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Dt, TV and hit contact. We've got some great guests this week. Two people I know very well, tech ourn alist rob peg aro.

He maintains wire cutters, cellphone plan, cellphone plan guide. And he's going to tell you how to choose the right Carrier and plan for your needs. Going to be a great conversation there.

And then later, DNA r. Min, we will talk about making an AI video clone and talk about the potential for this and also the implications of this. But first, let me fire up my riband metas.

Here you can see this if you're listening obviously on the radio, but in person here I am wearing the new ray ban meta smart classes. Went to the opening of the store here in los Angeles this week. This is just a pop up store.

But I was really, really cool. I had the first version of these glasses, and I was impressed with them, but not enough to really think that they were incredible or the next big thing. But now with the second version, I can confidently say that this is an amazing gift this holiday season, because these things make me feel smart.

So what are the ray ban meta glasses? Number one, um they're basically sunglasses or just regular glasses made by raban, obviously but meta is the partner on this. So obviously the facebook parent.

And so what do they have? They've got a camera, they've got a microphone and they've got a speaker on board. So what does that enable you to do?

You can take pictures and videos, and you also can listen to music. You can take phone calls, and there is little privacy light. So when you're recording, you can see that. Other people can see that your recording.

So if I press and hold this button right now, hopefully on the on the rady, on the weekly show on kt L A, you can see bobo work in the board there in the background, a bobo what's up, but so you can get really interesting point of view. So you can get your point of view. And of course, the whole point of that is for you to share more to social media, to share more of your life to social media.

And IT does work in that aspect because you're getting unique angles that you wouldn't typically see. So i'm haven't fun with that. You can take photos, you can take videos.

But what's really interesting to me is the A I aspect. And this was not on the first generation, but they have built met A A I into this. So you can just ask meta AI for information about anything.

So let's say you're holding something in your hand or you're looking at a building. You can just say, hey, meta, tell me what this is and your glasses will snap a picture of that thing, look IT up on the internet or using A I and tell you all about IT. So it's quite incredible.

It's quite fast and it's really interesting. So these do connect to your phone. So that's how that work.

So all of the pictures kind of download your phone, the videos download your phone, but it's also using that phone connection so that I can use that. Ask, ask me A A, I feature. I think that is probably the cool feature about these glasses, because that makes you feel superhuman.

Now, yes, you can do this with a lot of different things. You can look up stuff on your phone. You can use google lens.

You can there are some earbuds that actually lets you access AI in your ear, but there's something different about just having IT sort of on your face and it's something you're wearing anyway, especially here in los Angeles wearing sunglasses all day long. And I guess that's my biggest downside of these meta AI glasses. Is that two things, the charging case, it's really weird because IT charges in the case, but I think it's sort of like magnetics.

So getting these out of the case without smudging up the lenses is really tRicky. I've noticed that. And then the second thing is that the transition lenses, they're supposed to go from dark to light, you know outside inside kind of those transition lenses, they don't really get that dark.

So for instance, this morning I went on a run and I wanted to wear these, but I knew that the glasses wouldn't get dark enough to act as sunglasses so they get a little bit dam but not really enough for my day so you could of course get a real pair of sunglasses um that also do this functionality you know the meta smart glass come on like A A true sunglass version or if you wear glasses, you can get these as your everyday glasses. I can't tell you much about the battery life is only been a couple of days, so I not really know how good that is, but seems like the battle life is decent, but I have say very impressed. So this is the second store in los Angeles, some meos AV.

If you're in L A. In the next couple of months, they're also going to open one in phoenix that's actually going to be a permanent installation. So i've got one store up in mental park where met as headquartered.

This store in los Angeles is a pop up and then you've got the real store they're going to build in phoenix. But apparently, people really like this stuff. They started three on our box, so not cheap.

But i'm telling you, I think if you've got some techy in your life during the holiday season, you're trying to figure out like what to get for them. These are incredible, even though my wife said I look funny in them today. What's k because you look nerdy.

What do you mean? I look nerdy. That's why I am.

I am a nerd. Look a .

trr today. extra. That's am his first fares buler, the guy for bullers day off. His very good. So I look like fair spiller friend.

We remember .

right well of Cameron. I look at kim kim, pop in with the Cameron. I guess I kim knows everything. Kim are coreen or kim SHE is SHE really is or maybe he just looked up. We don't know you.

It's tough with one thing I notice live on the radio IT is SHE said no SHE did not look IT up. SHE knew IT off the top of her head yeah, can is is our pop culture expert. He knows every reference are right.

So you know that well, I know that you are well aware of the election news this week. I'm not gonna rehash all that, but surface to say a new administration means there will be a new way of doing business. And let me caution you as a journalist, okay. Because as a journalist with many, many years in the business, I can tell you what i'm seeing right now is a lot of speculation, a lot of storing the pot and a lot of people saying, oh, H, I want to get in on this because people are click in headlines.

So if you see a headline right now that involves the new president trump, president elect trump, along with the words could should my, would you have to take a step back and understand that? That is just someone putting the opinion out there? So this morning, for instance, I got an email from someone say, hey, should I get a laptop today?

Because gonna be twenty percent more in a couple of weeks. We don't know that laptops are going to be twenty percent more than a few weeks. Keep that in mind.

When you're looking at these headlines, they're there to sort of stir the pot. They're there to get you to click. They're there to get get angry.

So just remember that while you're looking through this stuff, what do we know right now? Nothing we know, zero. And even what i'm about to tell you is a little bit of speculation. And if you listen to this show, I always say, I tell you the tech news that I think you need to know IT is stuff that actually happened.

