March 12, 2021 • 54 mins
How to opt-out of T-Mobile targeted advertising; NFT's explained; Sonos Roam; Using Siri to find cheap gas fast; Netflix cracks down on password sharing; Twitter tests support for higher quality images. Listeners offer feedback on the Apple HomePod Mini and Wyze cams and ask about the PhotoStick Mobile and InfiniKloud, sending videos on an Android phone via SMS, password manager apps, Fall Detection on the Apple Watch, Google warning about exposed passwords and facial recognition for photos.LinksFollow RichSnow in Rich's backyardOpt-out of T-Mobile targeted advertisingNFT's explainedSonos RoamSiri for cheap gasNetflix password sharingTwitter 4K photosWyze cam outdoor solar attachmentBitwarden password managerGoogle Passwords See 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 (00:10):
Everyone's going wild over NFTs. Netflix cracks down on sharing,
using Siri to find the best gas prices. Plus your
tech questions answered, What's going on? I'm Rich Tomorrow and
this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
(00:32):
It's also the place where I answer the questions you
send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You may also find me on.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Other stations around the US. So the company that owns
KTLA also has like one hundred something stations across the nation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So I get a lot of emails.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
These days or texts and tweets or whatever from people saying, oh,
I saw you in Hawaii, I saw you in New Mexico,
saw you in.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I don't know wherever. So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So if you found me in one of those places,
thank you for tuning in and listening. And what a
week it's been in Los Angeles, because well, it's snowed
in my backyard. In my backyard, there was well maybe
it wasn't snow, but it was definitely something that resembled snow,
and I guess it was technically hal or. Someone told
(01:28):
me it was something called gropple. I don't know. But
the point is when your kid is in the other
room distance learning, and you're in your office and you
hear wild screaming and you run over there to see
what happened, and you'll look outside the back door and
it's just totally a winter wonderland. I couldn't believe it.
It was pretty awesome. So I don't think I've ever
(01:49):
seen that happen in Los Angeles ever, now, given we
have the mountains here, and so of course if you're
in the mountains, they're very familiar with snow and hail
and sleet and all that stuff. But when you just
of in like La proper like I do, and it's
coming down in your backyard, that's pretty wild. So I
got a cool video on my Instagram of me kind
of picking up whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Whatever this was, you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Know, snow, hail, sleet, gropple, whatever it was. I picked
it up and it felt pretty amazing for a minute.
And then, by the way, it all melted in about
a half an hour to an hour afterwards, So that
generally happens. But it's also been raining in La so
it's been kind of wild weather. Here in Los Angeles
and probably across the nation. I know, you know, there's
(02:31):
been a snowstorms and this and that, so hopefully you're
good where you are. But let's get to the first
item of business here. Tea Mobile is stepping up targeting advertising.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This is the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They first noticed this, but they sent an email or
I guess they just updated their privacy policy. I don't
know how they found this, but they said, starting April
twenty sixth, Tea Mobile subscribers will basically have whatever they
do on their phone tracked by Team Mobile. And I mean,
I guess that's always been going on, but now they're
going to use that information to target advertising. So they're
(03:06):
not just you know, these companies don't just overtly share
your information. But what they do is they build a database.
So let's say I'm an advertiser and I want to
sell you socks, and so I go on to the
T mobile, you know, advertising back end, and I say,
I want to target everyone who has looked up socks
or any sort of you know, undergarments in the last
(03:28):
six months, and boom, now you see my ad inserted
on any of those pages or wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
However, T Mobile does ads. I don't know, but you know,
so you would see my ad in all those places.
So historically I guess they didn't really do this, but
you know, the reality is TEA Mobile said, you know,
we've heard they told the Wall Street Journal, We've heard
many say they prefer more relevant ads. So we're defaulting
to this setting. So this is a default for sixty
(03:57):
million people. And what does that do?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That just turns off on a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's like a money spigot that T Mobile is turning
on because guess what, no matter what you use, unless
you're on a VPN, you know, if you're incognito mode
or you know, whatever browser you're using, pretty much a
lot of these times, you're still your ISP still gets
to see what you're doing. And so a T Mobile
in this case is the ISP Internet service provider. They're
(04:23):
the ones that actually serve up the website on the
back end using their data and your data plan if
you're not on your WiFi, and so they see kind
of where you're going and they say, okay, this person
likes scooters, they like tropical vacations, they like socks. And
so now when those companies come to target them boom.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They can do that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So if you don't like this idea, you can actually
opt out, and the way you do it is that
you go into the T mobile app, or you can
go there's a sprint way to opt out and a
metro way to opt out. I put the instructions for
T Mobile. I'll put them in the in the notes
because I shared this street Journal article. But they're apparently paywalled,
(05:04):
so you can't really just see these instructions that they
put on there. But I'll put the instructions. T Mobile
actually put out a YouTube video with instructions on how
to do it. So if you want to opt out,
I'm kind of like one of those people that I
would rather see an ad that's targeted than not, I guess,
but I also see why you know this is I
call these those follow me ads, the ads that just
follow you from place to place to place. So a
(05:27):
lot of this stuff, well this may not be that,
but anyway, the point is, you know, if you don't
like your information sliced and diced and shared then or targeted,
then you probably want to opt out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
T Mobile does say that your your personal identity is
not linked to the data that you have. Right, so
all your they don't know you as like Rich DeMuro
that likes socks. It's just this person likes socks, and
so you should target your ads towards this person. But
the reality is, we know, over and over, I've heard
(05:58):
this and seen this from so many people that they
don't just use one database per se. A lot of
times these very advanced advertising systems will merge various databases.
So just because T Mobile doesn't hand over your ID,
believe me, there's other ways for them to get it.
So at the end of the day, they pretty much
know everything they need to know about you. All right,
(06:23):
let's get to the first Uh is this a question?
This looks like some feedback? All right, hey, Rich, just
some simple feedback regarding your product recommendations. The Apple home
Pod Mini, recommended so highly, has turned out to be
a bust. The sound quality pales in comparison to the
JBL Flip five. The Mini has become unreliable by not
responding to touch or voice command for Siri.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We're trying to return the unit, but Apple insists it's
inspected by their Genius bar. First, I previously purchased the
JBL Flip five speaker for our sun It has rechargeable batteries,
it's completely portable, the volume is better. Let's see on
circles around the Apple home Pod Mini, all for the
same price.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Also, the Wise products are starting out to be a
bust too. If you want further details, let me know.
The cameras and sensors keep going offline. The batteries don't last.
When I replace the batteries, the sensors and motion sensors
still state the batteries need replacement. I can't trust Wise
as a security product because of these issues. Jim in
Orange County, Well, Jim, uh yeah, Well look, I mean
(07:26):
here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And I say this over and over.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Just because I say to get something does not mean
that it is the end all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You just go out and run out and buy it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Like I am just one opinion in a sea of
many opinions, and with the Internet, there are so many
opinions out there. So my opinion is that the old
Apple HomePod Mini is amazing, and I still think it's amazing,
And yeah, are there things that can be improved, of course,
like any first generation product or any product in general,
but for the ninety nine dollars that I you see
(07:58):
this thing as I think it's amazing as an iPhone companion.
And yes, the JBL Flip five is a totally different product.
That's a wireless, portable Bluetooth speaker. So that's that's something
that's totally different than what the HomePod Mini is. The
HomePod Mini is, you know, a smart home device. It
connects you to the Apple ecosystem. It sounds good for
(08:20):
the size. Yes, you have to keep it plugged into
the wall, but that's what it is. It's a it's
part of a you can group them, which I don't
believe you could do with the Flip five. So you know,
the reality is if it didn't work out for you,
I'm totally fine with that. Like clearly I'm O for
two with my recommendations for you, but it doesn't mean
that they are bad recommendations. I've gotten many emails from
people saying how impressed they are with the HomePod Mini.
(08:40):
I personally still think it's amazing. I've bought them for
my sister. She thinks it's amazing. The wisecam I mean,
I haven't gotten a lot of negative feedback about the Wyscam.
In fact, I would say ninety nine percent of tech
reviewers love the wise products, myself included. And so you know,
specifically with the outdoor cam, yes, the battery does run down.
(09:02):
It could run down very fast depending on how often
it's being activated. Now, I will tell you that I
have been testing a device from Wasserman It's called or
sorry Wasserstein Wasserstein Home and this has been amazing for
the wise Cam outdoor. It is fantastic. I'm trying to
(09:24):
get it into a segment on KTLA, but it's just
one of these things where I can't do a full
segment on this thing. But it's really cool and I
love it, so I just have to, you know, work
it into like a roundup or something. But I will
be featuring it because I just think it really extends
the use of this outdoor camera. And it's the Wasserstein
solar panel and you plug it into the Wisecam outdoor
(09:48):
and you put it in a sunny spot and boom,
you never have to charge your wys cam ever. Again,
I've been using this now for probably a month and
I have not had to charge my camera at all.
And I will tell you right now, my backyard camera
is at one hundred percent and it's been there for month,
for a month now, and so I really really like
(10:09):
this thing. I think for thirty six ninety nine, normally
forty five. It's on sale right now. Apparently it is
just one of those things that is like a no brainer.
And if you look around your neighborhood, this is not
a new idea. You see a lot of these things.
Like it's basically a flat panel that you aim on
your roof towards the sky. It has it must have
some sort of battery inside, because when I first got it,
(10:30):
it didn't work. I told the company, I said, this
thing doesn't even work, and they said, well, you have
to keep it out in the sun for ten hours
charge your Okay, So you keep it out in the
sun for ten hours without plugging it into the camera,
then you charge your camera fully to one hundred percent,
and then you plug it in, You keep it in
the sun, and boom, your camera will stay one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
At least that's been my experience. I'll link this up
in the.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Notes, but I got to say that really changed the
game for me with this wisecamout door and So, Jim,
as much as I know you don't trust wise, I
think they are a fantastic products. The thing that I've
gotten the feedback on the most has been the shipping
and kind of like people ordering things and it's taken
a while to get But other than that, I mean,
the actual cameras are are pretty phenomenal for the price
(11:12):
that these things charge. So Jim, thanks for the feedback.
I always welcome feedback, good or bad, and believe me,
I get a lot of it. And you know, it's
it's it's all good, all right. So everyone is going
wild over these things called NFTs, and it's just it's
such like it's one of these things where it's so
weird how you see something once and all of a sudden,
(11:34):
it's just like a flood. It's like it arrives. Like
everything is now referencing an NFT on the internet.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So what is an NFT. I broke it down.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I talked to someone that's an expert and I, you know,
try to explain this on KTLA in my segment and
it's really tough because I don't even really understand it.
But the reality is NFT stands for non fungible Token
and if you want to think of these in this
simplest terms, it's basically a collectible like a beanie baby
(12:04):
or a baseball card, but it only exists online. And
so a lot of these things that people have been
selling have been, you know, a piece of digital art
or you can do anything as an NFT anything like
and it doesn't have to be digital. But for the
terms of me explaining this, I will keep it digital.
But theoretically you could extend it to something that's physical
(12:24):
as well. But let's say you have the Mona Lisa.
