Thoughts on Apple's WWDC 22 (I went)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Apple, Apple Apple Everything you need to know from the
company's Worldwide Developers Conference, and yes I was there. I'll
talk about the new features coming soon to iOS sixteen,
watch os, new MacBooks, and more, plus your tech questions answered.
What's going on. I'm rich to Biro and this is

(00:31):
Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the
tech stuff I think you should know about. It's also
the place where I answer the questions you sent me.
I'm the tech reporter at KATE How do I mess up?
Where I'm from the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
in Los Angeles. I've only been here a decade. Can't

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seem to say it properly? And uh wow, wow wow.
This week was a wild one. I was up in
Coopertino for WWDC. I was up there for a couple
of days. And it's so interesting because WWDC was virtual
this year, but then somehow it turned into an in

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person event and it was kind of sneaky, kind of
a little secret on Apple's part, but they did a
really good job of inviting people personally to this event
and getting them up there. And the funny thing is
I was talking to some of my journals. Well, let
me explain. So you know Apple, you know, they do

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their thing, and they say, hey, you know, we'd love
to have you up there. Can you go? We can't
really tell you anything. And so I'm like, all right,
but it's Apple. You never know, you never know what
they're gonna do, you never know what's gonna be like,
so you go. And so they're one of a handful
of tech companies that can do that. And so I went.
And you get up there, and I still don't know
what's going on. They just said, okay, meet it this

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time and place whatever, and so you meet and as
a meeting there, I'm like, wait a second. This is
like there's a lot of a lot more people. And
I'm starting to see tweets from other journalists saying that
they're at WWDC. I'm like, all right, so what's happening.
So anyway, I get there and it is a much
larger scale experience than I thought. I mean, they had

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the entire Apple Park set up outside with this giant screen.
It was the biggest it was. It looked like a
drive in movie theater screen and with speakers, and it
kind of reminds me of Io, like what Apple, sorry,
what Google does? Because they do theirs at kind of
an amphitheater, so it's outside, but Apple had set up

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kind of an indoor outdoor area at Apple Park, and
I'd never been inside the actual Apple Park headquarters. Typically
when they take us up to or when we go
to WWDC, they take us right to the Steve Jobs Theater,
which is a circular building kind of off to the side,
and then that's it. But this time we went into campus,

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pretty deep into campus and into that circular building that
you see sort of that spaceship looking building, and the
event was held kind of indoor outdoor. It's tough to explain,
but they have these giant like sliding glass doors on
one part of the campus that just opens up all
three floors to the outside, and so you sat in there,

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and then they had some people sitting more out on
the grass, and then they had this big screen setup.
And so the part you probably didn't see online was
that Tim Cook and one of the other executives it
comes out and they kind of give like an introduction,
like a welcome, and then they start the actual event.

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And once the event started, it was all on tape.
And then at the end, I think they came back
on I can't really remember, just to say thanks and whatever,
and then we got scurried away to kind of a
hands on area where we got to go hands on
with the MacBook Air and some of the other features
that they announced at the actual event. So that was
kind of cool. And that was back at the Steve
Jobs Theater. They also had food. I mean the food

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that Apple serves at these things is just so unbelievable,
Like it's it's super like cutting edge. Like the food
that they have there is always very healthy, very thoughtful,
very like if they serve any sort of snacks, like
it's always a brand that I've never heard of but
will be big in like six months to a year.

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And I had, you know, like for lunch, they had
these little like just a little finger sandwiches and stuff.
I mean, it's unbelievable, and you know, it's just one
of these things where it's a great experience to go
because not only do you get to you know, I
went to this podcast taping with a bunch of executives,
you know, I got to go to this meeting with
a bunch of the developers and you got to see

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this new developers building they have. I mean, it's really
quite phenomenal. And so it's funny. I was reading this
blog post this morning about you know, these events that
these bloggers and things go to, and how you know
it could be construed is taking gifts from them, like
if it's you know, if they go to like this
big party and this and that. But the underlying message

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of the of the blog post was that, look, you know,
anything I do is trying to get more information and
better information for my readers. And that's kind of the
same thing with this, like Okay, oh Rich, you got
to eat lunch at Apple's campus, Like, oh my gosh.
But the reality is the access to people that you get,
the access to information that you get, the basis of

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information that you get from doing these types of events
is so much better than you could ever get covering
it at home and never going to any of this stuff.
So yeah, it costs like real money to go up
to Koopertino for a couple of days, and it's a
lot of work and it's a lot of effort, and
it's a lot of energy, and it's a lot of flying,
but it's always worth it for the basis that you

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get and the perspective that you get on these products,
and not only the products, but the company. So the
understanding of Apple, like when I saw their headquarters, like
now I have a real understanding of like how people
work there and what they do and just how things
are run. And it's funny, the Apple campus is just
as high tech and perfect as the iPhone, Like the

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way they design it, the attention to detail is just
exactly the same. And so it just gives you that understanding.
And I work with a lot of tech companies, like
I cover so many of them, and I talk to
all the different PR people and I see how they
do stuff, and I see how they send me their
product and how it's packaged and how it's done, and
you know, there are little patterns that you pick up

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and it really goes to show like a bigger system
of what this company's all about. So anyway, it's just
it's just phenomenal and I'm glad to be a part
of it. And it's it's just and by the way
the people that they have, like only Apple can throw
a party where they tell people nothing, and the quality
and caliber of people that show up, Like when I

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tell you every single high end YouTuber, you know, from
MKBHD on down is there and they are all there,
and it's just you know, the journalists that are there.
The quality of you know, the journalists that they can
get at their events is just phenomenal. So anyway, I'm
not trying to be like overly a few. Is it effusive?