I could talk all day long about the rumors and speculation of what the next apple products going to be or what google is gona do next or what their next move might be or could be or should be. Or here's what that means. But I don't I talk about the stuff that actually matter.

So with that said, let me just give you kind of what I think is going to happen with big business and with the tech world when IT comes to a president electron p number one, friendly here to merges acquisitions. We know that's going to be a thing. We've seen a lot of major acquisitions fall apart under the abiden administration because it's just not as friendly to these large mergers.

So adobe and figura didn't happen. Amazon and irobot didn't happen. VISA and plaid did not happen. I think that that's going to change.

I think that we're going to see more of these tech companies scoop up the smaller tech companies because that's just what's gna happen under this administration. IT just makes a lot of sense. Crypto friendly.

So president elect trump has said multiple times and he spoke at events that he's going to be be more cyp to friendly. His administration is going to embrace cyp to in a way that we probably haven't seen. If you're following crypto, you're following bitcoin.

You know this already because bitcoin has shot up on speculation that this administration is going to be friendly or to IT. Is the us. Gna switch to bitcoin as as the your dollar bill? No, that's not gonna en.

But will IT be more friendly to crypto and cypher regulations? Probably A I when IT comes to A I, we're probably going to see a lighter touch when IT comes to regulations on A I, that's a good and bad thing, is going to low the us. To flourish when IT comes to AI and continue to be a leader.

If you look at just think about A I, it's only been two years. It's been two short years, and A I has changed everything. Every single product that I cover in the tech world since the introduction of ChatGPT has some sort of A I component.

You look at apple, they just transform the entire iphone into A I. You look at samsung, the entire samsung galaxy phone is built with A I. You look at pixel, it's all about A I. You look at google, their entire business was up ended because of A I. Now not just yet, but that company, uh, they've done a good job building their AI into everything they've been working, thankfully, with machine learning all that stuff for a long time.

But these companies are are standing to benefit from a lighter touch, probably me because they know that they can push the limits a little bit more with A I now again, we don't know. We don't know what's going to happen, but this is what sort of i'm expecting to happen. Now evs are an interesting one because we know from the last time that Donald trump was in the White house, he was not a huge fan of evs.

But here he comes back to the White house and look, his best friend is elon mask, the guy that really pushed for him to get this job once again. And so this is a wild card. Now he has not been favorable to elector cars in the past.

But I think we are going to see a change because elon mosque is going to have this year this time around. And of course, elon mosque with tesla stands to benefit a lot from thump t administration that is friendly or on electric ars. Now do we think we're going to see the same sort of regulations like we have here in california where they want to make that full switch to electric cars by a certain time period?

I don't think that's gonna a national thing, we'll say, but we don't know. Again, speculation. I'm just telling what I expect to happen.

But I think the EV part is a very tRicky part for this new administration because people like their gas cars. That has been very clear to me on this show. Um I live in california where you go in every third cars, electric.

Bobo, I mean, bobo, can I can I actually hear your new election car? Bobo just got a electa car. And so it's it's one of these things and he loves IT. What do you love about IT?

It's so easy. It's no maintenance.

Just get up and go. The negative though .

is .

the way time for charging, but that's going to get Better and that's going to change in other states. You know, you go to other places. I went to a car the other day.

I specifically did not rent electric car because I knew charging will be a pain here. Now I not a pain at all anyway, so there you go. That's the talk about the president elect.

Now, sketch your calls. Eighty eight rich, one to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one. everyone.

My name is rich tomorrow. And this is rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on tech.

Rich, the mirror here hanging out with you talking technology at shrip at rich, one of one that's eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one. Give me call. If something is bugging you, you need some help with something.

You need a question answered. Eighty eight, rich, one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero one. Come on up. Will take about this iphone notes APP bug. If you logged your notes APP and you found them all gone, there is a fix i'll tell about that in a moment but we were talking about those raban meta smart classes and russ, in grand junction, colorado, you've got a pare these .

or what had them about to three months and I happened, we totally blind oh wow. Now um i'm sure if you go back in the way back, the listeners remember when radio h accused to make like clocks that talked they were pretty gimli, but they happened to work with blind people.

Okay.

these meta glasses are wonderful for a couple reasons. rich. First of all, if you go down to red band, say, in los Angeles, you pay the same three hundred dollars that I pay here in grand junction. So means a lot of a lot of technology for blind people .

is very yeah, right? It's a little .

over of users. Well, anyway, these glasses are wonderful and you you can imagine the number by people to use them.

Well, so how are using and tell me.

well, I use them for scanning my mail um I have very I in fact, I was telling him the other day I had one of those big up matric cups and I lost my straw IT fell down on the ground and of course I couldn't find IT so I said, hey, meter helpme find my straw IT told me exactly where .

I was so amazing .

that's amazing .

and in yesterday I just said, what am I doing right now and I said, I IT looks like you are driving. Maybe I couldn't be using all driving, but he looks like, looks like you are driving. I knew the exact car that I was in IT, just as described the whole scene, like the whole everything.

And I think this is incredible. And I know what is doing. It's taking a picture and then it's using A I to sort of analyzed that picture.

But you can put anything in front of you as some imagine you've done this as well. You can put anything in front of you. And I will tell you what that .

is like you'll describe IT you right? As long as long as you use the a the responses you know you you have to say, hey, meter, look at and then you get the response is a man sing, uh, you know, go under the freezer, grab a box of, say pizza yeah say, hey, matter ah what do you see the directions for you?

No way. That is incredibly so it's interesting you say this because I went to like an assist of tech conference and they had a lot of these glasses are kind of like the holy grail, right, for assistance for visually impaired, but they are very expensive. The ones I saw, we're like five thousand box. yeah. C 3。 Yeah yeah. no.