There are many Mona Lisa paintings or recreations around the world,
you know, copies, but there's only one. So that one
Mona Lisa is is a collectible. It's a valuable item
that is non fungible. Right, you can't make another one
of them, but a copy if you put on a
T shirt that's fungible, it's like, you know, you can
(12:45):
make a million of them. So that's kind of the
base thing, is that there can only be one and
then one. Once you have this one thing, you sell
it and it's it's a token and it's part of
the blockchain, and so you say this is a sign
to you, and so it really comes down to scarcity.
So a couple examples. I gave a rare original arcade game,
(13:07):
you know, like an arcade console is non fungible, you
can't make another one. So when I buy that, it's
valuable because it's like a pac Man original in my
house right. A gaming chip from a casino non fungible.
That's let's say the casino is gone, like it's imploded
or whatever. You know, that's non fungible because it's a
collector's item. A twenty dollars bill, Now this is interesting.
A twenty dollars bill is fungible and non fungible. So
(13:31):
it's fungible because if I lent you twenty dollars and
you paid me back, I wouldn't I wouldn't expect to
get the same exact twenty dollars bill back that I
gave you, So that means it's fungible. But let's say
I did expect it back, because every twenty dollars bill
has a serial number on it that's non fungible. Like
if I was like, no, you got to give me
the exact same twenty back in a week, which nobody
(13:52):
would ever say that would be non fungible. So if
you understand the difference between fungible and non fungible, you
sort of understand NFTs.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
People have been spending a lot of money on these NFTs.
That's because you buy them with cryptocurrency, and a lot
of people have these big cryptocurrency balances because that's gone up.
Open c is one of the big online marketplaces for NFTs,
and you know, some people are using them as an investment.
Some people are using them as like, oh, this is
really cool, like the Kings of Leon, you know, put
(14:21):
an album out as an NFT.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You buy it, it's yours, and you know you love.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It because it's a collectible and it's like the first
time they've done it, and it's really cool to you.
But other people are just speculating. Let's see the other
thing to know about NFTs, And this is what I
thought was the most interesting part of n fts compared
to say a let's say you bought a one of
a kind painting in real life from someone, right, Well,
(14:45):
when you go to sell that, you have to have
some sort of leather letter of authenticity or you know,
an auction house would verify that that's a unique item.
But with NFTs, what's really interesting is that they are
ownership and authenticity is public and provable thanks to the blockchain.
And that's the same blockchain that powers cryptocurrency. It's the
(15:06):
same idea that cryptocurrency is all. You know, it's all verifiable, right,
Like what you own is verified by Math.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You don't have to go to Chase Bank and say, hey,
do I have a one hundred dollars in cryptocurrency? No,
like anyone can verify through Math that you own that
money and it's yours and you can transfer it to
someone else. Same thing with NFTs. So I don't know
if I'm doing a good job of explaining this. Hopefully
it makes a little sense and you get a little
idea of what people are going wild over. But the
(15:34):
easiest way to think about it is it's just something
that exists in digital form and you buy it with bitcoin,
and it's a collector's item and it's one of a kind,
and even though it could be replicated, you the original
is verifiable thanks to that blockchain technology.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Richard, good morning. Have you ever reviewed the photostick mobile
or Infinite Cloud, which is a better bite, do you
recommend something else? Just want to copy photos to free
up space, to take up more or to take more?
Thanks in Advanced Richard sent for my iPhone.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, so, if.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You've listened to this podcast for a while, I've gotten
this question over and over and over, and I got
to hand it to Photostick Mobile and Infinity Cloud. You
really have done a good job of marketing your products.
But when I go to your websites, that's when the
party is over, because these websites are something that I
(16:32):
would not really purchase from because they are you know. Actually,
I'm looking at the Infinity Cloud one and you know this,
it doesn't look as scammy as I thought. So, but
here's the thing, Ah, this is kind of weird. It
only has four hundred and twenty seven ratings on their app.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's kind of weird. That's not very much. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, at any rate, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
order one of these things and I'm gonna have to
see exactly how they work because I keep poopooing them
and I shouldn't poopoo them as much. I should really
see how they work and really try it for myself.
So with that said, generally, I don't recommend these because
(17:19):
you know this, this Infinity cloud actually doesn't look that bad,
but I have I need to test it out. But
the thing that I have tested and I do recommend
is the sand Disc I expand sand Disc I x
P A N D and you plug this little flask
drive into your iPhone, you download this software.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's got an app.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It'll even prompt you to download the software and boom,
all your photos are backed up and videos to this
little flask drive and then you can erase them off
your phone and have more more storage.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now, I would not.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Recommend doing that unless you have these also in a
different place, because if you ever lost this flash drive, boom,
all your pictures are gone, so you need to also
back them up. I would recommend something like Google Photos
or Amazon Photos, whatever you want, get them somewhere else
and get them backed up. It's getting tougher and tougher
to find free cloud storage these days, so you know
(18:11):
that's the main trick here is that everyone's starting to
kind of turn that little clamp.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
A little bit tighter. Right, It's like a little vice
gript It's like we're gonna squeeze just a little bit
of money out of you to store your photos.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Before it was all free and amazing Google Google Photos,
you still get fifteen gigs of storage. On iCloud you
get five gigs, which most people power through in about
one backup. And then on Amazon Photos if you're a
Prime member, you get unlimited storage for your photos, but
they only give you five. I think it's five gigs
(18:46):
of storage for your videos, which doesn't really get you
very far. And I like the idea of one of
these little drives to you know, offload some pictures, but honestly,
like I think it's just better in the cloud, Like
why go through this whole process of of putting it
on this thing that can like break or get lost
or stolen or anything, when you know, put it in
(19:06):
the cloud and you have a much better chance of
it of it lasting because you know, the cloud is
the cloud.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So that's my advice.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I will try to get one of these things, either
one or both in the Photostick Mobile or the Infinity
Cloud to really test them out and see maybe they're
not so bad. But again, I think the cloud is
a better place to do this. I know it costs
a little bit more, but I just think it's a
more secure way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But if you want to go with one of these things,
I would say in the meantime, check out the sand
disc I expand all right, I was just in Santa
Barbara yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
My my, my.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What a beautiful place. What a beautiful place, and it
was raining a little bit. I got this delicious pizza
that I always get when I'm there from this place
called Lucky Penny. If you want to see it, check
out my Instagram at rich On Tech. Don't do it
if you're hungry, because you will want to get this pizza.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's so so delicious.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But anyway I say this, I was up there for
an unrelated shoot yesterday. But Sonos is headquartered in Santa Barbara,
and they came out with a brand new product called
the Sons Rome and this is their Bluetooth speaker that's
totally portable. And what I love about this speaker, even
though I've not tested it yet, is that it is
a Bluetooth speaker, which is portable, but it also links
(20:22):
into your Sons system at home. So this is a
really cool speaker that you can keep on your desk
in your office or in your kids room, and then
when you head out to the beach or on a vacation,
you can take this Sonos Rome. So I'll definitely be
getting this speaker. It's one hundred and sixty nine dollars.
It's April twentieth when it's available, and I got to say,
(20:44):
even though I haven't tested it, I have very high
hopes because I bought the sons Move during the pandemic
and this is kind of their big, big portable speaker
and it does the same thing pretty much as the Rome,
except it's bigger, so it has Bluetooth, also connects to
your speakers. It comes with the wireless charging DOC or actually, yeah,
(21:05):
I guess it is wireless. I mean you plug it in,
but it's a DOC and I love it. I love, love,
love the Move. Every time we're outside in the patio,
you know, with friends, family, whatever. I mean, you know,
far and few between these days, but you know, during
the pandemic, just hanging out outside in the backyard, which
we did a lot, we would just take out the
Move and it was so amazing because I used to
(21:26):
have a Sonos plugged in in the backyard and of
course when it rained, I'd remember to like bring it inside.
The speaker got all beat up because it's just being outside.
But the move it's like, oh brilliant. You just bring
it outside when you need it, and you move it
back inside when you don't.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yes, that's why it's called the move anyway. So that's
four hundred dollars. But this Sono's Rome is kind of
the same thing for one hundred and sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And yes, this is expensive.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
As far as Bluetooth speakers go, but if you have
a Sonos system at home, it is well worth it.
And clearly you're spending a little bit more than the
average bear on your speakers at home anyway, if you
have a Sonos and so this is going to be
a price point that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Let's see what features does this have. It's got a
feature called Soundswap, where you can press and play uh
hold the play pause button on the speaker to switch
the music to the nearest speaker on your Sonos system,
making it easy to move music from room to room.
That's kind of kind of cool. It also has unlock.
It unlocks Bluetooth streaming for your whole system, so if
you're streaming Bluetooth to this Move or the Rome rather,
(22:30):
then you can expand that exact same Bluetooth stream to
all of your speakers, something I don't think has been
available yet on Maybe I could do that with the Move.
I don't know, I've never tried it. To me, I
would just use airplay anyway. But you know if you're
using Bluetooth that you know it's good for Android as well.
Uh you know you know that Sonos works with over
one hundred streaming services. I call them the Switzerland of
(22:51):
streaming because it just works with everything on mine. I've
got like Apple Music linked up, I've got iHeartRadio linked up.
I've got Serious XM linked up, I've got YouTube music
link up. I think that's it and I just love it.
I can't say enough for for Sonos. It's IP sixty
seven resistant, so dust and waterproof, which is really cool
(23:12):
for bringing it to the beach if you live near
one of those, or camping or whatever. Now here's how
it charges. It has a custom magnetic wireless charger from
Sonos that is sold separately. So that to me means well,
this could have been two hundred dollars if they kept
it in the box. But they make you purchase that later.
But it works with any Chi wireless charger, and then
also it has a USBC cable in the box. Would
(23:35):
have been nice if they had this on a you know,
if the magnetic wireless charger came with it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They wanted that price point, and not everyone wants the
wireless charging anyway, so you know, they figured make the
price a little bit more appealing and you know, leave
some things out of the box again. April twentieth, one
hundred and sixty nine dollars the sons Roam. If you
have a Sonos system and you know you're eyeing that move.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But it was just a little bit too pricey.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I think the rom is gonna be a really, really
exciting addition to the sound system.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are right?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Next question? Paul says, Hey, Rich, please help. With all
the technology out there, I still can't figure out how
to send a video that's more than five seconds long
in a text. I have the one plus seventy Android.
Are there any ways to send a video that's longer
than a few seconds in a text? I'm familiar with dropbox,
but I'd rather insert it in a text. Are there
(24:31):
any androids out there that will do that. Thank you, Rich.
I love your segments. Every morning, Paul sent outlook for Android.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Here's the thing, SMS and video does not mix. So
when standard texting was invented, it just didn't have the
idea of sending a video through that little tiny pipeline.
And so, yes, you can send a video through text,
but it's gonna look like horrible garbage on the other side.
(25:00):
And I remember my mom sent me a text with
some video of snow that happened in her backyard, and
it was just so sad watching it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Because she's on an Android.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I get her a Google Pixel every maybe every other year,
and she loves it. She doesn't want to switch to iPhone,
so I keep her on the Pixel and she really
enjoys it and she loves her pictures. And it's simple
and it works. I can lock down the home screen.
She you know, she doesn't use a lot of apps.