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Is that the word? I don't know if that's the
word effusive? Yeah, effusive of Apple. But it really is
a phenomenal experience. And you know, again, there's a lot
to unpack from this event. Let's start with iOS sixteen.
So iOS sixteen is going to be a pretty big

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I don't think it looks very different from the well
I guess it does because the lock screen is totally different.
There's a lot of let's just go through some of
the features. So let's start with iOS sixteen. So iOS
sixteen coming out in the fall. They already have a
developer's beta. Public beta's coming out I believe in July.
And so the main thing is the lock screen is
totally different. The lock screen, the best way I can
describe it is it is now an Apple Watch lock screen,

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so it has widgets, it's customizable. It just everything is
totally different because now you have these little widgets that
are basically Apple Watch complications. In fact, developers it's the
same thing. So if they developed an Apple Watch complication,
it's pretty much easy to bring it to the lock
screen on the iPhone. So you can get all your
information that you want, and you can customize this with calendar, events, weather,

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battery levels, alarms, time zones, activity, ring progress, whatever you want.
You can also change the look of the time and
the date, so they have different fonts, they have different colors.
The home screen or the lock screen itself can have
different live wallpapers. You can see kind of like the weather.
You can see the Earth, the solar system. You can

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have emojis on them. I mean, there's so many different
things you can do. You can also swipe between lock screens,
again very much inspired by the Apple It's you know,
you can swipe through a couple like I have a
couple of different Apple Watch screens. One is for going
out at night, one is for work, one is for
you know, activity, and so you can swipe through those.
Now you can do the same thing on your iPhone.

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The other cool thing is the live Activities features. So
these are notifications that help you keep up with something
that's happening live. So if you're getting like an uber
that's arriving to you, you know, right now, Uber sends
you like fifteen different notifications saying, okay, we found your Uber. Okay,
your Uber driver is on its way, your Uber driver

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is arriving. Don't forget to wear a mask in the uber.
You know, all these different things, whereas now it's consolidated
into one notification that has live updates. And this is
something yes, that has been available on Android for a while,
especially with sports scores, I think, but now you can
see this on iPhone and it's It also works with
things like a food delivery order. So if door Dash

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we've picked up your order, your order is picked up
by this person, they're preparing your order, arriving with your order,
where should they leave the order. That's all just on
your lock screen and you don't have to unlock your
phone to see this stuff happening live. So that's really cool.
The other thing they're improving is Focus, so now you
can have lock screens linked to a focus. I haven't

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really gotten into Focus. I should probably set it up
because I like the idea of having one sort of
look for my phone for work, one for play, one
for focusing. But the reality is it's just kind of
all intertwined and it's really tough to set those things up.
Apple says they're going to make it easier to set
up focus and your lock screen will correspond to focus

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and the widgets that it shows. You can also have
things filtered out in calendar, mail messages and safari. So
let's say you only want text from work people during
your work focus, they won't come through when you're on
your personal focus. Now, this is tough again because our
lives are so intertwined with work. But if you can
set it up and it works great also though, unless

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they add third parties support for some of these apps,
like let's say I use Gmail, I'm not sure that
that would really work properly. Maybe it will, who knows,
We'll say. They've also got this iCloud Shared photo library,
so similar to what you can do on Google Photos
for many years now, you can now set up an
iCloud photo library that is shared with up to six users,

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so you can all collaborate. You can share photos automatically,
it can suggest photos to put into there, but basically
you can have one shared library that you can all
kind of pull from and share pictures in. They're going
pretty deep on this because even in the camera app,
there will be a little notification at the top when
you take a picture that says send this to your
shared library, and you can do that on a one

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off basis, and it's just be kind of a persistent
message up there, or just have all your pictures go
into there for a certain amount of time. Mail is
getting some new features. You can schedule a message, you
can cancel a message again, all things that have been
in Gmail for a while. So a lot of these features.
If you're just Apple, if you're just one hundred percent

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committed to that Apple ecosystem, these are great things. It's
taken a while for Apple to get them, but they
are arriving. But if you're using other apps, some of
this stuff is like, Okay, I've had this for a while.
Live text is kind of cool. They're just continuing that.
I think that that is just an amazing feature that
Apple has, the live text. I use all the time

(12:22):
to copy things from you know, like if I see
something on Instagram that I like, like a quote or
a recipe, I'll just take a screenshot and just grab
the text off of there with live text again, something
that's been available on Google Lends for a long time now,
but I think Apple does do this feature better. Now
they've got this new feature where you can literally, when
you're looking at a picture, just press and hold kind

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of like lightly tap on like a person or a thing,
and just drag it out of the picture and it
will automatically find the outline, drag that item out of
the picture, and you can drag that into a text
or somewhere else. I mean, pretty pretty wild. So it
literally just lifts the subject of an image from the background.
That's pretty amazing. The other thing, and you know that

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I'm not a big credit card slash finance person, but
Apple pay Later is this new feature where they will
split any purchase into four equal payments over six weeks
with zero interest and no fees of any kind. Now,
just because there's no interest, just because there's no fees,
doesn't mean that it's okay to do this with everything. Obviously,

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this gets into your financial what you like to do
with your finances versus what I like to do. And
it's one tool that's out there. Use it at your discretion,
but it is going to make splitting purchases into four
payments very very easy for a lot of people. And
it's kind of a nice thing that Apple is doing.

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What are the implications of that, I don't know. I mean,
I think that there's got to be some sort of
I mean, if there's no fees, I mean, is there
a late fee if you pay it late? Like, I'm
not really sure. Zero interest and no fees of any kind.
So I don't know. We'll have to see how that works.
Car Play they are they showed off a next generation

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car Play that will basically take over the entire dashboard screen.
So I've every car that I look at nowadays has
these giant dashboard screens, not just the one in the center,
but it also has kind of like the instrument cluster
is all digital, Like basically the entire screen is digital
inside these new cars, and so CarPlay can now take

(14:31):
advantage of all of the screens and show you, you know,
your instrument cluster, you can you can add widgets that
you want, your weather. I mean, it's it's an Apple
car inside, except it's being made by someone else. And
Apple says they're going to show kind of or I guess,
announce some of the first cars that will take advantage

(14:53):
of this late next year, so we still got a
while before we see this. But again, we're just getting
a little bit deeper into this idea of Apple kind
of taking over the car screen. I'll be quite honest,
I've got a Tesla, and the idea of just having
just seeding that control to Apple and CarPlay on my big,
giant Tesla screen would be phenomenal. I don't need Tesla's

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screen on there at all. I don't. There's nothing that
Tesla does that's better than Apple or Google when it
comes to their infotainment system. It's just it's fine. It's
just not very good in my opinion. So what I
love if Tesla said, you know what, here's a new option.
Clearly this can be done with software. We're just gonna
let you plug in your iPhone in the Tesla or

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use Apple CarPlay wirelessly, and we'll just let you control
your whole car from car Play. And when I say
control your whole car, yeah, this has the integrations for
controlling the radio, for controlling the climate, for controlling all
of the vehicle data on your car. That's the idea
here is that Apple can also control that, and they
made a lot of illusions. I use a lot of

