you're you're not verbally giving your okay to that.
But by saying that and you're not hanging up, that means.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Smart that it's okay, okay. This is a funny question
from Jason. I think it's funny. Maybe it's not very funny,
but he said, I just bought a new Samsung sixty
five inch led Q sixty series smart TV from Best Buy,
and all my friends tell me that hackers can get
into my TV to spy on me. Lol. Anyway to
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prevent that or what is the best way to secure
me and my family from TV hackers? I just think
it's funny. All his friends are like, Oh, you're gonna
get hacked. It's not gonna I mean, we talked about
this last week.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna be It's
not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
But he seemed to have a good sense of humor. Yeah,
did he drop an lol in there?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He dropped he dropped an lol?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, So I think he's tongue in cheek. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I think he's saying, like, rich, really, am I going
to be hacked here? And the short answer is probably not.
But with that said, we talked about this last week.
The FBI out of Oregon had this crazy warning about
smart TV's. I went on that Daily Mail show to
talk about it, you know, to talk about the idea
that look are hackers are always looking for ways in
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and they're looking for easy kind of hacks, and TVs
could be easy, and so they could do fun things
like change your channels whatever, all these crazy things that
they just think is funny. But what's the end game.
The end game would be to break into your network.
And long story, I don't know the reality is is
this going to happen? Probably not.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
But with that said, I'll tell you what you need
to do.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Number one, if you're not using the smart TV aspects,
turn off the Wi Fi that'll keep your TV off
the network. Update your software as much as you can
so you know, if Samsung's putting out updates, always update
it because usually those software updates are adding new features,
but primarily they're there for adding you know, safety. Yeah,
like security, like patching security holes. And the other thing
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is whatever password you use for your router and your
internet and or your TV, make it a strong one.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
That's also unique. That's it. I think you'll be fine
with this TV. Yeah, I would be more concerned.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
With a smart TV about all the data they're collecting
about you as you watch. That is much more pressing
to me than having some random hacker target Joe Schmoe's
house because they want to get access to his TV.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I mean for what reason?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So I would be more concerned about all the apps
that you're using and all the data that you're feeding
to those apps. Yeah, and that's really what's happening. Craig Ray,
all right, So, Megan, we went on this story for
a gadget called the Life Door. Yes, and this is
a gadget. So I did not know that fire safety
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professionals or fire experts recommend sleeping with your bedroom door closed.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I never heard that same. Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
No? Right, okay, no, I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
So this firefighter told us that, and I thought that
was interesting, and he explained it because it is.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
It basically helps the fire stay out of your room,
which makes sense. If you're in a hotel room, they
say put like towels under the door in case of
a fire, which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You don't want smoke coming in, so they don't say
open the.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Door, open the door and let the fire in.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It just makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
There's a lot of oxygen in your room. A closed
door or would keep at least some sort of barrier
between you and a fire. Whether how long that barrier lasts,
we don't know. But what he's saying is by having
it closed, just even if that barrier keeps things better
for a minute or two or ten or fifteen, of
course it's better, yeah, which just makes sense.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah, keeps more fumes out.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
So a lot of kids don't want to sleep in
their bedroom door closed, including mine. I don't sleep with
my bedroom door close. I always we grew up in
a house where we always had them all open, So
I don't know, it's just weird. Like there were some
houses like when I went, you know, sleepovers, the kids
would close their door.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
And you're like, oh, that's weird. It just depends how
you grow up.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, So this Device to Life door is kind of
a ratchet. It has like a ratchet mechanism. You install
it on the back of the door and you kind
of open the door once to kind of activate it,
and then once you do, it has this little microphone
inside and it listens for the sound of a smoke
alarm and when it hears that very standard sound of
a smoke alarm. It goes into action and it snaps
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the ratchet and it closes the door.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And that's it. It's all to us, very simple.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
You can reopen the door, doesn't lock, the door closed,
doesn't do anything weird like that. It also has a
light on it so you can see kind of where
the door is if they're smoking the room. It also
makes its own alarm sound. Yeah, so a lot of
kids will sleep through smoke alarms, so this is kind
of a secondary alarm in their room right to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Wake them up, to wake them up hopefully.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I did a story back when I was in Louisiana
where we tested the idea of kids sleeping through smoke alarms,
and I could not believe these kids. Middle of the night,
we went, you know, I had to stay up late,
you know, we went to this house. We set up
cameras and we put the smoke alarm on and the
kids slept right through it.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Oh. I couldn't believe it. Could not believe it.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
That's interesting that you've done a story on that.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yeah, I actually need to find my story because it
was it is. You know you do that, you I've
done hundreds, if not thousands of stories in my career
so far. This one I could remember like yesterday because
it was something that just etched my head like wow, like.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Freaked you out a little bit. Yeah, so funny. I'm
a really hard sleeper, but I don't sleep through smoke alarms.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You you've woken up to a smoke alone?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Oh yeah? So, I mean so our batteries like always die.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
But those are like chirps. Though, isn't that.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
A chirp you that still wakes me up? That's great?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Then that's good.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, it's good. That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
In the future, I well, I don't know if people
don't really wear their Apple watches to sleep, but in
the future they'll probably do a thing where your Apple
watch will also vibrate.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
To wake you up or you fit it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, because all this stuff is getting I think that
these companies tread a little bit lightly in this area
because think about it. Let's say your watch doesn't go off.