But you know, she went to send me this video
a couple years ago and it was just so terrible,
and I felt I was just so sad because I
(25:31):
was like, oh, here's my mom. She did this whole
thing and it just looks like garbled. You know, it's
so garbled, So Paul, that's what you're experiencing. And you
know on I message, you know anyone iphoned iPhone videos
look amazing because guess what Apple is sort of bypassing
the standard text messaging even though it seems like it's
a text message, it's going through their proprietary I message system.
(25:53):
On Android, we have that in a way, but not
necessarily supported everywhere. So a couple things you do. Number one,
if you do have if you're on A one plus,
I think their standard messaging app is Google Messages, so
I would check to see if you're using that, and
then it depends on your carrier. I think all of
(26:15):
them at this point have instituted what's called chat, which
is RCS. I know it gets a little complicated, but
basically all the.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Maw do I explain this.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
There is a standard for text messaging, next generation text
messaging that does support large videos, large files. It's called RCS,
and you can go into your messenger. I think they
renamed it chat, and so you can go into your
Messenger settings and make sure that chat is turned on.
But that's only for sending it to another person that
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is also using the Google Messages app. And also has
chat turned on, which means ninety nine percent of the
time it's probably not gonna work in a beautiful way.
So where does that leave me? If you can do
all that, great, The other way to do it is just, honestly,
you got to get them to download an app to
send videos, which I would recommend either Facebook, Messenger, or
(27:10):
you can use something like Telegram, but or WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I mean, I would.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Probably just get you know, whoever you're texting this back
and forth with. I would get them to you know,
or use you know, something like Instagram. I mean, it's
just you gotta use something to just, you know, make
life a little bit easier. The whole chat thing, you know,
the the rcs and the and the sms, it's just
it's just too like on it's too unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The person on the other end may have an iPhone,
they may have an Android that they're not using the
same app for, so it's just much easier to just say, hey,
look like I did with my family, we're all on Telegram. Look,
let's all just get on Telegram and this is how
we chat from now on. And it is worked out beautifully.
It has been amazing and we have this nice long
(27:57):
chat that goes on forever and all in there my
whole family. It's amazing and it just works, and we
send pictures, we send videos, we send texts, we send jokes,
We chat in the morning and the night, all day,
and it's just it's brilliant. So, Paul, that's what I'd
recommend until the world figures out a cross platform way
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of getting iPhones, androids, androids and androids all to talk
beautifully with SMS and send those large files.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Until then, I think an app is your best bet.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Now, real quick, if you just want to send one file,
like if this is just a one time thing and
you just need to send a large file, I would
just use something like a dropbox or a Google Drive.
Put it in there, generate a one time link, and
then send it off that way. One other way you
can do it is if you're on an Android and
you're using Google Photos, there's a way to just generate
(28:48):
a link for a video file. Just generate that link,
send that link off, and boom, they'll get the nice,
high quality video file. All right, next story here, I'm
sure you've noticed that gas prices are right near you,
So I did a segment where I talked about you know,
apps to find the best gas prices, and I hope.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I didn't do this last week? Did I? No?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I didn't, so uh, you know, I looked at gas Buddy,
which is the most popular one, which it's okay, probably
the most used, but the one that I actually kind
of like is called gas Guru. And the reason I
like this is because if you have an iPhone, you
can set up a series shortcut to use gas Guru
to find the cheapest gas near you in seconds. So
(29:29):
you download this gas Guru app, you scroll all the
way down and it says add to Siri. You hit
that button and then you come up with a passphrase
like a serie shortcut phrase, I use cheap gas. And
then anytime you say h Siri, cheap gas, boom, this
app opens up, It shows you the cheapest gas, you navigate,
(29:50):
and you get on with life. And so I think
it's really cool. In fact, after you have this app installed,
every couple of days or every day, I don't know,
you'll see just like a suggested series shortcut on your
you know notifications that says, you know, find cheap gas.
So you tap it and it brings you in there,
so I really enjoy it. I've just been enjoying watching
(30:11):
the gas prices go up and up and up, because
I posted this picture to my Facebook page a couple
of weeks ago about gas that was four dollars and
ninety nine cents, and people went nuts, saying.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Rich, how dare you? This is a lie? Gas is
not that expensive? And sure enough gas has slowly but
surely crept up in price.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And I just keep laughing every time I see gas
prices getting more and more expensive, because yeah, I'm paying
them too. But the reality is I knew this was happening.
I mean, that's why I posted that picture. So gas
prices in California. You know, It's like, let's see so
gas buddy. The thing I like about that, Oh I
deleted already, but the gas guru anyway. So the point is,
(30:52):
download one of these apps if you want to find
cheap gas and.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Go for it. All right, let's get to the next question. Rich.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
My wife and I love your reports. They're always destination
viewing for both of us.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Wow, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We do not presently have a password manager app, and
I wonder if you had a few that you could recommend,
thank you, and.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Stay safe, Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I think I talked about this on a previous show,
but I will be honest. I was up in Santa
Barbara to get a preview of the password management app
called Bitwarden, and now a couple of weeks ago when
I talked on the podcast about how last Pass is
going to start basically charging if you want the full
feature set for their password manager on March sixteenth, I believe,
(31:43):
and so I was talking about alternatives and I mentioned
things like, you know, you can still continue with last Pass,
just pay a little bit to get all your features.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I talked about.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Dash Lane one password, and a lot of people tweeted
me and said, hey, don't forget about bitwarden Bitwarden Bitwarden,
which I'd never heard of, and so sure enough I
looked into it and it has some really great features
for free. And so if you don't have a password
manager app and you're looking for something that is going
to continue to be free. And I just talked to
the CEO and I said, are you going to charge
(32:14):
when you know people sign up? He said, no, this
is We're going to be free. And so there are
some things you don't get with free but honestly, for
a majority of people, it's not going to be that
big of a deal. The one thing that you probably
that you might want with the free version that you
don't get is passwords sharing. So if you want to
be able to share passwords with a you know, a
(32:35):
family member, you would have to upgrade. And now, by
the way, upgrading is like ten dollars a year or
like I think it's forty for the family plan. Whatever
it is. It's very it's not that expensive. But you
can totally get by with their free version. I was
looking at it yesterday. It's it looks great. I mean,
it really does so Bitwarden, I would recommend Joe. You
mentioned a password manager app, which I always tell people
(32:58):
if you're only in the Google ecosystm them, or if
you're only an Apple, just use the built in Apple.
It has an iCloud keychain, you can just use that.
Or if you're on Android and Google it's I think
they call it smart Password. Let's see what do they
call They just call it Google Password Manager. So if
(33:19):
you're on you know, if you use Chrome and use
an Android, just use Google Password Manager and that can
store all your stuff for free, and it's it's super easy,
and it's you know, as long as you have a
good password on your Google account, then you have a
good you know, password manager there. But I would use
one of these third party services like a bit warden,
a dash lane or last pass or a one password.
(33:40):
If you use various devices like a Mac computer and
an Android phone, or an Android phone and a PC.
You know, that way you can store these things across
all your devices. And that's the functionality that last Pass
used to have. But they are going to start charging
for you have to choose do you want your passwords
available on just mobile devices or on just you know,
(34:01):
you have to choose one type of device, which is
gonna be tough for a lot of people, because the
average person is creating a password on their phone or
their desktop and then using it on their phone or
desktop like swapping vice versa. Right, And so that's the
functionality they identified that would make it, you know, push
people to upgrade. Good question, Joe, thanks a lot, all right,
(34:22):
Speaking of passwords, Netflix is beginning to crack down on
passwords sharing outside your household. The streamable dot com with
a big, big story here. They really, they really blew
the lid off of this one. Netflix subscribers are starting
to see a screen that says, if you don't live
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with the owner of this account, you need your own
account to keep watching, and then in order to continue,
you have to verify the account with an email or
text code or create a new account with a thirty
day free trial. Now, if you're friends with the person
that you are sharing your password with, I mean theoretically,
you know you would, you would call them up and say, hey,
(35:04):
I just got a one time password, can you share
that with me? But Netflix knows that that's going to
be just annoying enough to push a percentage of people
into getting their own accounts, because let's be honest, if
your friends and family are on your account, they're streaming
at all different times and places, and it may not
be convenient to call you up and get that code
from you every single time. Plus it's gonna get annoying. So,
(35:27):
you know, depending on how many times Netflix pushes this
out there, you know, is it every time they log
in and here's how they're doing this, you know, or
we don't know actually how they're doing it. I'm sure
they're using some algorithm to figure this out. But the
easiest would be that I'm in California and let's say
I share my password theoretically with a family member that
lives in New Jersey, and so Netflix goes, Okay, we
(35:49):
see that you're logging in from California, and then we
just saw this log in from New Jersey from a
different device.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Hmm, We're gonna give that person New.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Jersey a little prompt that says, hey, you gotta aren't paying,
or you know, get your own password, or get this
one time thing. That's pretty easy. Now, you might say, well, rich,
I travel all the time. How are they gonna know
if I'm traveling again? This is why they use an
algorithm to kind of figure things out. They notice that
your iPad primarily checks Netflix in California, but then all
of a sudden it travels to Colorado and their algorithm
(36:20):
allows for that. Or they give you that one time
code and you get it to your phone and your
phone's right nearby and you pop it in and says.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Okay, just making sure. So they're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know, this is a test, and they're gonna try
this in various ways. But the reality is it's coming.
It's been a long time coming. Netflix has been very
generous with password sharing, and clearly they've gotten to that
point again that little vice gript where they're just just turning.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It a little bit, a little bit, just squeeze a little.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Bit, and look, we're gonna see this as a theme
over and over with these companies. They have been very
generous in sharing and letting people do this as they grow.
But as these companies get bigger and they say, look,
you know what, you know, it used to be novel
that you had a Netflix account, but now it's not
(37:08):
so novel, Like this is pretty much the way of
the future.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And so it was nice that you share it with.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Your mom and your grandma and your sister and your
you know, your cousin and also your roommate from college.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
But at this point they got.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
To pay, Like it's maybe they were watching it for
Queen's Gambit at one point, or like one show that
was popular, and you know, now it's like there, this
is an entirety of their streaming consumption, and so yeah,
they can pay the eight ninety nine to get their
own their own account, or the thirteen ninety nine or
in my case, seventeen ninety nine premium plan that I
pay for which gets you four K, so which I
(37:45):
probably don't need. But anyway, be aware if you see
it right now. According to the streamable, it's only seeing
the people are only seeing the test on TV devices,
so that could be part of it. But anyway, just
something to know and something to be aware of it.
Jerry writes in Hey, Rich, you discussed fall detection on
(38:08):
the last podcast. I purchased the Apple Watch with this
feature immediately when it became available in twenty seventeen. My
wife suffers from extreme tonightis and one of the effects
of this is dizziness. The bouts of this can come
on quickly without any warning. At times, the dizziness is
so bad she just to hold on to a poll
or table to keep from falling O. The feature has
(38:31):
interceded two times after my wife fell while walking the neighborhood.
One time she was unconscious, the other time she was
severely dazed. Thankfully, a neighbor came out and saw my
wife both times after not receiving a response from her.