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words here that I don't even know what they mean,
but they they said that the car makers will be
able to brand this in their own way. So they
are giving car makers, just like Apple would typically do it,
the ability to make this their own, but within the
parameters of what Apple will allow. So that's another improvement. Safari.
They're trying to get rid of passwords with this thing

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called past keys, And if anyone has the ability to
do this, yes, it's Apple because they've got the iPhone.
And if you're logging in on a website on your
computer and it says, hey, can you scan your face
and will log you in? Sure, Apple will easily be
able to do that. Apple maps getting multi stop routing,
so that's easy dictation, very similar to what the Android

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offers with the newest pixel where you can have a
text sorry, you can be dictating text on the microphone,
but then go back, highlight a word and just type
in the right word or change something with the keyboard
because they're both on screen at the same time right now.
The way the iPhone works when you're in dictation mode,
the keyboard disappears now the keyboard will stay there and

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you'll still be able to dictate, so you can use
both at the same time. Again, if you're on Android,
this is something that you're used to, but if you're
on iPhone, you've never had that before, so now this
is something that's pretty nice. Fitness app is let's see,
fitness app oh is gonna now be on the iPhone,
so you can track your goals even if you don't
have an Apple Watch. So you can set up a

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daily move goal. And it's going to use some of
the sensors on the iPhone to estimate your calories and
help you close your rings. Are going to track steps, distance,
flight climbed, flights climbed. The health app is going to
add a medication section, which I thought this is actually
really really neat. It's going to allow you to monitor
the medications like build. You can input all of the vitamins,

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supplements and medications prescription meds that you take and you'll
see them all there. It can give your reminders on
when to take them. Obviously, this would be helpful for
you know, either elderly people or you don't have to
be elderly. I mean, if you're going through some sort
of illness or sickness or treatment for something. You know,
sometimes you're on a medication routine, and this could really

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help you organize your pills, get reminders on when to
take them, and track the fact that you've taken them.
It will also show you any sort of critical interactions
on those medications. The other thing I didn't mention here
is messages. Messages will enable you to edit or recall
a recently sent message. So basically, after you send a message,

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you'll have fifteen minutes to edit a word in there
or delete the whole message from the other phone. Or
you can also recover recently deleted message messages, so similar
to when you delete a picture on the iPhone. Now
the iPhone will keep your recently deleted I messages in
a folder that saves for I think thirty to forty days.

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So that's really nice. I think that got the biggest
reaction from people on the ground at WWDC because Messages
is really the kind of the biggest messaging app. I
would say in the US and outside the US it
falls off a cliff, but here in the US it
is king and it is like the way that people
message here in the US, I don't agree with that.

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I know that Apple loves loves loves Messages. That gives
them the lock and key for everything else in the
Apple ecosystem. It's kind of like the basis of everything
iPhone and really getting people locked into that ecosystem. I personally,
if I had my way, would not use messages because
I hate the fact that it is so so proprietary

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to the iPhone that it excludes other people that are
on Android. It excludes people around the world that may
not want to use an iPhone. And to me, it
is just your playing favorites when you're on I Message,
and it's really annoying the fact that if you're not
on I Message, all the I Message features don't work,
and also your messages are It's just not a good thing.

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I just don't like it. And it's I know it's Apple.
I know it's like their premiere thing, and it's it
works great, but I just wish it was a much
more what's the word common messaging protocol between phones? Like,
we are in an age of many many devices, and
I don't care if you're on an iPad, or you're

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on an Android tablet, or you're on some sort of
smart watch or you're on some sort of smartphone. Every
single or on a smart TV, every single app, or
every single device these days should be able to message
another device using a common protocol. And maybe that's our CS,
maybe it's something that's new, but it's not text messaging.

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It is not I Message. It shouldn't be WhatsApp or
any of these other proprietary messaging services. There should be
a common messaging protocol that every device in the world
should be able to do the same things on. I
think it's tough because of safety and security and encryption,
but I think that could be built and I think

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it should happen. Oh that was a lot for iOS sixteen.
Let's get to the first question of the show. Debra says, Hey, Rich,
I love all the information from Cooper Tino. I need
your expertise. I have a twenty seven inch iMac that
I need to back up. I'm embarrassed to say I've
lived a risky life not doing updates on here for

(21:28):
a couple of years. Before I dare do some updates,
I need to make sure everything is backed up. I've
been using it for business remote working. My time machine
keeps saying it can't back up because of system failure.
So I'm worried this thing is going to crash. I'm
wondering if there's something you could recommend. I did look
at a Seagate drive at Costco, wondered if I should
go with something like that. Let me know. Thank you, Debrah, Debra,

(21:51):
you're on the right path. You mentioned two things. You
mentioned Seagate, you mentioned time machine. What you need to
go What you need to do is go back to
Costco buy that Seagate drive. The first time you plug
that Seagate drive into the iMac, it's going to say
would you like to use this as a time machine backup?
And you should say yes. And as soon as you

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do that, you'll see a little icon in your menu
bar of a time machine going to work. And it
may take a day or I don't know how long,
depending on how much you've gotten this computer. It may
take a while for that first time machine backup to complete.
That will be a full backup of your Mac system.
Now you can do the updates. Now what you want

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to do is do all the updates and then just
keep that drive plugged in. Bottom line, keep it plugged
in for a week or two, and it will just
update your computer. It will back up your computer. Sorry,
it will back up your computer to that drive at
regular intervals, so it'll do I haven't used time machine
in a while, so I can't remember what the intervals are.
But it's like, you know, a minute by minute, then

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it's hour by hour, then it's day day, then it's
month by month, then it's maybe year by year. But
whatever it is, it will keep a nice backup of
your system that if something ever fails, you can go
back in time to that time machine, backup, see what
they did there, and recover whatever you need. Maybe it's
a file, maybe it's a you know, whatever it is.