Would you like naturally, the glasses, there are specialty glasses for blind people probably have other things.

But as these move along, the people that meta and Robin have realized, there are lots of users who want to use the glasses and they're going to make them more intelligent for bind people, right? My question to you as a cited person is why would you want this mean? But I think if you think about IT, you know, what do they do for you? Because you can see the use cases for somebody you can.

yes. But here's a thing for me IT IT makes me feel super human because the fact that I can just look at IT, let's i'm traveling and I might take a picture of a building and say to google, like, you know, explain with these buildings all about, or give me the history on IT. But now to be able to just look at that building and let's say, paris for answer or something and just say, give me the history of this building, that's incredible.

And it's just again, we are just the first couple of years of this stuff. These glasses have only been out for a couple of years in the new model, I think is even Better then the first model and the AI is brand new. So I think for anyone that is that just wants to know, obviously, on the cutting edge right now is our Prices.

But I think that is that superhuman idea of like before I was an address book, we would put our our phone numbers in an address book and we won't have to remember them. Now this is like that time a million. Imagine having the higher and psycho pedia in your ears at any given time.

It's quite incredible. Russian grand junction color to thanks so much for giving me a call today. Appreciate a rich one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one.

Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here hanging out, you talking technology at tripoli. Rich, one one that's eighty eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero one. I see we've got the website rich on tech dot TV. You can go there to, I get the show notes, sign up for my newsletter, be sure to do that every week.

I send out a newsletter with all kinds of great information and links and things, the technology you need to know, kind like a version of this show, basically, let's see. Then you can go to contact that or something, an email. And if you want notes on anything I mentioned, you can hit the light bob icon.

And i've already posted to my instagram at rich on tch, a little video of me in the raban metas. So you can see what that looks like going to come into to the studio here. If you're trying to access a ChatGPT, you can do a new way.

You can go to chat dot com. Chat dot com. Now take you straight to ChatGPT.

Apparently this was a the previous person who owned this purchase the domain in twenty twenty three for about fifteen million dollars. And he sold IT to OpenAI for an undisclosed amount. But he apparently accepted company shares.

I would do that. Accept company shares, an OpenAI sure there's they're gonna be OK, but anyway, much is your chat dot com if you want to access chat G B T. By the way, don't forget about perplexity ai because ChatGPT does web search.

Now they're y've incorporated the web, the internet into their search. It's it's okay, it's it's pretty good, is not like perfect. But because they've done that, I started going back to perplexity because they they are the originators of sort of the web A I search and perplexity that A I is really cool because I call a book report.

So if you want like information about a subject, they're really good at coming up with a nice report about things. So perplexity AI, i've been using a lot more, especially grateful like answering questions that you have. So check IT out if you have an iphone OK. If you had the iphone bug where you opened up your notes APP and all the notes were missing, there is a fix. This is quite scary.

This is like everyone's biggest fear with the cloud, right, is that you go to open up this uh APP or whatever, let's say, google photos or your google drive, your eyes, cloud drive your I cloud photos, your notes and they are gone and you go, what what. So apparently this was a bug affecting iphone. Running I O S.

Eighteen and IT was because a lot of you, I didn't see this. Maybe I did, but I didn't. Maybe I just click through IT really quick, but apparently there was a thing we had to accept ee cloud terms and conditions.

And if you didn't accept those, I guess the sink went away for a bit. I don't know. I didn't see this happen on my phone.

I don't use apple notes. I use that. I always I prefer third party platform program. So i'm using notion right now. I really, really like.

But apple notes, if you're using IT and all of your stuff on the way, here's how you get IT back going to settings, tap your name with the top eye cloud and then notes and make sure sink this iphone togo is enabled. And if it's not toglet and reopen the notes APP IT takes about ten minutes few notes to come back in. If that doesn't work, then just took the sank off, toggle back on and remote your phone.

But that's the main thing is I guess I was related to this, I cloud terms and conditions. But no, no permanent da OSS has been reported by people and your notes are on other devices. If you have IT on your mac computer, something like that, but kind of scary, that's like again, as the biggest fear of logging in in your stuff.

God, that is not fun. Oh my god. We have another endorsement for the the metal glasses, Julian and woodland hills. We've talked you on .

the show before. Welcome back. Yes, a little K A I M H how we IT it's going to affect the lives of people with horse ling the more vision and we had just started to talk about the to be my eye e service that they were offering an ai assistant.

Well um speaking of the metal glasses um something that was announced ly IT matters big conference about their stuff is a partnership with that organization. Be my eyes where you can use the matter smart glasses to connect to the be my ice volunteer. It's currently in beta test right now on one of the beta testers. And I can tell you that when this convert, everybody is going to be amazing because, yes, we've been able to do this with our phones before.

But when you are blind the vision and neither using a cane or a guide dog and feel like that caring things, sometimes rabba phone is not the most convenient thing to do, right? And because we wear IT, it's is so easy you talk to IT you don't have to do anything with your hands, they just work. Um I mean the midst of travel right now and I use IT through the airport to find food, to find the gate, to find all kinds of things and it's just I think using are definitely game change using .

the be my eyes feature to find the gate like so so explain how that works. So let's say you're wearing these glasses, you say you connect to a volunteer, can they see what you're seeing in lifetime or at a snapshot or what?

Now IT seems realize. So wow, making a video call just like, you know, right now, anybody can make a video call through a facebook messenger. What's up? But IT involves launching the APP, making the call, hitting the the shutter button, two terms to enable the video.

Cameron, the glass. This makes us happen. Or seamless, where the phones in my pocket and never has to come out. I just tell, hey, m be my eyes. And it's a look at a connecting you to volunteer from, be my eyes. And within a matter of seconds, I am connected to a volunteer who has a view through my camera in front of me and now can give me your access to whatever information I need.