The neighbor is an Apple Watch is an Apple user
and realized what was occurring and let the watch complete
(38:51):
its task. It contacted our local nine one one and
they dispatched rescue squad to her location. It also contacted
me with a text message. This occurred within seven minutes
of her fall, and the EMTs were on scene within
fifteen Amazing. The app you discussed it was the best
by app seems to add a couple of layers to
this process, which I feel would delay the responses. Plus,
(39:13):
why pay for something that came with the investment you've
already made for Apple devices. You are correct, besides crash
detection with Google Pixel, I am a longtime pixel slash
Nexus user. We need fall detection of the caliber that
Apple offers. Have a great day, Stay safe, Jerry. Yeah, Jerry, Well,
I hate to hear that your wife suffers from this,
(39:35):
but I'm glad she's okay, And it is scary that
that happens.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
If you didn't listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What Jerry's referring to is I was on a run
and I tripped, and it was basically one of those
trips that if I landed on the ground, it would
have been bad, and yeah, the Apple Watch hopefully would
have sprung into action. I was with my son and
he was referring to the fact that I was talking
about this best spy app they have now called Lively
(40:02):
that taps into the API, the API that Apple Watch
has written for other companies to allow them to take
advantage of the fault detection as well. I was not
aware that Apple had done that, which is great, and
so Jerry, I agree. I think that it does add
a different layer to things, and I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
But at the same time, I.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Still think it's good to have options, and I'm sure
that that Best Buy solution, you know, even though they're
doing a thing where I guess they use an agent
to contact you first to make sure you're okay. Maybe
there's an option inside the app to go directly to
nine will one.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I haven't tested that app, so I don't really know.
It's brand new, but I agree. I mean, time is
of the essence in these situations. So yeah, having that
Apple Watch native support is probably the best. But I
would assume that these companies are pretty smart and they
think about that and they say, you know, maybe they're
calling someone I don't know. I mean, I think I
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see both sides of this. I think it's good to
have options, and you know who knows, maybe someone will
come up with a smarter way than what Apple does,
and you know, maybe we'll come up with the way
where you you know, as soon as you start a workout,
it's kind of like on guard and it's like, okay,
if we if we notice a fall, we're going to
contact immediately.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
We're not even gonna wait that sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So I don't know, but I think that it's good
to have options. I think it's good that we have
systems like this, and I think they're only going to
get better. I mean, like you said, it first became
available in twenty seventeen, which sounds like a long time.
At this point, it's four years. I can't believe it's
been that long. But people are still learning about it.
And with the crash detection on the Google Pixel, you know,
(41:41):
it's something that not everyone knows. And I called for
Samsung to do something similar on their phone, and I
call for Fitbit to do something similar on their watches.
So we need more and more of this stuff, and
I think it's going to happen more, more and more.
But again, in some aspects, we're very much just at
the beginning of all of this, and so I love
that we have these options. I think Best Buy is
(42:03):
just one more option to have. And I'm glad that
this has come into handy with your wife twice.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I hope it.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Doesn't have to work again, but sounds like it's an
ongoing thing, and it's good that she has this Apple
Watch and in your case, it's a great thing, and
you know anyway, so I'm glad that you like the idea.
I'm glad you like the Apple Watch if it's working
for you to stick with it. But again, I like
the idea that we have more options for people, and
I hope that the options are even more generous in
(42:34):
the future. And just we get we see more and
more of these and no matter what you're using, whether
you're just carrying a phone or a watch, or even
in cars, we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
More crash detection.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So it's a really good thing that tet technology is
enabling this stuff. All right, let's talk about Twitter. This
is kind of a small story, but it's interesting and Twitter.
The number one complaint I see on Twitter is you know,
the tech folks talk about Twitter compression and even on Instagram,
(43:04):
same thing. It's like, ah, compressed my video, It compressed
my picture and it looks like garbage. And so often
tech reviewers are sharing pictures from new phones and stuff,
new cameras on there, and you just can't get an
idea of how good it is. Because Twitter takes your
image and it compresses it down so that it's cheap
for them to store it and it's less expensive to
(43:26):
send out, and you know, they can send it out quicker.
Maybe they keep the original somewhere I don't know, probably,
but when they're serving it up to you on Twitter
on your timeline, they're not serving up a high quality,
high resolution picture because you know, that's cost too much
money over and over to send it out to so
many people. So Twitter for iOS is testing a new
(43:48):
design and four K support. This is according to nine
to five MAC.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
So two things.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Number one, when you look at pictures in the timeline,
they're no longer going to crop them.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
There was some controversy about how Twitter was applying cropping
to pictures and apparently their computers were not doing the
best job at that, and now they're going to show
the entire image and so now that's going to be
the number one change. The other change is that they're
testing four K image uploads, which means when you look
(44:20):
at these pictures, they're going to have a better resolution
than ever before, which means you know, if you're looking
at details on things, you can zoom in and see them.
So when you're sharing pictures on Twitter, you should be
aware of this because you know, often when we share pictures,
there could be some personal information lurking in those pictures
if you zoomed in, and so just be aware that, yeah,
(44:40):
people might be able to see more in your pictures
than ever before. And on the flip side, it's a
cool thing because if you're sharing a beautiful picture of
a beach or you know, for me, I would share
a picture of like a you know, some kind of
image from a new smartphone, it's cool that you can
zoom in and see just how clear that image is.
So if you want, if you're in this test, this
is on Iowa only, you can go into Twitter settings,
(45:03):
then in data usage, choose the high quality option. Now
there is a high quality option already in those Twitter settings,
but unless you specifically see the word four K, you're
not part of that test. You can you can always
choose between high quality and kind of basic, but now
it will specifically say four K. If you see that
in your settings, then you are part of the test
and you'll see four K images, which I think is
(45:24):
really cool. The other thing is that this is only
images right now, nothing about video. So maybe four K
video will come along in the future, but right now,
this is just for images. And another note, how wild
is it that we've come so long with Twitter? I
remember the days when Twitter did not even support images.
Used to use a service, a third party service to
(45:46):
upload your picture. It was like called twit pick or
all these other ones where you'd actually upload your picture
there and then you would send out a link to
that picture on Twitter. And so we've come a long way.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Next question from Let's see car Let's see who is
this from? This is from Carol uh Dear Rich. Is
this just a come on to get us to give
Google information? Or has someone really compromised my passwords? I
change them constantly for this reason, and I do not
(46:25):
trust the people at Google to give them any access
to any of my passwords. Have you seen this before
and what would you do about it? I'm a seventy
eight year old grandma. I'm a target for scam. Sorry
to bother you. But I thought maybe others might have
gotten this email as well. I would appreciate any help. Sincerely,
Carol in Chesterfield, Missouri, and she sent along an email
(46:47):
that says subject take action to secure your compromise passwords.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
It says Google has.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Found some of your passwords online. Anyone who finds them
can access your accounts. Your Google account is still secure.
This leak came from somewhere else on the web. You
can secure your saved passwords now using password manager take
action and smartly. They also give a direct link that
says you can also go directly to my account Google
dot com slash security check up. And this kind of
(47:15):
goes into what I was speaking about earlier about Google
storing your passwords. And I'll give you an example of
this that actually came in handy.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
So my mom a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Was like, I can't find my password to my work email.
And I said, oh, I bet you. I stored it
in Google Chrome for you because I don't, like I said,
I don't use a separate password manager for her. Maybe
I didn't say that, but I use I do store
some of her passwords in Google Chrome, and so I said,
go into Chrome press the three little dots, then press settings,
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then go to autofill and click passwords, and you'll see
a list of.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
A whole bunch of accounts.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
And she said, oh, yeah, I do see my account there,
but all I see your little dots. And I said, oh,
pressed the little icon that looks like an eye, and
you will have to type in your password to reveal that.
And once you reveal that, boom, there is your password.
And I said, press the copy password button and you
(48:16):
can copy and paste that into the website. She said, Oh,
my gosh, you're a genius. She said, I didn't even
know that Google saves my passwords. And you may not
know this either, but you'll you will notice if you
log into a website and Google sometimes says, hey, would
you like us to save this password? And sometimes it
happens so fast you might not even notice it. And Carol,
(48:38):
that's exactly what happens here. You logged into a website
and that little prompt came up. They said would you
like us to save your password? And you said yes,
And now these passwords are stored in Google. On Chrome
or Google, you can go to passwords. I think you
can go to passwords dot Google dot com to also
see them. And what they're doing is they're checking those
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passwords against open databases that they find on the web
with exposed passwords, and if they find one of your
passwords on there, they're going to send you this alert.
So this is not a scam. It's actually real. And
in fact, because they found this, I would I would
go in and look at those passwords and see which
ones are compromised and I would change those. So I
(49:24):
would go to passwords dot Google dot com and check
and see what passwords are. If you go to Google
password check up, it will tell you which ones are
compromised and.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Yeah, something that you should do. Oops. So anyway, that
is not a scam. It's real. It's legit.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
And I know you don't trust Google with your passwords,
but honestly, Carol, I would trust them more than a
lot of people with my passwords, better than having them
out in the open web, which it sounds like one
of your passwords made it there. How does a password
make it to the open Web. Well, a site gets compromised,
and so what happens is when a site gets hacked,
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all those passwords from that website in many cases are
exposed on the open Web, and what happens is you
get those passwords out there and next thing you know,
these hackers try them on other websites and with your credentials.
So you definitely don't want those floating around and you
definitely don't want to use a compromised password continually.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
So change those passwords. And good question.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
I'm glad you're on the lookout for this kind of stuff.
And yeah, so there you have it. All right, one
more question before we go. Good morning, Rich. I am
looking for facial recognition technology to support my genealogical research
identifying old photographs, at least allowing me to group photographs
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of the same person. I heard your interview at Jennifer
Jones Lee on KFI about animating old photographs, and I
was wondering if you have any ideas. I've performed several
searches and have not found anything at a consumer level
that is affordable. Most are for police and security, which
does not meet my simple requirements. I am wondering if
you have any ideas. Thank you for your time, Carl. Well, Carl,
(51:13):
I do have an idea, and it's so simple it's
going to be mind boggling and here's the thing. So
often we always look for these you know, you probably
typed in facial recognition for photographs or something, and it
probably came up with all these high end solutions, like
you said, for law enforcement or whatever.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
But here's the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Just toss these photos into Google Photos and boom, let
it do its thing and it will find all the
people in those photos with the same faces. So easy, right,
And so I love this feature in Google Photos. They
are the best. Apple also has this feature built into
their Photos program.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I think Google is pretty good, and I think it's
just a little bit easier, and it's free and it's simple,
and you can use it on the web. That's what
I would do. In fact, I'll let you take it
one step further. When I digitized a bunch of old
videos from when I was a kid, it will even
search for faces inside those videos, which is just seriously,
seriously cool. So back in the day, you know, you
(52:19):
record a home video that was like two hours long,
not like today where we take these short clips and
Google just goes through and all the faces in that
photo in that video are now also logged. So if
you have you know Uncle Adam a picture of Uncle
Adam boom. It will also identify Uncle Adam in the
videos that you upload. So I think Google Photos is
(52:40):
the simplest way to do it. I think it's an
amazing way to do it. It's free, it's cheap, well it's
free and or cheap depending on how many pictures you have.