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Maybe it's your whole system. But that's the way to
do it. All you need is one of those Seagate drives.
In the unlikely event that when you plug this drive
in your computer does not recognize it, you will have
to format this drive to be used on your computer.
So what you want to do is find something called
disc utility. You can press command space bar on your computer,

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search for disc in spotlight. You should see the disc
show up. You want to erase that disc and so
you want to erase it and format it as a
I think it's like what is it? Osh, gosh, what
is it? Mac os? I don't have a disc here,

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see what it's what the format is, but I think
it's OS extended or something like that. But just do
that and you'll be fine, and there you go. Okay,
let's talk about Watch OS nine. So I would say,
after the iPhone, my second favorite gadget is the Apple Watch.
And sometimes I've said the Apple Watch my favorite, but

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I can't edit video on the Apple Watch, so it
can't be my favorite. Apple Watch is Apple knows that
Apple Watch is the second stickiest gadget that they make
after the iPhone. This is the thing that really keeps
people in the Apple ecosystem because once you have an
Apple Watch on your wrist, it is really really tough
to go to any other smart watch. It's really tough

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to not have it. For me anytime that I switch
back to an Android and literally I'm talking when I
switch switch, like put a SIM card in it, and
it is just I can't tell you how different the
experience is because I'm so used to having my phone
on silent that when my phone is on silent, I

(25:02):
don't miss a thing because everything just redirects to my
wrist and I'm in a studio most of the time,
or in some sort of TV station setting, or in
a shoot where I'm recording audio, and so my phone
never ranks, is never ever not on silent mode. So
when that happens on Android, I miss everything because you

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can't hear anything, and unless your phone is in your
pocket vibrating, you're not gonna hear any of your messages
come through. And so that's why the Apple Watch is
so amazing that I can never miss a beat because
even though everything is silent, I'm still feeling the vibration
on my wrist and looking for the message. With all
that said, Watch os nine got a couple new watch faces.

(25:44):
I don't really get that excited about watch faces, but
you've got that portrait mode has more depth effect on cats, dogs,
and landscapes. You can have the Apple Watch face switch
with your focus mode. We talked about that earlier. The
Workout app as better metrics for measuring your performance. You
can now make custom workouts, which is kind of like.

(26:07):
There's an app I use called Seconds, which I used
to use to time out this podcast. It kind of
does interval timing for workouts. You know. Three minutes on,
three minutes off, three minutes on, three minutes off. That
is now sort of built into the workouts app. It
pretty much is. And then there's new alerts including pace, power,
heart rate, and cadence. So if you want to make

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sure you're hitting a certain heart rate, you can add
that alert to your workouts and you can hear when
you reach you know your target heart rate. For triathletes,
there's now a multi sport mode, so it can switch
between swimming, biking, and running workouts. And let's see, there
are new running form metrics including stride length, ground contact time,
vertical oscillation. I am a big runner and I don't

(26:51):
care about any of that stuff. I don't even know
what that means. But hey, if you are an even
more intense runner than I am, if you're working towards
some sort of goal that I don't really understand, then
those are gonna be great for you. And swimming, you've
got kickboard detection and it can also classify the stroke type.
I mean, this stuff. It's just truly remarkable what Apple

(27:13):
is doing with with on device learning, so it can
identify using algorithms what you're doing in your workouts. It
knows it all. This is kind of cool. If you're
on Fitness Plus and you're a subscriber to that, you know,
you don't let me slow down here. You no longer
need an Apple TV. It can now airplay your workouts

(27:35):
to a compatible third party TV and device. So if
you're at say a hotel that works with airplay, which
I have yet to see, you would be able to
stream your workout to that TV in your room, which
is really cool. Now can you do that right from
your watch? That would be amazing that that would be Wait,

(27:56):
is that truly what you can? Yeah? I guess so
I wonder if you need your iPhone. I don't know.
That's that's interesting. I gotta figure that out. Okay, what else? Uh? Sleep? Oh,
sleep tracking is coming to Watch OS nine, So this

(28:17):
means I'm gonna have to start wearing the Apple Watch
to bed because I do want to get these rich
sleep metrics. Uh. It will tell you let's see here
ram sleep, core sleep, and deep sleep, and it's using
the accelerometer and the heart rate monitor and of course, uh,
some sort of algorithm that Apple has built. So that's
really cool. Aphib history detection, So a FIB is if

(28:39):
your heart is working, it has like some sort of
abnormal you know, I'm not a doctor, so I don't
really understand. But if you're if your heart, I guess
when you have a FIB. Your heart works normally a
lot of the time, but sometimes it's the heart rate
is atypical and so that's a FIB. And so a

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lot of times this can lead to stroke if it's
left untreated. And most of the time, as I understand it,
to detect a FIB, yeah, you can do a one
off test or now with the Apple Watch, it will
be able to look at your heart from over time,
like I'm talking all the time, and it can tell
you when you went into a FIB, so whether it

(29:22):
was for a couple of moments at you know, seven
am on a Saturday it always seems to happen, or
on a Sunday night, whatever it is, it will tell
you like here's the times when you typically experience this.
And with a doctor they can go through and tell
you like, look, okay, maybe you need to sleep better
on a Friday night, or you need to drink less,
or you need to work out more, whatever it is.
I don't know. I don't know what the factors are

(29:43):
but this is the first time apparently that you can
see a much longer APHIB history then typically doctors get
access to because most of the time they got to
hook you up with all these sensors to see what's
going on with your So you can download a detailed
PDF with a history of your a FIB and also

(30:05):
your lifestyle factors, and you can talk to your doctor
about how to make this all better. Medications app I
think we already talked about, so that's gonna be on
Apple Watch as well. And I think that's it for
the Apple Watch. I mean there's a lot, obviously a
lot more that Apple announced, but those are like the
big main things, and I just think the Apple Watch continues.
I've said this a thousand times on the podcast. The

(30:26):
Apple Watch just continues to get better and better and better.
I can't wait until they set it free. I know
why Apple is not setting it free. There should be
no reason why you shouldn't be able to just activate
this thing as its independent line. Right now, you still
need a family member to do it on an iPhone.
But it just Apple needs to set this thing free
because it is so phenomenally helpful, especially with the Cellular

(30:49):
Connection twenty four to seven, that this is one of
Apple's best products and it just continues to get better.
All right, Rosa, it says, maybe you can help. I
recently got an iPhone eleven. I'm having problems keeping it
connected via Bluetooth to my JVC aftermarket car stereo. It
just continually breaks up when I try connecting Spotify or iHeartRadio.