Next thing, you know, Apple's getting sued because your connection.
So I do think that this is probably the reason
why fire systems have not evolved very much, because I
bet there's a lot of litigation, you think, so, I
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think so even with this device, because you might argue
that like it puts you at risk, or you couldn't
get out of you room where your kids couldn't open
the door once.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I don't know, Yeah, I know you're right, but I'm.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Just thinking that it's anyway, So it's one hundred and
thirty dollars, which is very expensive when you think about
something that you add to your house, not when you
think about in terms of saving a life, but for
the average person that's just putting stuff around their house,
one hundred and thirty dollars a lot to spend, especially.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
If you have three or four doors that you're putting
this on.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
So I think that's probably its biggest impediment to success
right now. But if it is a device that a
big company thinks is necessary, like one of these big
fire alarm companies or smoke alarm companies, they may buy
this company and make these things at a cheaper price.
And I always say, like in a corporate atmosphere in buildings,
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there's always if you look at a door in a
corporate system, not this one, but a lot of them,
well they call them fire doors. If you look in
the upper corner of the door, you'll notice it's connected
by magnet to the back of the wall, and what
happens is in a fire, that magnet demagnetizes closing that
door and it becomes a fire barrier. And so these
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big corporations are doing these big companies are doing it.
They're obviously protecting their assets in the building, people and
also the building itself. But it goes to show that
this guy's onto something.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Totally. Okay, we got one more question, Megan, make it quick.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
This is from Josie. How do I delete an individual
from a group text that was sent?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh? You can't, you can you can't.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I thought we've had this.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We've had this conversation. I think you can leave the conversation.
You can't remove someone else.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Oh but okay, I think.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You can leave. Yeah, I think that's it. Go ahead,
try it.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Let me just find it.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I looked on my phone to see like a group text,
so I have a lot of mixed group text, which
like Android and iOS. So number one, Josie, if you're
talking iPhone, if there's an Android person on that text
at all, you can't do it.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh you can do it.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Oh you can't. See I tried it online. It did
not work. Oh, interesting, I guess maybe the.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Person was then.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I know, I'm assuming she's iPhone iPhone. Okay, So I
tried it with you and Luis. We have a group
conversation and it would not let me delete one of you.
So maybe you have to be the person that created
the group.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Oh, that's probably what it is. That's probably so.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I don't because it just seems like I'm going here,
this has six people in it, and yeah, I can't swipe.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
See I can't, Okay, So it must be if you
created it.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Maybe if you create it, I think there are some
caveats to this.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
But I didn't create this.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
See, that's what I'm saying. It's all and does it
let you delete it, delete the person?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah, but I'm not gonna actually do it.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well, but you can swipe left to do it, okay,
And you didn't create that group. See, I'm it's very confusing.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
It is confused anyway.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The way you do it, if you can do it,
here's how you do it.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
If you can go into your message the group message,
tap up at the top where it has all the
pictures of the people, tap info and then where the
person is just swipe right to left on them and
if it brings up delete, you can delete it. If not,
then there's either an Android person or something else going
on that you can't do it. If you're on Android,
you can't really do that, And on Android you can
do a lot more things like hide the entire alerts
(41:57):
from that message forever. On iOS, if you can can't
leave the group or you can't delete someone, you can
just swipe left on the message and say hi to
alerts and that won't can't be any more alerts.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Souh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
The group text thing is interesting because I have my family.