That's why so people are just standing by, like as they signed up to be a volunteer for be my eyes, we've got the APP on their phone and they're just waiting for someone to kind of paying them and they say, OK cool. And then they get that live shot or the live stream. I should say live shot is TV talk.

They get the live stream and they can just see and be like, okay, so I see gate one thirty four ahead. If you look to the left, you can see the lounges over there. If you look ahead, there's a starbucks and they can see that that's really amazing. well.

There's another service you really, really heard of. A four told iran and they also provide the same kind of service, but their agents are trained and paid and under N D A, didn't know let's stuff and they've got a beter program going as well. So pretty soon you'll be available. So both visual interpreter services are going to be available to to blind the vision people over the world through these glasses.

Oh, that so they're working with the ira as well on the metal glasses. wow. Okay, that's A I R. A. Is that one A I R A?

Yeah A I R A that I O A website. And now there in the process, I get that done and it's gonna wonderful. And plus that's to mention the A I and these things is great, like I use IT all the time just for going shopping, browsing the shells. You know you pick up something and wonder what is this now I could just ask the thing, what is looking to me? What i'm holding or or look and read to me um what this is and I get all kinds of information.

It's so wild. Julian, thanks. Thanks for that. Really, really great inside safe travels there. And this is what's so great about testing this stuff out, which is what I do for a living, is that I was aware of these glasses. I was aware of meta AI.

And sometimes you sort of i'm going to say poo, but you sort of dismiss stuff like I met A I another A I service. But when you put these things on and you realize that this is one of the few tech products I put on and tried and it's like immediately I realized there's something special here and we are just at the beginning. And then when you hear from folks like russ and like Julian, you realize that there is something bigger at play here.

And like Julian are like a russ said, these these visually impaired products, you know the products for the visually impaired are typically very expensive because they're making them maybe not at a mass scale, but something like the ray band met as they're making so many of a millions of them for for everyone. And so that's why there they're able to be three hundred dollars versus five thousand dollars. There was that phone.

I saw that assist of tech contact thing, assistant tech conference, the blind shell phone, which I thought was really incredible. And IT does everything you need if your you really impaired. But it's expensive.

And now IT makes sense. It's because it's a limited audience. So they're not it's not just a phone that everyone's going to buy that can make him a mass scale.

But IT does have all the features you need that's a blind shell dot com. Anyway, incredible. I guess I really my my input on these glasses was correct. They are really a game changer, and i'm looking forward to more people kind of discovering the magic of them.

Are eighty eight rich? One to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one? The website is rich on tech that TV you want to sign up to be a volunteer for? Be my eyes.

I put the link in the show notes. Just hit the light, bob icon coming up. Another free ride is over.

Max is the latest to crack down on password sharing. This is rich on tech. Well, come back to rich on tech.

Rich, the mirror here, talking technology at triple rich, one or one. That's A D A seven, four, two, four, one, zero one. Well, like I like to say, the free ride is over this time, IT is max member is we called H B O.

max. Now it's just max, not to be confused with anything else out there. So disney and netflix have done this. now. Max is going to do IT starting gradually. So they said on the on the earnings call that password sharing restrictions will begin in the next few months with, quote, soft messaging to users.

What does that mean? That means when you log in and they kind of know that you're cheat in the system, they are going to say you sure you don't want to get your own account. You're going to go now as long as I use my friends, why not? I'll keep you on theirs.

Uh but next year they're gonna gradually put the um you know where eze the the device cripes, a little bit tighter and full implementation will be twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six. They believe that this is bobo raising his hand. He has a question, is from the class.

So let's say, I have my account. Okay, I go to my parents quite often. Yes, I watched to my account there.

Yeah how are they gonna gully that well, that's a good question. So I think that the original is an algorithm number one. But number two, it's it's going to be sort of a two factor authentication.

So if you're logging in at your parents house, IT may bug you every time. But because you truly own that account, they're to say, hi, we're to email your code and you're going to put that in from your email. So could be that pic of a deal I you but your friend over and you know somewhere across the U.

S. That's latching on your account. It's going to be after the third time, annoying. Feel you like really you got to get this code again for me. Some people won't a problem with that.

But I have noticed that there are, you know from what i've seen in my personal experience with family members, IT only comes down to whether the company actually wants to enable these restrictions like they know they know if you're not like. And it's very clear if you're logging into a TV, which is a fixed thing usually like you're not logging a TV around the nation. So if you're traveller and you've got netflix on your tablet or you're installing on a tablet or a phone, they kind of know that, okay, people travel.

But if they noticed that that phone that you've installed on only stays in a certain place that's not near your household, that's when they'll start you know of pushing the the password restrictions a little bit harder on that device. So again, this is not a perfect thing, but nobody's falling anyone here. These companies know exactly when people are sharing.

So subscribers that are sharing and that are part of that kind of sharing idea, they will be paying more or there will be some sort of plan that looks like where you can latch off on your own or or break off on your own. Max has one hundred and ten millions of scribers. They added seven million the last quarter.

Trying to think that what that's tribute to like do they have a good show or something? I don't know. They raised their Prices back in june twenty, twenty four.

But again, I say the free ride is over. All the streaming service started so cheap, so so cheap, and now they are definitely getting a lot more expensive. All right, all, let's see.

We've got a question here by email. Pat says, hey, does using your iphone eight plus as a hot spot for a macbook air m to harm your phone in any way? So off the top my head, not really.

I mean, it's really not a harmful thing for your phone, but there are some things to consider. Number one, your battery life. So if your phone is using host by IT, definitely crank to that battery a lot faster.