(31:12):
I was told to download the firmware from the JVC
website to a flash drive. How do I decompress the
files that are downloaded from my Mac desktop to my
flash drive? I only see the option to compress them.
Thank you, Rosa. Rosa, sometimes things are so obvious we
miss them. But to decompress, I'm guessing you mean unzipped
the files that you downloaded. Typically when you download a

(31:33):
firmware update, it comes as a ZIP file, and so
to decompress or unzip those, you would just double click
that file and it should do that now. I a
lot of times when you're using a flash update, you
just go with the zip file and the actual device
will will unzip those and kind of let it run
through its motions. I don't know how the JVC car

(31:56):
stereo works but typically what you would do is you
would go on the website looks like you I already
did this. You would find the firmware update. You would
download it to the flask drive. You plug that flask
drive into the JVC, You go into the settings menu
and you say update firmware. It will find the flash drive,
find the software on that flask drive, run through the software,

(32:16):
update the software, update the firmware, and restart the JVC,
and your phone should work better. I don't know why
your phone is breaking up. That is odd. It shouldn't
be happening. It could be as easy as unpairing the
JVC and repairing it. It could be resetting all of
your network connections on the JVC. That's a setting under

(32:37):
general and reset that will wipe all your Wi Fi
connections and things away, so you will have to reconnect
all your Wi Fi and cellular and Bluetooth. But that
could fix it, or it could just be that you
need to restart your phone. That could fix it. I
with the iPhone rarely see choppiness with Bluetooth. It's something

(32:57):
that I often see with Android device is Back in
the day, I wouldn't say much anymore, but it was
definitely much more of a of an Android thing, but
it should not be. It sounds like whenever there's choppiness,
you know, something is maybe running in the background. So
you can maybe go through your apps, delete stuff that
you don't need or don't want, and then restart the phone.

(33:18):
But that's what I would recommend, go through those steps.
But once you get that firmware on, you know, maybe
try the stuff like restart your iPhone, see if that helps,
but and then disconnect it for sure from the bluetooth
on the JVC. Restart your iPhone, then reconnect it and
see hopefully that should work out because there should be
no choppiness. I don't know how old. I mean, it's
an iPhone eleven, it's not that old. The JVC, I mean,

(33:40):
Bluetooth is not like a new thing. It's not like
it's this, you know, wild thing you're trying to do.
It's it's pretty simple. So I would just check those
things and see if they work. All right? Do we
want to talk iPad os sixteen. Now, it's tough for
me to get excited about the iPad because I do
not do anything of use on the iPad. The most

(34:02):
I do on my iPad is look at the Wall
Street Journal and use the Peloton app on there. That's
basically it. I mean, there's not much I do on
the iPad. I don't really even read books on there
because I read them on my kindle. So the iPad
to me, has not really evolved in a meaningful way
in many, many years because I don't use one tenth

(34:25):
of the power of the iPad. And I think the
iPad is absolutely Gosh, you're really going to tell me
I'm an Apple fanboy by the end of this podcast,
But the iPad is the best tablet out there. It
just is. It does what you need. It's amazing. Yes,
there are cheaper tablets out there, but if you want
a tablet that lasts a really long time and is

(34:45):
super powerful and very easy and it works, the iPad
is the way to go. Yes, you can get a
fire tablet from Amazon. It's just not going to be
as The experience is going to be painful at best. Okay,
the experience is going to be fine, painful at the worst.
I guess I should say. Let's talk about the new

(35:07):
features on iPad os sixteen. The number one feature is
Stage Manager. This is kind of Apple's way of tiptoeing
into making the iPad a real kind of computer device.
So there's been a lot of talk about Apple killing
off laptops and Apple killing off the Mac, but that's
not happening. The Mac computer and the iPad are here

(35:31):
to say, are they getting similar features? Is there some overlap? Yes, yes, yes,
But the reality of the situation with the iPad is this,
If you can run your personal computing life on an
iPad and maybe with a keyboard or a pencil and
an iPhone, that's amazing. That is just congrats, that's so cool.

(35:55):
But if you're like me and you want to do
that but you can't because you edit video on your
computer and you write video on your computer, then that's
just not a possibility. Like I need final cut on
my laptop. If you don't need that, if you just
do emails, if you just do word documents, maybe spreadsheets,
although I think that's probably way easier on a laptop.

(36:17):
But if you're just doing even photo editing, maybe you
just need an iPad and it's amazing. So Apple is
adding features to the iPad that makes it similar to
a computer, but I don't think they're trying to replace
the computer in the process. If it can be replaced
for you. Like I said, that's awesome. But they're trying
to give people options and they're trying to give people

(36:39):
different ways of doing things. So one of those things
is Stage Manager, which is a whole new way to
multitask with overlapping windows and full external display support. That
is coming to the iPad in iOS sixteen, but only
if you have an m one chip inside your iPad,
which is basically the recent models of the iPad. They

(37:00):
also have this thing called Freeform, which is an app
that is kind of a flexible canvas. They describe it
as kind of like, you know, you can collaborate with
your family on there, or you're sorry, your your colleagues,
your friends or family. This has given me major Google
buzz vibes. I'm gonna call it doa but we'll say, well,

(37:20):
you let me know if you use it. I just
can't imagine anyone will ever use that. But we'll say
mail same thing. You can schedule a piece of mail,
you can unsend a message canceled delivery before it reaches
someone's inbox. So I guess they'll give you a couple
of minutes to do that. You can move in an

(37:41):
email to the top of your inbox to send a
follow up. The iCloud Shared library is there. Let's see
the weather app is coming to the iPad. I don't
know why I looked forward the other day. I was
planning a trip and I was like, oh, let me
see what the weather's gonna be like. And I couldn't
believe that the weather app was not on the iPad.
So I'm glad that they're bringing the weather app to
the iPad ten years after the iPad debuts. Let's see

(38:03):
what else I talked about. The stage manager lets you
create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view.
You can drag and drop. You can open apps from
the dock, create groups of apps. Again, only on the
iPad Pro and iPad Air with the M one chip.
And I think, I mean, look again, there's a whole
bunch of stuff. But that's kind of the high level

(38:24):
stuff that I think is interesting. So yes, there will
be more, but that's iPad in a nutshell. Hello. As
far as Internet security for your computer, what is a
good recommendation for a home computer, McAfee, etc. I would
appreciate any assistance in this regard. I just bought a

(38:44):
new HP. We also have an IMAX, so I never
really worried about it before. Thank you, Louri Laurie. No
one likes to hear the answer I have, but I
don't think you need a lot of Internet security on
your computer. I think Windows Defender that is built into
your computer will be just fine. I think the more
important thing is really watching what you click on the Internet.