I have a couple of them that I'm in that like,
especially my family, if they get going, it's like NonStop,
and it could be really tough because like you're doing
something like I'm eating dinner or whatever, and like it's
just boom boo boom. Or I've got a group of
friends that, like, you know, all of a sudden, they'll
just start talking and you're not really involved in the
common kine.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
It stresses me out a little bit. I'm like, I
don't like this right now.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
And I never mute the notifications because like it's just
too much work. So I end up just like having
my watch vibran.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I do do. I like that.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
I mute the convo because I'm like, I can't do
this right now, and then they'll be like are you
there and I'm like, no, well not really.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yep, in general or in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
All right, two things before we go, I just want
to mention I tried out this smart bulb dimmer which
I thought was really cool.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
It's called Aurora. It's from Lutron.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
If you have Hugh lights in your house, this is
a dimmer switch you should check out. It is so
easy to install. It literally just goes onto your light switch,
you turn the light switch on, You screw this thing down.
It stays in place somehow, I don't know how, and
next thing you know, you now have a roll a
rocker dimmer where you can like or a circular dimmer
where you can turn the lights on and off or
(43:18):
tap to turn them on off. And it only works
with Hugh lights. But if you have Hugh lights in
your house, check it out. It's forty bucks. You can
add a dimmer switch to any room. It's called the
Lutron Aurora.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Lutron tried to send this to me for probably months,
and I kept saying no, no, no, no, no, I
don't want to try anything like this. And finally I've
read it like three times, it was like, actually, that
sounds kind of cool. Try it, and I'm in love
with it now, so I love it. That's number one.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
If you want to transform your iPhone into an iPod Classic,
check out an app called Rewound.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
It's just fun. It's free. It's just just check it out.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's called rewound, and it transforms your iPhone into an
iPod Classic with that click wheel that you scroll through.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
It's just so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
You just if you had, if you had an iPod Classic,
you gotta try it out. I should have hashtaged it
I posted to my Instagram. I did not hashtag TBT today,
Oh missed opportunity. Thursday hashtag missed opportunity.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It's fine, all right, Thanks so much for listening. If
you have not, thanks to you, by the way, for
everyone who has purchased a copy of my book one
and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, I'm getting the reviews
are starting to trickle in which I love it. If
you've bought a copy and you love it. Please leave
a review on Amazon that helps other people find it
and discover it and also know that it's great and
(44:33):
the reviews have been awesome.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Thank you so much. It's just made my day.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
It's a number one iPhone guide on Amazon, especially during
the holidays. That is pretty amazing. I am doing a
lot on Instagram these days, so please if you're not
following me there, follow me there.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I am at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
My goal, new goal, Megan, is to post one cool
video a day. I don't know if I'm gonna be
able to do that.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Because that's hour. Yeah, every hour.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
I didn't say every day. I said every hour of
an hour. It's tough to do, but I have been
doing it and I just love it. So if you
see those videos, like them, comments, share with your friends,
all that good stuff. I'm always trying different things on
there to see what people like. There's no look, I'm
not an expert in any of this stuff, believe me,
long way, but I've come a.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Long way, thanks in no small part to you.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
No, I mean, we do like all of it.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
So, producer Megan, where can people find you?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
I am on Twitter at producer Megan.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
So easy see that.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
So easy.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
That's gonna do it for today's show. Can you believe
the show is over? I'm gonna go back to wrapping
Christmas presents now, Okay.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
That's about it.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Actually, I'll probably do that right before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
The website is rich on tech dot tv. If you
like this podcast, if you learned anything at all, give
it a review in the iTunes. They don't even call
it that anymore now, it's just called the podcast app podcast.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Thanks so much for listening. We'll talk to you real soon.
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