Um also because it's using more on your phone for that modem, it's gona get hotter. So that's number two. And of course, your data that's number three is really IT comes down to how much data do you have on your plan and are you going to a burn through that.

So I will tell you that it's interesting because if you look at the wifi, your work that your company reserves the right to pretty much look at anything you're doing on your computer. I am talking anything, even if it's personal, even if it's private, they can look at IT. And so there is this idea of people wanting to use a hot spot t at work off their phone because things are a little bit more private and you can check your email, you can do things like that.

And i'd probably recommend that if you want to stay more private at work, it's probably good idea to do that, you know. But just understand that if you're on your works wifi, they can see anything that's happening on that computer. Just imagine that they can see IT even if it's private, maybe if it's encrypted, IT doesn't really matter.

Sometimes they have a certificate, that trust certificate, that you accept when you get onto that wifi that says, hey, you know what, you give us free rain to anything on this device because it's all in the idea that they can monitor the network for anything that might harm the network. But anyway, all that all that to say that if you have have a hot spot, if you've got the the hot spot feature on your cell, one plan shirt, go head, use IT. There's nothing really that's this going to be a problem except for those three things I mentioned.

And by the way, all of the computers nowadays do a pretty good job of connecting to the device seamlessly. So for instance, on my computer, i've got a map, a computer, the iphone, when I am out of range of wifi and immediately pops up, if my phones nearby says, if you want to connect your iphone as a hot spot, it's very, very convenient. Windows does the same thing.

You can set IT up with your, your android devices as well. IT used to be when you got a tablet, you had to make a decision, like, do I want internet on this tablet? Do I want to five g connection? And quite honestly, like unless you are, you have a really specific use case for that ninety nine percent of people can just connect to their phone, which is incredible.

Much easier than paying for a separate plan or less stuff um and even you know how spot overseas has gotten easier. Just the idea of the the phone being the everything of the center of your tech universe has got a lot clear over the last couple years. So go head pat.

Use use the cell phone as your hot spot. No problem there. Just understand those those downsides.

Melvin from chess shire, where is that? Says i'm kindly looking for step by step information and how to remove my unwanted information on google. Great question.

The feature you are is called results about you. So if you google results about you, you can see this, a google feature that's called results about you. And what you do is you put your information, you sign up, you put your information in here.

So you say, here's my name, here's my address, here's my phone number, here's my email address. And I know that sounds scary to give google all of this information, but guess what, they've already got IT. Anyway, they know exactly this information.

You're just giving them that information so they can scan the internet to find when this information pops up. And you can get multiple email dresses. You can give multiple phone numbers. You can give I don't give variations on your name, but you can give more than information.

And so let's see so i've got looking at my yeah so you can give full name yet you can add interesting IT doesn't say I can add a name on mine, but you have, oh, I guess you can have one, two. I've got three names on here. And so I guess you can have up to three names that I will stand for.

And then you could have an address, you could have a couple addresses, you have a couple phone numbers, you could have a couple email addresses. So google results about you just you understand IT only. It'll scan the web.

It'll look for that information. If he finds a search result with that information, IT will email you or give you notifications, say, hey, you want us to take this down from our search results, not off the internet. That is very, very important to understand.

The information is still out there on that website. Google is just taking the link off of their search results. So when someone searches for your name plus address, they will not see that search result to that website that contains your information.

Your information will still be on that website. So if you want to take this step further and get IT off that website, you would then have to contact that website. Do I take down request or use one of these services like in cognitive um delete me and they will go and take these down.

But remember it's a game of waco for every site you take your information off of five more sites pop up but getting IT off google does disconnect that link. And a rich one or one, this is rich on tech. Imagine being a student right now, you're twenty twenty four the year without access to wifi.

It's a disadvantage. Millions of households actually still don't have wifi. So obvious reading about what eighteen t is doing and it's pretty incredible what they're doing is equipped twenty thousand students, so twenty thousand kids essentially in need with backpacks loaded with laptops and school supplies to get that connection.

You've got this generation of kids that are gonna be the the teachers and doctors, you health care workers. Ed gar max mella is his name of friends of the children in seattle to charity that eighteen and t team up with. He has a point, he says every backpack and laptop provided by our generous partners isn't just a gift, it's a lifeline. He says these tools lay the foundation for our youth, ensuring they have the same opportunities to learn growth and succeeds anyone else. So it's very important connecting changes everything.

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You can listen to the podcast, subscribe to the podcast version of this show, and listen to some of these selected interviews, plus, you can contact me, just hit the contact icon up at the top of the link with everyone to call IT, and that will send an email right to my inbox. Coming up this hour, we are going to talk about finding the best cell phone plan for you. Tech journalist rob pig oro has looked at all the different plans out there.

He has picked his favorites, and we'll explain how to choose the right Carrier and plan for your needs. We've been talking about the riband meta glasses all morning long. If you want to see my point of view here, you can actually see bobo just posted IT at rich on tech on instagram.

You can see what I see, what I do the show. We have a question from john and fall work about the meta bands. What's up?

hi. Thank you very much. Return here every week.

Thank you. I got my phone. Will this work for me? And visually impaired?

Great question. Yes, he does work with the iphone. That is a something that I took for granted when I talked about these.

But yes, IT does work with iphone and android. You do need a an APP from meta. It's called the metta view APP download that. And IT basically connects the glasses to your phones so that that way they can you tap into the answering the questions, sharing the videos, the files, the photos that you take on IT. It's also picked up and you could, of course.

change the options for the glasses.

Get great question. Let's see let's see if best by sales, best by meta roban. Let's see if they have I looks like they do have them there. So good. Yeah.