It's simple, it's easy, it's available, and not much that
you have to do to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
So great, great question there, Carl. Good question to answer
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Everyone's going wild over NFTs. Netflix cracks down on sharing,
using Siri to find the best gas prices. Plus your
tech questions answered, What's going on? I'm Rich Tomorrow and
this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
(00:32):
It's also the place where I answer the questions you
send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You may also find me on.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Other stations around the US. So the company that owns
KTLA also has like one hundred something stations across the nation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So I get a lot of emails.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
These days or texts and tweets or whatever from people saying, oh,
I saw you in Hawaii, I saw you in New Mexico,
saw you in.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I don't know wherever. So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So if you found me in one of those places,
thank you for tuning in and listening. And what a
week it's been in Los Angeles, because well, it's snowed
in my backyard. In my backyard, there was well maybe
it wasn't snow, but it was definitely something that resembled snow,
and I guess it was technically hal or. Someone told
(01:28):
me it was something called gropple. I don't know. But
the point is when your kid is in the other
room distance learning, and you're in your office and you
hear wild screaming and you run over there to see
what happened, and you'll look outside the back door and
it's just totally a winter wonderland. I couldn't believe it.
It was pretty awesome. So I don't think I've ever
(01:49):
seen that happen in Los Angeles ever, now, given we
have the mountains here, and so of course if you're
in the mountains, they're very familiar with snow and hail
and sleet and all that stuff. But when you just
of in like La proper like I do, and it's
coming down in your backyard, that's pretty wild. So I
got a cool video on my Instagram of me kind
of picking up whatever this is.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Whatever this was, you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Know, snow, hail, sleet, gropple, whatever it was. I picked
it up and it felt pretty amazing for a minute.
And then, by the way, it all melted in about
a half an hour to an hour afterwards, So that
generally happens. But it's also been raining in La so
it's been kind of wild weather. Here in Los Angeles
and probably across the nation. I know, you know, there's
(02:31):
been a snowstorms and this and that, so hopefully you're
good where you are. But let's get to the first
item of business here. Tea Mobile is stepping up targeting advertising.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
This is the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They first noticed this, but they sent an email or
I guess they just updated their privacy policy. I don't
know how they found this, but they said, starting April
twenty sixth, Tea Mobile subscribers will basically have whatever they
do on their phone tracked by Team Mobile. And I mean,
I guess that's always been going on, but now they're
going to use that information to target advertising. So they're
(03:06):
not just you know, these companies don't just overtly share
your information. But what they do is they build a database.
So let's say I'm an advertiser and I want to
sell you socks, and so I go on to the
T mobile, you know, advertising back end, and I say,
I want to target everyone who has looked up socks
or any sort of you know, undergarments in the last
(03:28):
six months, and boom, now you see my ad inserted
on any of those pages or wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
However, T Mobile does ads. I don't know, but you know,
so you would see my ad in all those places.
So historically I guess they didn't really do this, but
you know, the reality is TEA Mobile said, you know,
we've heard they told the Wall Street Journal, We've heard
many say they prefer more relevant ads. So we're defaulting
to this setting. So this is a default for sixty
(03:57):
million people. And what does that do?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That just turns off on a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's like a money spigot that T Mobile is turning
on because guess what, no matter what you use, unless
you're on a VPN, you know, if you're incognito mode
or you know, whatever browser you're using, pretty much a
lot of these times, you're still your ISP still gets
to see what you're doing. And so a T Mobile
in this case is the ISP Internet service provider. They're
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the ones that actually serve up the website on the
back end using their data and your data plan if
you're not on your WiFi, and so they see kind
of where you're going and they say, okay, this person
likes scooters, they like tropical vacations, they like socks. And
so now when those companies come to target them boom.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They can do that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So if you don't like this idea, you can actually
opt out, and the way you do it is that
you go into the T mobile app, or you can
go there's a sprint way to opt out and a
metro way to opt out. I put the instructions for
T Mobile. I'll put them in the in the notes
because I shared this street Journal article. But they're apparently paywalled,
(05:04):
so you can't really just see these instructions that they
put on there. But I'll put the instructions. T Mobile
actually put out a YouTube video with instructions on how
to do it. So if you want to opt out,
I'm kind of like one of those people that I
would rather see an ad that's targeted than not, I guess,
but I also see why you know this is I
call these those follow me ads, the ads that just
follow you from place to place to place. So a
(05:27):
lot of this stuff, well this may not be that,
but anyway, the point is, you know, if you don't
like your information sliced and diced and shared then or targeted,
then you probably want to opt out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
T Mobile does say that your your personal identity is
not linked to the data that you have. Right, so
all your they don't know you as like Rich DeMuro
that likes socks. It's just this person likes socks, and
so you should target your ads towards this person. But
the reality is, we know, over and over, I've heard
(05:58):
this and seen this from so many people that they
don't just use one database per se. A lot of
times these very advanced advertising systems will merge various databases.
So just because T Mobile doesn't hand over your ID,
believe me, there's other ways for them to get it.
So at the end of the day, they pretty much
know everything they need to know about you. All right,
(06:23):
let's get to the first Uh is this a question?
This looks like some feedback? All right, hey, Rich, just
some simple feedback regarding your product recommendations. The Apple home
Pod Mini, recommended so highly, has turned out to be
a bust. The sound quality pales in comparison to the
JBL Flip five. The Mini has become unreliable by not
responding to touch or voice command for Siri.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
We're trying to return the unit, but Apple insists it's
inspected by their Genius bar. First, I previously purchased the
JBL Flip five speaker for our sun It has rechargeable batteries,
it's completely portable, the volume is better. Let's see on
circles around the Apple home Pod Mini, all for the
same price.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Also, the Wise products are starting out to be a
bust too. If you want further details, let me know.
The cameras and sensors keep going offline. The batteries don't last.
When I replace the batteries, the sensors and motion sensors
still state the batteries need replacement. I can't trust Wise
as a security product because of these issues. Jim in
Orange County, Well, Jim, uh yeah, Well look, I mean
(07:26):
here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And I say this over and over.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Just because I say to get something does not mean
that it is the end all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You just go out and run out and buy it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Like I am just one opinion in a sea of
many opinions, and with the Internet, there are so many
opinions out there. So my opinion is that the old
Apple HomePod Mini is amazing, and I still think it's amazing,
And yeah, are there things that can be improved, of course,
like any first generation product or any product in general,
but for the ninety nine dollars that I you see
(07:58):
this thing as I think it's amazing as an iPhone companion.
And yes, the JBL Flip five is a totally different product.
That's a wireless, portable Bluetooth speaker. So that's that's something
that's totally different than what the HomePod Mini is. The
HomePod Mini is, you know, a smart home device. It
connects you to the Apple ecosystem. It sounds good for
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the size. Yes, you have to keep it plugged into
the wall, but that's what it is. It's a it's
part of a you can group them, which I don't
believe you could do with the Flip five. So you know,
the reality is if it didn't work out for you,
I'm totally fine with that. Like clearly I'm O for
two with my recommendations for you, but it doesn't mean
that they are bad recommendations. I've gotten many emails from
people saying how impressed they are with the HomePod Mini.
(08:40):
I personally still think it's amazing. I've bought them for
my sister. She thinks it's amazing. The wisecam I mean,
I haven't gotten a lot of negative feedback about the Wyscam.
In fact, I would say ninety nine percent of tech
reviewers love the wise products, myself included. And so you know,
specifically with the outdoor cam, yes, the battery does run down.
(09:02):
It could run down very fast depending on how often
it's being activated. Now, I will tell you that I
have been testing a device from Wasserman It's called or
sorry Wasserstein Wasserstein Home and this has been amazing for
the wise Cam outdoor. It is fantastic. I'm trying to
(09:24):
get it into a segment on KTLA, but it's just
one of these things where I can't do a full
segment on this thing. But it's really cool and I
love it, so I just have to, you know, work
it into like a roundup or something. But I will
be featuring it because I just think it really extends
the use of this outdoor camera. And it's the Wasserstein
solar panel and you plug it into the Wisecam outdoor
(09:48):
and you put it in a sunny spot and boom,
you never have to charge your wys cam ever. Again,
I've been using this now for probably a month and
I have not had to charge my camera at all.
And I will tell you right now, my backyard camera
is at one hundred percent and it's been there for month,
for a month now, and so I really really like
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this thing. I think for thirty six ninety nine, normally
forty five. It's on sale right now. Apparently it is
just one of those things that is like a no brainer.
And if you look around your neighborhood, this is not
a new idea. You see a lot of these things.
Like it's basically a flat panel that you aim on
your roof towards the sky. It has it must have
some sort of battery inside, because when I first got it,
(10:30):
it didn't work. I told the company, I said, this
thing doesn't even work, and they said, well, you have
to keep it out in the sun for ten hours
charge your Okay, So you keep it out in the
sun for ten hours without plugging it into the camera,
then you charge your camera fully to one hundred percent,
and then you plug it in, You keep it in
the sun, and boom, your camera will stay one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
At least that's been my experience. I'll link this up
in the.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Notes, but I got to say that really changed the
game for me with this wisecamout door and So, Jim,
as much as I know you don't trust wise, I
think they are a fantastic products. The thing that I've
gotten the feedback on the most has been the shipping
and kind of like people ordering things and it's taken
a while to get But other than that, I mean,
the actual cameras are are pretty phenomenal for the price
(11:12):
that these things charge. So Jim, thanks for the feedback.
I always welcome feedback, good or bad, and believe me,
I get a lot of it. And you know, it's
it's it's all good, all right. So everyone is going
wild over these things called NFTs, and it's just it's
such like it's one of these things where it's so
weird how you see something once and all of a sudden,
(11:34):
it's just like a flood. It's like it arrives. Like
everything is now referencing an NFT on the internet.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
So what is an NFT. I broke it down.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I talked to someone that's an expert and I, you know,
try to explain this on KTLA in my segment and
it's really tough because I don't even really understand it.
But the reality is NFT stands for non fungible Token
and if you want to think of these in this
simplest terms, it's basically a collectible like a beanie baby
(12:04):
or a baseball card, but it only exists online. And
so a lot of these things that people have been
selling have been, you know, a piece of digital art
or you can do anything as an NFT anything like
and it doesn't have to be digital. But for the
terms of me explaining this, I will keep it digital.
But theoretically you could extend it to something that's physical
(12:24):
as well. But let's say you have the Mona Lisa.
There are many Mona Lisa paintings or recreations around the world,
you know, copies, but there's only one. So that one
Mona Lisa is is a collectible. It's a valuable item
that is non fungible. Right, you can't make another one
of them, but a copy if you put on a
T shirt that's fungible, it's like, you know, you can
(12:45):
make a million of them. So that's kind of the
base thing, is that there can only be one and
then one. Once you have this one thing, you sell
it and it's it's a token and it's part of
the blockchain, and so you say this is a sign
to you, and so it really comes down to scarcity.
So a couple examples. I gave a rare original arcade game,
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you know, like an arcade console is non fungible, you
can't make another one. So when I buy that, it's
valuable because it's like a pac Man original in my
house right. A gaming chip from a casino non fungible.