(39:06):
That is the main thing you have to watch for.
Downloading apps that are just either garbage or malware, or
links that are malicious. That is the main thing you
need to look out for. Because, yeah, mccaffee, you can
install it and it's gonna have a million warnings and
pop ups and says it's protecting you and it's doing

(39:26):
all this. But like, really, when it comes down to it,
if you're not clicking links that have malware, you're gonna
be okay. If you're not clicking links from untrusted senders,
you're gonna be okay. If you're not downloading things that
could have a virus, you're gonna be okay. If you
want to protect yourself, you know, I think Windows Defender,
keep that up to date, keep it running keep it on.

(39:48):
I think that's gonna be your best bet. It's free,
it's built into Windows, and I think you'll be okay there. Now,
if you think you already have malware on your computer,
I would maybe recommend installing malware bites on there and
running it and seeing what it comes up with. But
I don't think so, because you just bought a new HP.
What I would do is go through the programs I'd

(40:09):
removed programs on the HP and get rid of all
the garbage that is pre installed in this computer. There's
probably a ton of it. One of those apps is
probably McAfee. You're probably getting some sort of you know,
free trial to some sort of security program and antivirus program,
and la la la, I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.
You don't need it. It's like scare tactics. It's just

(40:31):
so many pop up windows you have to deal with.
This is why when Microsoft still had stores, I recommended
buying computers from the Microsoft Store because they were what
were called signature additions. If you sold your computer in
a Microsoft store, you could not install crapwear or bloatwear
on it. You just Apple or Microsoft did not allow it. Now,

(40:51):
if you're buying a computer from Dell, if you're buying
a computer from HP, what are the other big brands
acer you know, these computers just come pre installed a
lot of stuff because these computer companies get a lot
of money. They get a lot of money from nor In,
from McAfee, from all these computer companies that install little
parts of their program and say, hey, we'll pay you

(41:13):
a fifty bucks each computer that you would you would
pre install this on in hopes of the person that
gets that computer will be scared enough into subscribing to
that program, and now they'll get a little bit of
money on the back end from that subscription. So I
don't think you need it. I think it's a lot
of like busy work with all these things. I think
you just you know, we're doing most of our work

(41:33):
online in the cloud anyway, So if you're using like
Windows or sorry, yeah, I mean Windows three sixty five,
or if you're using Gmail, or if you're using Google Docs, like,
a lot of the stuff we're doing is happening online.
So the amount of apps that you're actually downloading to
your computer, you know, probably isn't very much. And if
you're downloading apps, usually they're from a reputable source. You know.

(41:57):
The main thing is to make sure when you download stuff,
you're not using that top link that says add on Google.
So if you're searching for Chrome, you know, scroll down
to the fifth or sixth link whatever. It is. Used
to be only three links at the top on Google
where the sponsored links. I think now they've extended that
to many, many more. But you know, make sure you're
scrolling past the sponsored links and going to the actual

(42:20):
link and downloading programs from there. If it looks like
some weird website, you know, check the url. Make sure
that it's not like Chrome downloader dot com. Like no, no,
no, no no, make sure it's coming from Google. If you're
downloading any sort of like free app or whatever, just
make sure it's coming from a reputable site. Now I'm
not saying that you don't ever need security on your computer.
I'm just saying that the level of security you need

(42:41):
a lot of it is taken care of with something
like McAfee. If you need something else, there are there
is a website that will that ranks this stuff, and
it's it's av test avdash test dot org. And you
can go and see the windows ten. What they rank

(43:04):
as the top security that you need for Windows ten.
So they like something called on lab ahn lab. Then
it's a VAST, then it's AVEG, then it's a Verra,
then it's Bitdefender, then f secure. I mean McAfee ranks
like pretty low. Actually Windows Defender ranks under them, which
is surprising. Nor In is even lower than all of that.

(43:26):
So again total av even lower, trend Micro almost at
the bottom. So again I would check, you know, just
check these rankings on there and go with something on
there if you want a program that's sort of running
all the time in the background to sort of monitor
for all of this stuff. But I don't necessarily think
y'all need it, but you do have to. You do

(43:47):
have to keep yourself safe out there. I mean, there
are a lot of people that are trying to scam
you in different ways, but ninety nine percent of the
scams that I see nowadays, a lot of it has
to do with fishing links, and not just phishing link links,
but also social engineering. So techts that have malicious links
just a lot of a lot of social engineering to

(44:10):
get us to click and hand over our information to
the bad people. And it's just not good. All right,
let's talk about some of the hardware that was unveiled
at WWDC. We got a new MacBook Air and a
new MacBook Pro. They updated the MacBook Pro thirteen inch.
They redesigned the MacBook Air. I went hands on with

(44:31):
the MacBook Air, and yeah, it kind of takes the
design language that Apple has been using a little more
like cyborgy. I don't know how to describe it, but
it's kind of like much more like metal, like with
these edges that are a little bit more like commanding.
But yeah, so it has the M two chip inside.
This is the second generation of Apple's own processor. Remember

(44:52):
they made their own processors for the iPhone. Now they
make their own processors for computers. M two is the
second generation, you know, is it like, oh my gosh,
so much better than the M one. I don't know.
I'm not a processor like tester person, but I know
the M one got very rave reviews. I'm sure the
M two is great. It also delivers support for up

(45:14):
to twenty four gigs of memory, so now instead of sixteen,
you could have twenty four gigs, which, of course, if
you're doing something like video editing or something like that.
It's gonna be a lot better. You can't have enough memory.
MacBook Air has a new design. It's two point seven pounds.
It's thinner, it's lighter, it's faster. It also has two
new colors, Midnight and Starlight, So in addition to space

(45:38):
gray and silver, if I was getting this, i'd probably
get the Midnight. Honestly, that's a pretty nice color. It's
like a blue color, dark blue navy. If I had
to translate, Starlight is kind of a like a cream color,
I would say. So. I did not see that one
in person. I'm sure it was there, I just didn't.
I missed it. They also have a three point five
inch audio jack on there, and it's got mag Safe again.