I know best. So they started three .

hundred dollars and depends, you know, obviously that's for the base model. So if you want like the transition lenses or you want you know special color, special feature, it's all gonna is different. There's various options and upgrades and things, but three .

hundred box of color trafic ideas, I don't care what color they are.

So did you say you're visually impaired? yes. So so you're you're going to look into the kind of A I features these glasses on.

oh, that's the that's the secret for me yeah, I can go to a grocery store and look at the shelf and they picked me out some cereal is something and IT says out there right there I be have my wife that they were happy then I could go shopping.

That's incredible. Well, you know I think again um for what I heard with to be my eyes, integration IT sounds like that just starting up and that's just brand new. But I think that's going to be a huge use case scenario for these glasses just based on the the reaction i've heard today. So john, check him out and just make sure you check that return .

policy on next article. I have the internet. I, my and my wifi is cellular. So as you discuss your next plans or the best plans, remember some people use internet of the cellular internet too.

So yeah, that's definitely yeah absolutely thanks, john. Appreciate that. yeah.

The solution internet is definitely a growing area of interest because the Carriers have come in with their their nice five g spectrum and they said, oh, we can do you. We could easily break this home internet. And so i've tested the one from horizon.

Don't think I tested the team mobile one atn t they it's very limited, apparently, where they have IT and it's I keep asking them to test IT and they have not let me test IT. So but it's a great option. If you live in a place where you can yet your internet over the air, I think it's a great option for you because it's less expensive.

I don't think there's any contracts you plugged in play as long you have a good five g signal at your house and they offer for IT to you. So for instance, from what i've heard with a nt because they don't want to compete with themselves, they're only sort of offering their att internet air in places that don't have wired internet three TNT. So again, they do not want someone to has fiber at their house for one hundred box to say, oh, I can get internet air for fifty box, i'll just go with that.

I don't need all speed of fiber. So I think the only downside of the the five g home internet is probably maybe the speed in the band with. But of course, that all depends on like what you need.

Ninety nine percent of people are just checking their email. They're just going on netflix. They don't really need a tone of stuff.

And so I think that that's probably a great option further, people. So thank you. Call they are john in falberg today.

What is the chance of this? We're another call from curtis. You're on with rich.

The outlook to the left call you had I apparently using t mobile home in a IT at my home. I also on your work IT works great, is dirty. You and they probably do serve your area, john. So you might want i'm looking to now you get I know who yourself from plan, who yourself from planning is, but they have great Prices .

to how much you pay .

for that mine and thirty five book from on.

Yeah, that's incredible. And this is the thing they started out. I think the Price have gone up a little bit, but they started out very competitive because they were really trying to, you know, take IT to the spectrum of the world.

In the frontiers of the world, the problem is rising to spot frontier. So the bigger these companies get, the less competition know, the less they want to compete because they don't need you. So I love that team.

Mobile came in with a very aggressive pricing for ison came in with very aggressive pricing. But again, it's it's depends on whether it's available where you are and whether it's a good fit for what you need. For me personally, I probably couldn't use IT just because i'm upload downloading a ton of big files every day for my TV stuff.

So but it's great if you know someone like my mom, especially she's paying a ton for internet and IT keeps saying maybe it's time to switch to one of these wireless provider. So anyway, check IT out. So what's the question, curtis?

yes. So my question is, uh, I recently want to vancouver and among the team mobile of 关于 they do offer a uh small Price to buy like five gates of data for about a week。 Uh, I found out a way to that extreme quickly. And um my thoughts are to just buy another plan when another country use IT for period time and you know take advantage of, you know the Price of the day offer. And I mean, I didn't IT the service wasn't bad once I was locked up to IT.

But you can go .

to five g okay.

great question.

What kind of phone do you have? Okay, well, so here's the great.

oh, wow, look at you pixel night, great phone. I love that device. And the good news about the pixel is that curtis joris set up, you don't need to buy a different phone.

You can do what's called an em. And so it's very seamless. And hate to break up my mom again, but he was able to fear this out. And no, no shade to my mom, but she's not a tech person. And SHE was going on an international trip, and I said, look, you can easily use this em.

And all have to do is tackle IT on, I said at all, up in advance remotely, by the way, and I said IT all up on her phone in advance. I said when you get to the country, when you just tagle this on and IT should work and shown off, SHE texted me that IT works and SHE goes in all the girlfriend and with none of their phones work except mine. That's why you got got a tech sun that knows what he's doing.

So with that, said curtis, what i'd recommend is just an ease him. And so this is what i've used in county. So here's sort of my thought. Okay, so you experience t mobile.

Yes, they include international on a lot of their plans, and it's great if you're just casually going to a different country maybe for a couple of days. You just need access to map your email or text. That's fine.

absolutely. Just stick with what you've got. It's including your plan. IT works great. Then the next level of ease is a lot of these plans, like the eighteen ties of the world, the various ons of the world they have where you get for ten dollars a day qazi unlimited. I don't think it's unlimited.

It's like a certain amount of data that you get on a daily basis for ten box a day. And again, you if that works for you and you're inner city for three days and you just want to pay thirty dollars to have your phone work the way IT works, absolutely do that one hundred percent. That's what i've done in a lot of countries when i'm there for just a couple of days on business.

Now some plans actually give you an allotment of those. I think they call like a mobile passport day or something like that, where you'll get that, let's say, your plan is one of the expensive premium plans. They may give you a day or two of those a month every month that you have your plan, they may stockpile some of those for you.

So the last time I went overseas, I had like ten international days, so I did not need to buy any em for that trip on my primary phone. So that's the second thing. Now the third thing, what I think is, is probably the easiest for a lot of people.

I just want a lot of data and don't want to have to pay a lot of money is what's called an em. And so the company that I like a lot is called arlo A I R A L O. I'll linked them up in the shower notes.