That's let's say the casino is gone, like it's imploded
or whatever. You know, that's non fungible because it's a
collector's item. A twenty dollars bill, Now this is interesting.
A twenty dollars bill is fungible and non fungible. So
(13:31):
it's fungible because if I lent you twenty dollars and
you paid me back, I wouldn't I wouldn't expect to
get the same exact twenty dollars bill back that I
gave you, So that means it's fungible. But let's say
I did expect it back, because every twenty dollars bill
has a serial number on it that's non fungible. Like
if I was like, no, you got to give me
the exact same twenty back in a week, which nobody
(13:52):
would ever say that would be non fungible. So if
you understand the difference between fungible and non fungible, you
sort of understand NFTs.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
People have been spending a lot of money on these NFTs.
That's because you buy them with cryptocurrency, and a lot
of people have these big cryptocurrency balances because that's gone up.
Open c is one of the big online marketplaces for NFTs,
and you know, some people are using them as an investment.
Some people are using them as like, oh, this is
really cool, like the Kings of Leon, you know, put
(14:21):
an album out as an NFT.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You buy it, it's yours, and you know you love.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It because it's a collectible and it's like the first
time they've done it, and it's really cool to you.
But other people are just speculating. Let's see the other
thing to know about NFTs, And this is what I
thought was the most interesting part of n fts compared
to say a let's say you bought a one of
a kind painting in real life from someone, right, Well,
(14:45):
when you go to sell that, you have to have
some sort of leather letter of authenticity or you know,
an auction house would verify that that's a unique item.
But with NFTs, what's really interesting is that they are
ownership and authenticity is public and provable thanks to the blockchain.
And that's the same blockchain that powers cryptocurrency. It's the
(15:06):
same idea that cryptocurrency is all. You know, it's all verifiable, right,
Like what you own is verified by Math.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You don't have to go to Chase Bank and say, hey,
do I have a one hundred dollars in cryptocurrency? No,
like anyone can verify through Math that you own that
money and it's yours and you can transfer it to
someone else. Same thing with NFTs. So I don't know
if I'm doing a good job of explaining this. Hopefully
it makes a little sense and you get a little
idea of what people are going wild over. But the
(15:34):
easiest way to think about it is it's just something
that exists in digital form and you buy it with bitcoin,
and it's a collector's item and it's one of a kind,
and even though it could be replicated, you the original
is verifiable thanks to that blockchain technology.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Richard, good morning. Have you ever reviewed the photostick mobile
or Infinite Cloud, which is a better bite, do you
recommend something else? Just want to copy photos to free
up space, to take up more or to take more?
Thanks in Advanced Richard sent for my iPhone.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, so, if.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You've listened to this podcast for a while, I've gotten
this question over and over and over, and I got
to hand it to Photostick Mobile and Infinity Cloud. You
really have done a good job of marketing your products.
But when I go to your websites, that's when the
party is over, because these websites are something that I
(16:32):
would not really purchase from because they are you know. Actually,
I'm looking at the Infinity Cloud one and you know this,
it doesn't look as scammy as I thought. So, but
here's the thing, Ah, this is kind of weird. It
only has four hundred and twenty seven ratings on their app.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
That's kind of weird. That's not very much. Hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, at any rate, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
order one of these things and I'm gonna have to
see exactly how they work because I keep poopooing them
and I shouldn't poopoo them as much. I should really
see how they work and really try it for myself.
So with that said, generally, I don't recommend these because
(17:19):
you know this, this Infinity cloud actually doesn't look that bad,
but I have I need to test it out. But
the thing that I have tested and I do recommend
is the sand Disc I expand sand Disc I x
P A N D and you plug this little flask
drive into your iPhone, you download this software.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's got an app.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It'll even prompt you to download the software and boom,
all your photos are backed up and videos to this
little flask drive and then you can erase them off
your phone and have more more storage.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now, I would not.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Recommend doing that unless you have these also in a
different place, because if you ever lost this flash drive, boom,
all your pictures are gone, so you need to also
back them up. I would recommend something like Google Photos
or Amazon Photos, whatever you want, get them somewhere else
and get them backed up. It's getting tougher and tougher
to find free cloud storage these days, so you know
(18:11):
that's the main trick here is that everyone's starting to
kind of turn that little clamp.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
A little bit tighter. Right, It's like a little vice
gript It's like we're gonna squeeze just a little bit
of money out of you to store your photos.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Before it was all free and amazing Google Google Photos,
you still get fifteen gigs of storage. On iCloud you
get five gigs, which most people power through in about
one backup. And then on Amazon Photos if you're a
Prime member, you get unlimited storage for your photos, but
they only give you five. I think it's five gigs
(18:46):
of storage for your videos, which doesn't really get you
very far. And I like the idea of one of
these little drives to you know, offload some pictures, but honestly,
like I think it's just better in the cloud, Like
why go through this whole process of of putting it
on this thing that can like break or get lost
or stolen or anything, when you know, put it in
(19:06):
the cloud and you have a much better chance of
it of it lasting because you know, the cloud is
the cloud.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So that's my advice.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I will try to get one of these things, either
one or both in the Photostick Mobile or the Infinity
Cloud to really test them out and see maybe they're
not so bad. But again, I think the cloud is
a better place to do this. I know it costs
a little bit more, but I just think it's a
more secure way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
But if you want to go with one of these things,
I would say in the meantime, check out the sand
disc I expand all right, I was just in Santa
Barbara yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
My my, my.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What a beautiful place. What a beautiful place, and it
was raining a little bit. I got this delicious pizza
that I always get when I'm there from this place
called Lucky Penny. If you want to see it, check
out my Instagram at rich On Tech. Don't do it
if you're hungry, because you will want to get this pizza.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's so so delicious.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But anyway I say this, I was up there for
an unrelated shoot yesterday. But Sonos is headquartered in Santa Barbara,
and they came out with a brand new product called
the Sons Rome and this is their Bluetooth speaker that's
totally portable. And what I love about this speaker, even
though I've not tested it yet, is that it is
a Bluetooth speaker, which is portable, but it also links
(20:22):
into your Sons system at home. So this is a
really cool speaker that you can keep on your desk
in your office or in your kids room, and then
when you head out to the beach or on a vacation,
you can take this Sonos Rome. So I'll definitely be
getting this speaker. It's one hundred and sixty nine dollars.
It's April twentieth when it's available, and I got to say,
(20:44):
even though I haven't tested it, I have very high
hopes because I bought the sons Move during the pandemic
and this is kind of their big, big portable speaker
and it does the same thing pretty much as the Rome,
except it's bigger, so it has Bluetooth, also connects to
your speakers. It comes with the wireless charging DOC or actually, yeah,
(21:05):
I guess it is wireless. I mean you plug it in,
but it's a DOC and I love it. I love, love,
love the Move. Every time we're outside in the patio,
you know, with friends, family, whatever. I mean, you know,
far and few between these days, but you know, during
the pandemic, just hanging out outside in the backyard, which
we did a lot, we would just take out the
Move and it was so amazing because I used to
(21:26):
have a Sonos plugged in in the backyard and of
course when it rained, I'd remember to like bring it inside.
The speaker got all beat up because it's just being outside.
But the move it's like, oh brilliant. You just bring
it outside when you need it, and you move it
back inside when you don't.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yes, that's why it's called the move anyway. So that's
four hundred dollars. But this Sono's Rome is kind of
the same thing for one hundred and sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And yes, this is expensive.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
As far as Bluetooth speakers go, but if you have
a Sonos system at home, it is well worth it.
And clearly you're spending a little bit more than the
average bear on your speakers at home anyway, if you
have a Sonos and so this is going to be
a price point that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Let's see what features does this have. It's got a
feature called Soundswap, where you can press and play uh
hold the play pause button on the speaker to switch
the music to the nearest speaker on your Sonos system,
making it easy to move music from room to room.
That's kind of kind of cool. It also has unlock.
It unlocks Bluetooth streaming for your whole system, so if
you're streaming Bluetooth to this Move or the Rome rather,
(22:30):
then you can expand that exact same Bluetooth stream to
all of your speakers, something I don't think has been
available yet on Maybe I could do that with the Move.
I don't know, I've never tried it. To me, I
would just use airplay anyway. But you know if you're
using Bluetooth that you know it's good for Android as well.
Uh you know you know that Sonos works with over
one hundred streaming services. I call them the Switzerland of
(22:51):
streaming because it just works with everything on mine. I've
got like Apple Music linked up, I've got iHeartRadio linked up.
I've got Serious XM linked up, I've got YouTube music
link up. I think that's it and I just love it.
I can't say enough for for Sonos. It's IP sixty
seven resistant, so dust and waterproof, which is really cool
(23:12):
for bringing it to the beach if you live near
one of those, or camping or whatever. Now here's how
it charges. It has a custom magnetic wireless charger from
Sonos that is sold separately. So that to me means well,
this could have been two hundred dollars if they kept
it in the box. But they make you purchase that later.
But it works with any Chi wireless charger, and then
also it has a USBC cable in the box. Would
(23:35):
have been nice if they had this on a you know,
if the magnetic wireless charger came with it.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
But I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They wanted that price point, and not everyone wants the
wireless charging anyway, so you know, they figured make the
price a little bit more appealing and you know, leave
some things out of the box again. April twentieth, one
hundred and sixty nine dollars the sons Roam. If you
have a Sonos system and you know you're eyeing that move.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But it was just a little bit too pricey.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I think the rom is gonna be a really, really
exciting addition to the sound system.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are right?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Next question? Paul says, Hey, Rich, please help. With all
the technology out there, I still can't figure out how
to send a video that's more than five seconds long
in a text. I have the one plus seventy Android.
Are there any ways to send a video that's longer
than a few seconds in a text? I'm familiar with dropbox,
but I'd rather insert it in a text. Are there
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any androids out there that will do that. Thank you, Rich.
I love your segments. Every morning, Paul sent outlook for Android.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Here's the thing, SMS and video does not mix. So
when standard texting was invented, it just didn't have the
idea of sending a video through that little tiny pipeline.
And so, yes, you can send a video through text,
but it's gonna look like horrible garbage on the other side.
(25:00):
And I remember my mom sent me a text with
some video of snow that happened in her backyard, and
it was just so sad watching it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Because she's on an Android.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I get her a Google Pixel every maybe every other year,
and she loves it. She doesn't want to switch to iPhone,
so I keep her on the Pixel and she really
enjoys it and she loves her pictures. And it's simple
and it works. I can lock down the home screen.
She you know, she doesn't use a lot of apps.
But you know, she went to send me this video
a couple years ago and it was just so terrible,
and I felt I was just so sad because I
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was like, oh, here's my mom. She did this whole
thing and it just looks like garbled. You know, it's
so garbled, So Paul, that's what you're experiencing. And you
know on I message, you know anyone iphoned iPhone videos
look amazing because guess what Apple is sort of bypassing
the standard text messaging even though it seems like it's
a text message, it's going through their proprietary I message system.