(46:03):
Now mag Safe has come back to the MacBook Air.
If you're not familiar with mag Safe, it's instead of
plugging in USBC to charge your laptop, it's a proprietary connector,
but it has a magnet and so when you trip
over the cord that is that is connecting your cable
to the wall or your your computer to the wall,
your computer does not go flying and get ruined. The

(46:25):
cord just yanks itself out of your computer because it's
just held in there by a magnet. They also say
that the HD FaceTime camera is better now it's a
new ten ADP FaceTime HD camera, the larger image sensor.
We'll have to see how much better that is. But
I'll talk more about the solution for the camera that

(46:47):
Apple has in a moment when we talk about the
new Mac os. Let's see the charging the charging brick,
whatever you want to call it, is actually kind of cool.
They have this new one which is great. It has
as two USB C ports in it, so now you
can charge your laptop and something else at the same time,

(47:08):
and that's a great thing. It's gonna cost you a
little bit more to get that, so it's not included
as far as I can tell, it's not included in
the laptop. Let's see, the thirty WAT USB C power
adapter is thirty nine dollars, So do they not include
a power adapter at all? I don't know. The thirty
five WAT dual USBC port adapter is sixty dollars, and

(47:33):
then you have a thirty five WoT dual USBC adapter
for fifty nine. What's the difference US thirty five WAT
dual USBC I don't know. Oh and then you okay,
never mind. So anyway, it's sixty bucks if you want
that dual one. Maybe it comes with a regular one.
I'm not sure. I didn't. I didn't get that information.

(47:54):
Computer prices MacBook Air with M two starts at twelve
hundred dollars. It's eleven hundred if you have an ED
education ID or your student teacher whatever. A thirteen inch
MacBook Pro with M two starts at thirteen hundred and
twelve hundred for education. So those are going to be
two solid computers. I still say that Apple needs to
make a computer that is five hundred and ninety nine dollars,

(48:16):
that is a laptop. Take that old M one chip
in two years or maybe a year when it's finally
kind of out of its life cycle with your regular laptops,
and pop that into a computer that is just basic
laptop and make it six hundred dollars. And I'm telling
you that thing will sell like hotcakes. This is what
Apple needs, because it is that's the price point that

(48:39):
the average person wants. The average person does not want
to pay eleven hundred or twelve hundred dollars for a laptop.
They want to pay five to six hundred dollars. That's
how do I know that? It's because those are the
emails that I get on a daily basis. When people
ask me for a laptop. They don't say, rich, what's
the best most expensive Mac laptop I can purchase? I've
got a budget. That's just you've earn in a hole

(49:00):
in my pocket. No, they say, Rich, I love Apple,
I want a MacBook, but I want to spend five
hundred dollars. What can I get for that price? And
you know, I tell them, look, you know you're gonna
have to get an acer or some sort of you know,
laptop at best Buy that is five hundred dollars or
six hundred dollars. It's it's tough to get a six
hundred dollars laptop that's really that good. They're not going

(49:23):
to be as good as the MacBooks. And I tell people, look,
you spend the twelve hundred dollars on a MacBook and
it's going to last you four years, minimum, five years,
six years. I mean, these laptops can last a very
long time. And that's what people forget because we're so
instant gratification in our world that you want to spend
five hundred six hundred because that's what you've saved up,

(49:43):
or that feels like it's it's approachable, but you're not
realizing that that laptop is going to bore you to
death in three years with how slow it is, and
so you're just going to be wanting to replace that
after a couple of years. It's going to be slow,
it's gonna be laggy, it's going to be at a
date by the time you, you know, have it for a
couple of years, whereas the MacBook. I'm telling you, these

(50:04):
things will continue to perform at a very very good
clip for five, six, seven, eight, you know, eight years.
Maybe I'm trying to think because I replace mine every
couple of years, but I pass it down, like my
my dad has my old laptop. Uh before, I've had
my old laptop which my other kid, which my kid has,

(50:25):
and then my current laptop. So I'm gonna be passing
these all down again when I end up buying a
new laptop. But my dad, the one that he has
is probably a twenty sixteen at this point. I mean,
you're talking that's what four or five six years old.
That's and it's still fine. Like when I go over there,
I kind of clean it up a little bit. It's yeah,
it's running a little bit slower, but it's still fine

(50:46):
for like what he's doing, which is mainly Facebook. Let's
be honest here, all right, let's get to the next
question of the podcast. Here, Lisa says, Hey, Rich, I
just read your article on VPNs. I'm looking for an idea.
What do I need to put on my iPad and
iPhone when I travel to make it more secure? I

(51:07):
visit internet cafes. My next trip will be aboard a ship.
Do I need to get some other security besides a
VPN in addition to other security? What are recommendations on
packages like I keep getting messages from McAfee. I'm afraid
to install it because I've read the reviews and some
seem like there's difficulties in connecting after installation. I hope
I've asked all the pertinent questions. I am in no
way security expert. I've had Apple products for years, and

(51:29):
I've totally dropped the ball because I think they're mostly
safe from attack. Thank you very much, Lisa. Lisa, You're right,
they are very much safe from attack, and I don't
think you need any special software on them whatsoever, on
your iPhone or iPad at all. The main thing, like
I said from before, you have to watch out for
is phishing scams. You're not going to download an app

(51:50):
on the iPhone or iPad in passing because it's just
not allowed. You have to go through the app store,
and the app store is vetted. So, yes, could there
be malicious software on the app store? Perhaps? Does it happen?
Not really, so I think you're going to be okay there.
When it comes to antivirus all that stuff, you don't
need any of that stuff on the iPhone. Now, when
it comes to a VPN, yes, I did an article

(52:12):
on VPNs, and this is a great segue to talk
about what the experts told me. And so when do
you need a VPN? You do not need a VPN
in your computer for day to day use. It's just
something that you don't need. When do you want to
use a VPN? I would recommend a VPN in this
situation when you want to protect your web surfing and

(52:32):
secure your internet, when you're doing anything private or sensitive
like banking, when you are on an untrusted public Wi
Fi connection. Now that's a lot to unpack. In general,
I don't think you need a VPN unless you are
on some sort of sketchy Wi Fi. If you're on

(52:53):
you can expand that to public Wi Fi. So if
you want to secure your browsing and anything you're doing
on your computer on public Wi Fi, yes, get a VPN,
turn it on when you're on public Wi Fi. Use
it and you'll be fine. I'll talk about the VPNs
I recommend in a moment. If you ever want to
just secure your connection, if you're somewhere where you are

(53:13):
doing you know you need to look up your credit card,
your bank account, whatever. All you have to do is
switch into cellular mode, turn off your Wi Fi, get
on cellular, and you'll be fine. Cellular is very secure.
If you want to use your laptop, just use your
hotspot from your cellular connection from your phone, and that's
also very secure. Now, if you want to use a VPN,

(53:34):
like I said, if you're doing any sort of banking
or any sort of sensitive information, most of the websites
you're connecting to, by the time you go to Gmail
dot com, yes, the Wi Fi connection, we'll be able
to see that you've gone to Google to Gmail, but
they're not gonna be able to see what you're exchanging
on Gmail because Gmail is encrypted. You can tell that

(53:55):
a site is encrypted by looking at the little lock
next to the website name. So anything you actually do
on that website is going to be safe and secure.
Your ISP or the Internet service provider will be able
to see the websites that you go to. They may
be able to see the URLs, but they won't be
able to see what you're doing on that website, the
information you're exchanging with that website. So what VPNs are recommended?