I use them around the world. And what you do is you just download the APP, you buy the em, and then you install on your phone with a pixel or an iphone or a samsung g. Any recent phone can handle multiple sims at the same time, so you don't even have to get rid of your old calling plan.

You just in solve this in seconds on your phone without even interrupting your regular plan. And so you can go when you get to other country, you can turn off your regular cell phone plan. There's a switch in the togo in the settings, there's togo switch.

You turn that off and then your regular plan will not be drawing any data or usage. And then you can talk go on the em. And now you've got this em that generally either has a lot of data or unlimited data depending on the country.

They're all a little bit different, but it's very, very easy. Arlo is one. All of flies, another H O L A F L Y.

There's a ton of mouth there. I've tried a couple of of them, but I like the area. Logs is straight forward.

It's simple. They were one of the earliest. But great question, curtis, and good job in the picture nine.

That is a fantastic phone. I gotto tell you about the deal they have on IT. They talk about that yet.

No, i'll tell you about the deal on the pixel lines coming up right here on rich contact, eight, eight, rich one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one. Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here.

Hang ging out you talking technology at tripoli. Rich, one of one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one or collar, told me he at a pixel nine from google. And I said that was a great phone. So if you are looking at a pixel, if you are toying with the idea of purchasing one of these devices, I always say when you are looking at a pixel device or a samsung phone, wait for some sort of deal or discount because these things are Priced to get discounted. And we've seen this over and over with the pixel and the samsung devices.

Apple devices are kind of weird because apple never discounts their own stuff, but sometimes third parties will, or you'll get like now they do that free phone up prey the rate and t or r or team mobile, which we all know is not really free. But if IT works out for you, fine, but the pixel nine, there is a great discount, a thirty percent discount offer this device. But you have to know where to find this.

And let me show you where to find IT. And it's I feel like this is probably the best deal we're going to see on this device throughout the holidays because thirty percent office is a reasonable amount. So if you have an android phone, you have to go into google play.

So open up your google play. And when you open google play up to the top, there's like some numbers. Those are your play points.

So tap those and IT brings you to uh an area worth has earn use or perks. And what you want to do is tap perks. And once you're inside perks, you'll see all little offers that google giving you.

And I tell you, there's actually one more that popped up today that was actually pretty good. So if you look down, IT says get thirty percent off select pixel devices. And so you select that and then i'll give you promote code.

Now this expires on december seconds. You don't have too much time to kind of make your decision, but that gives you enough, gives you four weeks. And i've been checking amazon because sometimes when these things happen, anytime is a discount on one method of, you know, shopping.

Amazon will notice that. And I will say, oh, we're gonna discount IT too. You don't even need to shop there. And so i've been watching amazon to see if they discount the pixel nine.

And I I noticed they did discount the standard pixel nine, which is now on sale for six hundred and fifty dollars regularly. Eight hundred, but actually I think thirty percent off that is Better, right? Eight times three, twenty four, seven, two, nine hundred and forty books off.

So it's still a Better deal to buy IT directly from google. Also the the pixel pro the pixel nine pro fold is also discounted on amazon, but the pixel 7 pro is not。 So uh, that's where you find IT.

And if you want to get that deal, just redeem and I will give you that code. And if it's not for everyone, apparently not everyone has access to IT, but a lot enough deal. Now the other deal i'm seeing here is a special offer from youtube.

Add free youtube and youtube music for four months for free. So that's another great deal. And I at last time I checked, and maybe you still have this one, but I found a deal for six months free of hou inside this little perks area.

So if you have an android phone, don't forget to check this little perks area, because they often have things that are really, really great and they're often sort of personalized just for you. So again, open up google, play up at the top, you'll see the points, IT perks and natural find all these perks. But google pixel nine at that Price is really, really good.

Cannot be combined with any other offers. Obviously, you could do a trade with IT though. So if you have a phone to trade in, you can still do that. Let's see here. Let's let's go to cragin demand cragg .

with rich.

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back to the show is on the more how is .

life in demand these days?

Not too bad. cold.

It's cold. I know I always forget how cody gets everyone else because you're in law and you know it's like fantasy land. Every day you wake up, you're like a sun still shining, is still beautiful. Oh, it's a little .

so you remember you?

Remember that the days of just not having to look at the weather forecast, right? So what's on your mind today?

I have A J D L. headphone. They all, they have a complete air OK. Now on on the book is said seventy hours.

Okay, they were one hundred and sixty dollars, but yesterday, and to deal here about that, they are here. But anyway, how how much playtime do I have on them? So IT says .

seventy hours of these wireless or they plug in.

they go to loop while so they're .

blue truth OK, I said seventy hours you get yes, wow O. I'm looking here, let's see here up to fifty hours of music. okay.

So yeah, I mean, look, these are these are over the air headphones, so they're probably going to give you a decent amount of hours. I'm looking at their website. Some of them were rated for fifty summer seventy.

But I think you're going to get a reasonable man of time. I know with me personally with the over the year headed phones I have, they last almost forever like i'd barely need to charge him ever. So I think you've got a good thing.

Go on drag. Thanks for the call coming up. We're gona talk about cell phone plan, which ones the best for you right here on rich on tech.

Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, the miro here hanging out with you talking technology if you want to get in on the phone lines, there are open. Eighty eight.

Rich, one to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero. One will get back to them in just a moment. But first we're got a great guest to talk about your cell phone plan and choosing the right one for you.

Rob peg oro writes for wire ter and other a all kinds of places. P, C, mag, fast company, but just came out of the new guide on the are the the best cell phone plans for wire cutter. So rob welcomed to the show.

So you've been doing this for a while.