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On Android, we have that in a way, but not
necessarily supported everywhere. So a couple things you do. Number one,
if you do have if you're on A one plus,
I think their standard messaging app is Google Messages, so
I would check to see if you're using that, and
then it depends on your carrier. I think all of
(26:15):
them at this point have instituted what's called chat, which
is RCS. I know it gets a little complicated, but
basically all the.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Maw do I explain this.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
There is a standard for text messaging, next generation text
messaging that does support large videos, large files. It's called RCS,
and you can go into your messenger. I think they
renamed it chat, and so you can go into your
Messenger settings and make sure that chat is turned on.
But that's only for sending it to another person that
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is also using the Google Messages app. And also has
chat turned on, which means ninety nine percent of the
time it's probably not gonna work in a beautiful way.
So where does that leave me? If you can do
all that, great, The other way to do it is just, honestly,
you got to get them to download an app to
send videos, which I would recommend either Facebook, Messenger, or
(27:10):
you can use something like Telegram, but or WhatsApp.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I mean, I would.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Probably just get you know, whoever you're texting this back
and forth with. I would get them to you know,
or use you know, something like Instagram. I mean, it's
just you gotta use something to just, you know, make
life a little bit easier. The whole chat thing, you know,
the the rcs and the and the sms, it's just
it's just too like on it's too unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The person on the other end may have an iPhone,
they may have an Android that they're not using the
same app for, so it's just much easier to just say, hey,
look like I did with my family, we're all on Telegram. Look,
let's all just get on Telegram and this is how
we chat from now on. And it is worked out beautifully.
It has been amazing and we have this nice long
(27:57):
chat that goes on forever and all in there my
whole family. It's amazing and it just works, and we
send pictures, we send videos, we send texts, we send jokes,
We chat in the morning and the night, all day,
and it's just it's brilliant. So, Paul, that's what I'd
recommend until the world figures out a cross platform way
(28:18):
of getting iPhones, androids, androids and androids all to talk
beautifully with SMS and send those large files.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Until then, I think an app is your best bet.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Now, real quick, if you just want to send one file,
like if this is just a one time thing and
you just need to send a large file, I would
just use something like a dropbox or a Google Drive.
Put it in there, generate a one time link, and
then send it off that way. One other way you
can do it is if you're on an Android and
you're using Google Photos, there's a way to just generate
(28:48):
a link for a video file. Just generate that link,
send that link off, and boom, they'll get the nice,
high quality video file. All right, next story here, I'm
sure you've noticed that gas prices are right near you,
So I did a segment where I talked about you know,
apps to find the best gas prices, and I hope.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I didn't do this last week? Did I? No?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I didn't, so uh, you know, I looked at gas Buddy,
which is the most popular one, which it's okay, probably
the most used, but the one that I actually kind
of like is called gas Guru. And the reason I
like this is because if you have an iPhone, you
can set up a series shortcut to use gas Guru
to find the cheapest gas near you in seconds. So
(29:29):
you download this gas Guru app, you scroll all the
way down and it says add to Siri. You hit
that button and then you come up with a passphrase
like a serie shortcut phrase, I use cheap gas. And
then anytime you say h Siri, cheap gas, boom, this
app opens up, It shows you the cheapest gas, you navigate,
(29:50):
and you get on with life. And so I think
it's really cool. In fact, after you have this app installed,
every couple of days or every day, I don't know,
you'll see just like a suggested series shortcut on your
you know notifications that says, you know, find cheap gas.
So you tap it and it brings you in there,
so I really enjoy it. I've just been enjoying watching
(30:11):
the gas prices go up and up and up, because
I posted this picture to my Facebook page a couple
of weeks ago about gas that was four dollars and
ninety nine cents, and people went nuts, saying.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Rich, how dare you? This is a lie? Gas is
not that expensive? And sure enough gas has slowly but
surely crept up in price.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And I just keep laughing every time I see gas
prices getting more and more expensive, because yeah, I'm paying
them too. But the reality is I knew this was happening.
I mean, that's why I posted that picture. So gas
prices in California. You know, It's like, let's see so
gas buddy. The thing I like about that, Oh I
deleted already, but the gas guru anyway. So the point is,
(30:52):
download one of these apps if you want to find
cheap gas and.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Go for it. All right, let's get to the next question. Rich.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
My wife and I love your reports. They're always destination
viewing for both of us.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Wow, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We do not presently have a password manager app, and
I wonder if you had a few that you could recommend,
thank you, and.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Stay safe, Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I think I talked about this on a previous show,
but I will be honest. I was up in Santa
Barbara to get a preview of the password management app
called Bitwarden, and now a couple of weeks ago when
I talked on the podcast about how last Pass is
going to start basically charging if you want the full
feature set for their password manager on March sixteenth, I believe,
(31:43):
and so I was talking about alternatives and I mentioned
things like, you know, you can still continue with last Pass,
just pay a little bit to get all your features.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I talked about.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Dash Lane one password, and a lot of people tweeted
me and said, hey, don't forget about bitwarden Bitwarden Bitwarden,
which I'd never heard of, and so sure enough I
looked into it and it has some really great features
for free. And so if you don't have a password
manager app and you're looking for something that is going
to continue to be free. And I just talked to
the CEO and I said, are you going to charge
(32:14):
when you know people sign up? He said, no, this
is We're going to be free. And so there are
some things you don't get with free but honestly, for
a majority of people, it's not going to be that
big of a deal. The one thing that you probably
that you might want with the free version that you
don't get is passwords sharing. So if you want to
be able to share passwords with a you know, a
(32:35):
family member, you would have to upgrade. And now, by
the way, upgrading is like ten dollars a year or
like I think it's forty for the family plan. Whatever
it is. It's very it's not that expensive. But you
can totally get by with their free version. I was
looking at it yesterday. It's it looks great. I mean,
it really does so Bitwarden, I would recommend Joe. You
mentioned a password manager app, which I always tell people
(32:58):
if you're only in the Google ecosystm them, or if
you're only an Apple, just use the built in Apple.
It has an iCloud keychain, you can just use that.
Or if you're on Android and Google it's I think
they call it smart Password. Let's see what do they
call They just call it Google Password Manager. So if
(33:19):
you're on you know, if you use Chrome and use
an Android, just use Google Password Manager and that can
store all your stuff for free, and it's it's super easy,
and it's you know, as long as you have a
good password on your Google account, then you have a
good you know, password manager there. But I would use
one of these third party services like a bit warden,
a dash lane or last pass or a one password.
(33:40):
If you use various devices like a Mac computer and
an Android phone, or an Android phone and a PC.
You know, that way you can store these things across
all your devices. And that's the functionality that last Pass
used to have. But they are going to start charging
for you have to choose do you want your passwords
available on just mobile devices or on just you know,
(34:01):
you have to choose one type of device, which is
gonna be tough for a lot of people, because the
average person is creating a password on their phone or
their desktop and then using it on their phone or
desktop like swapping vice versa. Right, And so that's the
functionality they identified that would make it, you know, push
people to upgrade. Good question, Joe, thanks a lot, all right,
(34:22):
Speaking of passwords, Netflix is beginning to crack down on
passwords sharing outside your household. The streamable dot com with
a big, big story here. They really, they really blew
the lid off of this one. Netflix subscribers are starting
to see a screen that says, if you don't live
(34:43):
with the owner of this account, you need your own
account to keep watching, and then in order to continue,
you have to verify the account with an email or
text code or create a new account with a thirty
day free trial. Now, if you're friends with the person
that you are sharing your password with, I mean theoretically,
you know you would, you would call them up and say, hey,
(35:04):
I just got a one time password, can you share
that with me? But Netflix knows that that's going to
be just annoying enough to push a percentage of people
into getting their own accounts, because let's be honest, if
your friends and family are on your account, they're streaming
at all different times and places, and it may not
be convenient to call you up and get that code
from you every single time. Plus it's gonna get annoying. So,
(35:27):
you know, depending on how many times Netflix pushes this
out there, you know, is it every time they log
in and here's how they're doing this, you know, or
we don't know actually how they're doing it. I'm sure
they're using some algorithm to figure this out. But the
easiest would be that I'm in California and let's say
I share my password theoretically with a family member that
lives in New Jersey, and so Netflix goes, Okay, we
(35:49):
see that you're logging in from California, and then we
just saw this log in from New Jersey from a
different device.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Hmm, We're gonna give that person New.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Jersey a little prompt that says, hey, you gotta aren't paying,
or you know, get your own password, or get this
one time thing. That's pretty easy. Now, you might say, well, rich,
I travel all the time. How are they gonna know
if I'm traveling again? This is why they use an
algorithm to kind of figure things out. They notice that
your iPad primarily checks Netflix in California, but then all
of a sudden it travels to Colorado and their algorithm
(36:20):
allows for that. Or they give you that one time
code and you get it to your phone and your
phone's right nearby and you pop it in and says.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Okay, just making sure. So they're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know, this is a test, and they're gonna try
this in various ways. But the reality is it's coming.
It's been a long time coming. Netflix has been very
generous with password sharing, and clearly they've gotten to that
point again that little vice gript where they're just just turning.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
It a little bit, a little bit, just squeeze a little.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Bit, and look, we're gonna see this as a theme
over and over with these companies. They have been very
generous in sharing and letting people do this as they grow.
But as these companies get bigger and they say, look,
you know what, you know, it used to be novel
that you had a Netflix account, but now it's not
(37:08):
so novel, Like this is pretty much the way of
the future.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And so it was nice that you share it with.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Your mom and your grandma and your sister and your
you know, your cousin and also your roommate from college.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
But at this point they got.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
To pay, Like it's maybe they were watching it for
Queen's Gambit at one point, or like one show that
was popular, and you know, now it's like there, this
is an entirety of their streaming consumption, and so yeah,
they can pay the eight ninety nine to get their
own their own account, or the thirteen ninety nine or
in my case, seventeen ninety nine premium plan that I
pay for which gets you four K, so which I
(37:45):
probably don't need. But anyway, be aware if you see
it right now. According to the streamable, it's only seeing
the people are only seeing the test on TV devices,
so that could be part of it. But anyway, just
something to know and something to be aware of it.
Jerry writes in Hey, Rich, you discussed fall detection on
(38:08):
the last podcast. I purchased the Apple Watch with this
feature immediately when it became available in twenty seventeen. My
wife suffers from extreme tonightis and one of the effects
of this is dizziness. The bouts of this can come
on quickly without any warning. At times, the dizziness is
so bad she just to hold on to a poll
or table to keep from falling O. The feature has
(38:31):
interceded two times after my wife fell while walking the neighborhood.
One time she was unconscious, the other time she was
severely dazed. Thankfully, a neighbor came out and saw my
wife both times after not receiving a response from her.