(54:20):
I talked to a couple experts and molvad m u
lll VAD is the top recommended VPN and I actually
really like them because their pricing is super easy. It's
five dollars a month. Whether you use it for a month,
a year, a decade, it's five dollars a month every month.
There's no like you know, pre pay for three years,

(54:42):
prepay for four years, five years, a decade, whatever. It's
five bucks a month and it checks all of the
boxes that are expert liked, which is no log which
means it doesn't keep a track of what you're doing
on there. It does not servers and lots of locations.
It works on a variety of devices. It's fast and

(55:05):
so moulvad m U l l v A D seems
to be a really good one. The other recommendations IVPN
surf Shark and tunnel Bear. And we also talked to
someone from Mozilla. I've been using their VPN to test
it out and it seems to check all the boxes
as well. And again, you're going to be paying five
to ten dollars a month for a good VPN. You're

(55:26):
not going to get a good free VPN. Again, do
not use a free VPN. You get what you pay for,
and I'm telling you it's just not worth it. So
don't get the free VPN. All right? Is that it?
I think that's it for that topic. But yeah, and
I think that's it when it comes to the you know,

(55:50):
the Apple products. You don't really need much more on there.
All right, let's get to the final thing before we
go here mac Os Ventura. It's named after Ventura in California.
I believe it's Ventura County. I don't think there's like
a Ventura rock that they mentioned, but Ventura they said
they were. You know, it's an area of California, just

(56:11):
outside Los Angeles. It's also Ventura County, and they said
they were inspired by the colorful wildflowers and the surf
of that area. So yeah, a lot of surfing, a
lot of beach. Ventura has it all. So I thought
that was kind of cool. They stage Manager is coming
to the Mac again, same thing like I mentioned on
the iPad. Then they've got continuity camera. This is interesting.

(56:34):
So they're making these clips in association with Belkin that
you clip your iPhone to your the top of your
laptop screen, I know, kind of weird, and then you
can use your iPhone as a webcam on the Mac.
And so it automatically recognizes that you're using the Mac
and the iPhone, so you don't have to wake up
your iPhone. It just automatically triggers the webcam when you

(56:56):
hang it there apparently, or when you kind of I
don't know, I don't know how it triggers it, but
it does. And it also has this feature called desk View,
and so it's doing this neat thing where if you
have your iPhone clipped onto your laptop screen, it will
it uses the back cameras and one of those cameras
is a wide angle camera, so somehow they're using AI

(57:19):
to use that wide angle to see what you've got
in front of your laptop keyboard. So it almost makes
it like a top down camera where you can show
little demos of like a magic trick that used as
an example, or you know anything. Let's say you're carving
a bar of soap and you want to show people
on your live stream what you're doing. You can show
that with your phone that is facing you, but somehow

(57:39):
it's angled down, so that's kind of cool. It's called
desk view. I can't wait to try that out. They
also say that the iPhone is going to give a
clearer webcam, a better looking webcam, and there's a whole
bunch of other features on mac os, but those are
sort of the main ones. There's also handoff coming to FaceTime,
so you can start a FaceTime on your iPhone and

(58:01):
then you can continue it on your Mac computer. So
that's kind of cool and I love that. All right,
Let's get to a couple more little items of note
here before we go. Anthony says, thanks for the Verizon discount.
I heard you talking about your last episode of the
Verizon loyalty discount is actually true. I thought it was
a scam. I just call them now. I'm getting twenty
five dollars a month discount on my bill. Thanks so

(58:23):
much for letting your listeners know, Tony. Great. Yeah, that
was quite the thing. I talked about it in the
last podcast, the Verizon text that people were getting for
the discount, and boy was there a lot of discussion
on my Facebook page about that. But yes, if you
got a Verizon text, call in get the discount. It
is legitimate. But be careful about any sort of text
like that. I thought it was weird that Verizon did that.

(58:46):
Raymond says Doctor Squatch Soap at Walmart. I'm an avid
listener of your podcast, and I thought i'd let you
know that I was able to find Doctor Squatch bar
soap at our Walmart here in Las Vegas. So far,
they carry wood barrel, bourbon, pine tar, fresh falls, and
citrus cedar. Hopefully they have it at the Walmart near you.
They're selling for five ninety eight a piece. I just
thought you could save on shipping. That is awesome. You know,

(59:09):
I love my Doctor Squatch and I do order it
on the Doctor Squatch website. I did order on Amazon once.
My last Oh interesting, they don't put the prices in
my last order. I'm looking up here, but my last
order had Alpine Sage, Cold Brew, Klein's Wood Barrel, Bourbon Bayrum,
Pine Tar, and the Batman Collection. But I will tell

(59:31):
you that all these flavors that you mentioned, wood Barrel, Bourbon,
pine Tar, Fresh Falls, and Citrus cedar are all excellent.
I'm sure that's why they did them because of probably
the most popular ones. Six dollars apiece sounds pretty good.
I mean, I think if I could tell how much
I paid for these, it'd be great, but I can't.
So I think that that's a great price for doctor Squatch.

(59:54):
And if it's at your local Walmart, why not, more
power to you. So I don't go to Walmart often.
Oh here we go. Oh wow, that's actually a great price,
because if you buy them online, it looks like they're
seven dollars apiece, and then I usually get a little
bit of a discount depending on the whatever code they have,
and shipping is free, so it looks like it's four

(01:00:16):
dollars off. So yeah, I'd say it's about the same
price you'd pay on the website, but obviously you can
get them instantly, so that's really cool. Thanks for the
for the note. I'm glad you're looking out for me.
If you haven't tried The Doctor Squatch, it's excellent. I'll
put a little link in the show notes. I'm gonna
try to do the show notes. I know I get
a lot of complaints on Twitter about the show notes.
I personally literally use show notes on podcasts like once,

(01:00:41):
like every ten episodes on a show, I'll be like, oh,
they mentioned something, but I know I talk about a
lot of useful stuff. So I will try to put
the show notes back in so you got the links
to the stuff I mentioned. Well, that sound does mean
that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.
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