The neighbor is an Apple Watch is an Apple user
and realized what was occurring and let the watch complete
(38:51):
its task. It contacted our local nine one one and
they dispatched rescue squad to her location. It also contacted
me with a text message. This occurred within seven minutes
of her fall, and the EMTs were on scene within
fifteen Amazing. The app you discussed it was the best
by app seems to add a couple of layers to
this process, which I feel would delay the responses. Plus,
(39:13):
why pay for something that came with the investment you've
already made for Apple devices. You are correct, besides crash
detection with Google Pixel, I am a longtime pixel slash
Nexus user. We need fall detection of the caliber that
Apple offers. Have a great day, Stay safe, Jerry. Yeah, Jerry, Well,
I hate to hear that your wife suffers from this,
(39:35):
but I'm glad she's okay, And it is scary that
that happens.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
If you didn't listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
What Jerry's referring to is I was on a run
and I tripped, and it was basically one of those
trips that if I landed on the ground, it would
have been bad, and yeah, the Apple Watch hopefully would
have sprung into action. I was with my son and
he was referring to the fact that I was talking
about this best spy app they have now called Lively
(40:02):
that taps into the API, the API that Apple Watch
has written for other companies to allow them to take
advantage of the fault detection as well. I was not
aware that Apple had done that, which is great, and
so Jerry, I agree. I think that it does add
a different layer to things, and I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
But at the same time, I.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Still think it's good to have options, and I'm sure
that that Best Buy solution, you know, even though they're
doing a thing where I guess they use an agent
to contact you first to make sure you're okay. Maybe
there's an option inside the app to go directly to
nine will one.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I haven't tested that app, so I don't really know.
It's brand new, but I agree. I mean, time is
of the essence in these situations. So yeah, having that
Apple Watch native support is probably the best. But I
would assume that these companies are pretty smart and they
think about that and they say, you know, maybe they're
calling someone I don't know. I mean, I think I
(41:01):
see both sides of this. I think it's good to
have options, and you know who knows, maybe someone will
come up with a smarter way than what Apple does,
and you know, maybe we'll come up with the way
where you you know, as soon as you start a workout,
it's kind of like on guard and it's like, okay,
if we if we notice a fall, we're going to
contact immediately.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
We're not even gonna wait that sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
So I don't know, but I think that it's good
to have options. I think it's good that we have
systems like this, and I think they're only going to
get better. I mean, like you said, it first became
available in twenty seventeen, which sounds like a long time.
At this point, it's four years. I can't believe it's
been that long. But people are still learning about it.
And with the crash detection on the Google Pixel, you know,
(41:41):
it's something that not everyone knows. And I called for
Samsung to do something similar on their phone, and I
call for Fitbit to do something similar on their watches.
So we need more and more of this stuff, and
I think it's going to happen more, more and more.
But again, in some aspects, we're very much just at
the beginning of all of this, and so I love
that we have these options. I think Best Buy is
(42:03):
just one more option to have. And I'm glad that
this has come into handy with your wife twice.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I hope it.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Doesn't have to work again, but sounds like it's an
ongoing thing, and it's good that she has this Apple
Watch and in your case, it's a great thing, and
you know anyway, so I'm glad that you like the idea.
I'm glad you like the Apple Watch if it's working
for you to stick with it. But again, I like
the idea that we have more options for people, and
I hope that the options are even more generous in
(42:34):
the future. And just we get we see more and
more of these and no matter what you're using, whether
you're just carrying a phone or a watch, or even
in cars, we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
More crash detection.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So it's a really good thing that tet technology is
enabling this stuff. All right, let's talk about Twitter. This
is kind of a small story, but it's interesting and Twitter.
The number one complaint I see on Twitter is you know,
the tech folks talk about Twitter compression and even on Instagram,
(43:04):
same thing. It's like, ah, compressed my video, It compressed
my picture and it looks like garbage. And so often
tech reviewers are sharing pictures from new phones and stuff,
new cameras on there, and you just can't get an
idea of how good it is. Because Twitter takes your
image and it compresses it down so that it's cheap
for them to store it and it's less expensive to
(43:26):
send out, and you know, they can send it out quicker.
Maybe they keep the original somewhere I don't know, probably,
but when they're serving it up to you on Twitter
on your timeline, they're not serving up a high quality,
high resolution picture because you know, that's cost too much
money over and over to send it out to so
many people. So Twitter for iOS is testing a new
(43:48):
design and four K support. This is according to nine
to five MAC.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
So two things.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Number one, when you look at pictures in the timeline,
they're no longer going to crop them.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
There was some controversy about how Twitter was applying cropping
to pictures and apparently their computers were not doing the
best job at that, and now they're going to show
the entire image and so now that's going to be
the number one change. The other change is that they're
testing four K image uploads, which means when you look
(44:20):
at these pictures, they're going to have a better resolution
than ever before, which means you know, if you're looking
at details on things, you can zoom in and see them.
So when you're sharing pictures on Twitter, you should be
aware of this because you know, often when we share pictures,
there could be some personal information lurking in those pictures
if you zoomed in, and so just be aware that, yeah,
(44:40):
people might be able to see more in your pictures
than ever before. And on the flip side, it's a
cool thing because if you're sharing a beautiful picture of
a beach or you know, for me, I would share
a picture of like a you know, some kind of
image from a new smartphone, it's cool that you can
zoom in and see just how clear that image is.
So if you want, if you're in this test, this
is on Iowa only, you can go into Twitter settings,
(45:03):
then in data usage, choose the high quality option. Now
there is a high quality option already in those Twitter settings,
but unless you specifically see the word four K, you're
not part of that test. You can you can always
choose between high quality and kind of basic, but now
it will specifically say four K. If you see that
in your settings, then you are part of the test
and you'll see four K images, which I think is
(45:24):
really cool. The other thing is that this is only
images right now, nothing about video. So maybe four K
video will come along in the future, but right now,
this is just for images. And another note, how wild
is it that we've come so long with Twitter? I
remember the days when Twitter did not even support images.
Used to use a service, a third party service to
(45:46):
upload your picture. It was like called twit pick or
all these other ones where you'd actually upload your picture
there and then you would send out a link to
that picture on Twitter. And so we've come a long way.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Next question from Let's see car Let's see who is
this from? This is from Carol uh Dear Rich. Is
this just a come on to get us to give
Google information? Or has someone really compromised my passwords? I
change them constantly for this reason, and I do not
(46:25):
trust the people at Google to give them any access
to any of my passwords. Have you seen this before
and what would you do about it? I'm a seventy
eight year old grandma. I'm a target for scam. Sorry
to bother you. But I thought maybe others might have
gotten this email as well. I would appreciate any help. Sincerely,
Carol in Chesterfield, Missouri, and she sent along an email
(46:47):
that says subject take action to secure your compromise passwords.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
It says Google has.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Found some of your passwords online. Anyone who finds them
can access your accounts. Your Google account is still secure.
This leak came from somewhere else on the web. You
can secure your saved passwords now using password manager take
action and smartly. They also give a direct link that
says you can also go directly to my account Google
dot com slash security check up. And this kind of
(47:15):
goes into what I was speaking about earlier about Google
storing your passwords. And I'll give you an example of
this that actually came in handy.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
So my mom a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Was like, I can't find my password to my work email.
And I said, oh, I bet you. I stored it
in Google Chrome for you because I don't, like I said,
I don't use a separate password manager for her. Maybe
I didn't say that, but I use I do store
some of her passwords in Google Chrome, and so I said,
go into Chrome press the three little dots, then press settings,
(47:46):
then go to autofill and click passwords, and you'll see
a list of.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
A whole bunch of accounts.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
And she said, oh, yeah, I do see my account there,
but all I see your little dots. And I said, oh,
pressed the little icon that looks like an eye, and
you will have to type in your password to reveal that.
And once you reveal that, boom, there is your password.
And I said, press the copy password button and you
(48:16):
can copy and paste that into the website. She said, Oh,
my gosh, you're a genius. She said, I didn't even
know that Google saves my passwords. And you may not
know this either, but you'll you will notice if you
log into a website and Google sometimes says, hey, would
you like us to save this password? And sometimes it
happens so fast you might not even notice it. And Carol,
(48:38):
that's exactly what happens here. You logged into a website
and that little prompt came up. They said would you
like us to save your password? And you said yes,
And now these passwords are stored in Google. On Chrome
or Google, you can go to passwords. I think you
can go to passwords dot Google dot com to also
see them. And what they're doing is they're checking those
(49:00):
passwords against open databases that they find on the web
with exposed passwords, and if they find one of your
passwords on there, they're going to send you this alert.
So this is not a scam. It's actually real. And
in fact, because they found this, I would I would
go in and look at those passwords and see which
ones are compromised and I would change those. So I
(49:24):
would go to passwords dot Google dot com and check
and see what passwords are. If you go to Google
password check up, it will tell you which ones are
compromised and.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Yeah, something that you should do. Oops. So anyway, that
is not a scam. It's real. It's legit.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
And I know you don't trust Google with your passwords,
but honestly, Carol, I would trust them more than a
lot of people with my passwords, better than having them
out in the open web, which it sounds like one
of your passwords made it there. How does a password
make it to the open Web. Well, a site gets compromised,
and so what happens is when a site gets hacked,
(50:04):
all those passwords from that website in many cases are
exposed on the open Web, and what happens is you
get those passwords out there and next thing you know,
these hackers try them on other websites and with your credentials.
So you definitely don't want those floating around and you
definitely don't want to use a compromised password continually.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
So change those passwords. And good question.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
I'm glad you're on the lookout for this kind of stuff.
And yeah, so there you have it. All right, one
more question before we go. Good morning, Rich. I am
looking for facial recognition technology to support my genealogical research
identifying old photographs, at least allowing me to group photographs
(50:52):
of the same person. I heard your interview at Jennifer
Jones Lee on KFI about animating old photographs, and I
was wondering if you have any ideas. I've performed several
searches and have not found anything at a consumer level
that is affordable. Most are for police and security, which
does not meet my simple requirements. I am wondering if
you have any ideas. Thank you for your time, Carl. Well, Carl,
(51:13):
I do have an idea, and it's so simple it's
going to be mind boggling and here's the thing. So
often we always look for these you know, you probably
typed in facial recognition for photographs or something, and it
probably came up with all these high end solutions, like
you said, for law enforcement or whatever.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
But here's the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Just toss these photos into Google Photos and boom, let
it do its thing and it will find all the
people in those photos with the same faces. So easy, right,
And so I love this feature in Google Photos. They
are the best. Apple also has this feature built into
their Photos program.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
You can do that.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I think Google is pretty good, and I think it's
just a little bit easier, and it's free and it's simple,
and you can use it on the web. That's what
I would do. In fact, I'll let you take it
one step further. When I digitized a bunch of old
videos from when I was a kid, it will even
search for faces inside those videos, which is just seriously,
seriously cool. So back in the day, you know, you
(52:19):
record a home video that was like two hours long,
not like today where we take these short clips and
Google just goes through and all the faces in that
photo in that video are now also logged. So if
you have you know Uncle Adam a picture of Uncle
Adam boom. It will also identify Uncle Adam in the
videos that you upload. So I think Google Photos is
(52:40):
the simplest way to do it. I think it's an
amazing way to do it. It's free, it's cheap, well it's
free and or cheap depending on how many pictures you have.
It's simple, it's easy, it's available, and not much that
you have to do to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
So great, great question there, Carl. Good question to answer
to end the show, because guess what that sound means?
That is gonna do it for this episode of the show.
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Speaker 2 (54:01):
It is such a cool thing to do. Try it.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Let me know what you think. I think it's just
really really cool. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so
much for listening. There are so many ways you can
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spending it with me. Stay safe, I will talk to
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