You can keep in track cell phone plans for a while. What do you think is the biggest thing that you've seen change over the past couple years? If anything.

I actually realized this is I ve been doing this guide for just over ten years now. Wow, way before the way cut was a the new york times property. I mean, the biggest change obviously, is the rise of tea mobile.

When I started that they were, you know, can't have enough start really improving rapidly, but they had a lot of work to do. IT was a four Carrier market. Now it's three Carriers. You might have four of boost mobile continues growing.

I was I say, can can you explain that role quick? Like what is the deal? Boost mobile? They really have their own towers.

They do. It's this weird sort of bank shot the the government set up when they approved in mobile buying sprint. I said, okay, we want we don't want to see us be a three Carrier market permanently.

So we'll sort of couple together. One, you sprint gives some spectrum to boost you sell off that band to do the brand to dish network um which are you had a bunch of licenses and they've got a government deadline. They met to him so far to build out a five g network from scratch, which is really hard.

They've done pretty wet so far, but it's one these things, the ninety percent of the work is in the last ten percent of the coverage. So they have more work to do, but they ve been building up rapidly. IT seems to work well. I have not a chance .

to try IT out yet OK, so it's of the big but IT is available like is IT like so if I let's say and i'm guessing so because I know they had like their infinite network, which was like using like the other Carriers on guessing until their network is fully built out. They're kind of like .

we're lying on falling back. They met was discovered seventy percent of the us. population.

They met that last summer, right? Yeah, last july. I've done that. They back fill that with least coverage from a and t and t mobile.

And they say with that recover, we give people access to more towers and I don't own them than any other service ah that said, you have to look at what they are song carefully because they have very low Prices. But you know you ask me with the biggest changes, I would say how many different as Carriers have learned to spill and pronounce unlimited. Everyone was a limited, but you've got to read the find, print the asterisks, the double asterisk. There's so many different wrinkles they'll put in so they can differentiate, charge some people more if they need more of an unlimited thing and compete with other people. A little surprised by putting limits on their unlimited service.

So I guess my first question, by the way, I wanted to nerd out of quake about the boost mobile IT reminds me back in the day when sprint pcs was starting up and they had their own brand new network that was like completely digital. And I was so hyped to get on that network because I was brand new and digital instead of the old analog networks. But I remember IT worked in like literally driving around L A. Was like working like three places for the beginning .

spring spectrum lost in dc. I want to say that was i'm going to really take my of this was like nineteen ninety four, ninety five, a prior millennium.

that wow, that's that's a ww, okay, so that's okay. So the unlimited thing. So first off, how do people figure out their coverage? Like I always tell people, get a cell phone plan that works where you work and where you live really well. But how do you figure out what works there?

So obviously, that the Carriers have their own coverage maps and usually, we'll say we have awesome coverage, no problem. That's not always the case. I've certainly seen gas between like my I used team model myself and we'll say they have service in these places, but really they don't.

Worse, a very thin or patchy. And so you know you might be able to post a picture to instagram, but your video real is just not going to happen in a feasible time. Biggest thing is just first person's testimonials.

If friends of years, people, you know, people at work can say, yeah, this Carrier is great in this place, but in my vacation home, they're awful. That's a really valida point. There are a third party. Research you can do was just pooling around. There's an up called open signal from one of the companies that they do their own sort of testing and research of coverage in network performance. And you can zoom in on an area and see where people using the at sort of coverage they found through the APP and and you definitely seen there's as a town and real Virginia where a friend man has a house by the but just be big and um yeah the open signal map seems to be correct in saying the team of what is not right there and a rising a little bit Better.

Interesting because you've been there and it's kind of crowd source and you know from first person that doesn't really work there. okay. So how do you know if you should go to prepare? Because now we see all these prepaid plans, they seem just as good as the big Carrier plans. Like what's the declination like? Why had you .

decide two at one? Are you ready to just pay full Price for an unlock phone, bring them to the Carrier or the service usually prepaid their they're offshoot, their third parties. They're not actual network Carriers like a and T, T, marble of verizon.

Those are you phones, but IT will pride be, you know, second tear stuff, maybe older iphones. You won't get a google pixel on number two. You see how they define on that. They're much more likely to say, yes, we give you fifty gig as a priority data.

But instead of oh, your services is gone to get a little slower IT will be your service who would cut down to like one point five back of us per second, which back in one nine hundred and ninety five wasn't very, very fast. Now it's not or even like five hundred twelve pilates per second, which we're really getting back to the new dialogue speeds almost that much more likely. One of the thing I look at, if you travel internationally, prepaid services generally don't offer that. That's where if you buy the phone unlock, you can just use an eaon when you travel, otherwise you won't have service.

And I would add my wife, which I switched, not against her will, b SHE was like, why do I have to switch? Like, because you don't use any data. So I switch her, one of these cheap Carriers. And when there became a problem, like the same one, switched between two phones, everything had to be done over the up, like chat, which was kind of a nightmare. And so the customer service aspect of the idea of you're paying, you know, ninety hundred box a month, you get the idea of you get that benefit of walking into a store and saying, here, fix this or as if you're on on one of these smaller ones that don't have a store, you're going to be back and forth on chat messaging, which is not ideal.

Good point. What about let's see.

Okay, talk international. How much data do you think the average smartphone user needs you mentioned slows down. But like, do people really need an unlimited plan or what.

in many cases, they don't. And know the Better prepaid services, the ones that offer real saving sort of recognized that I think I would point to mint mobile, which used to be an independent company to mobile loans them now they have very cheap ices, especially if you just commit to pay for the years worth the service as a sort of the old contract coming back, at least you save money that way. Uh, so right, i'm gonna pull up by on phone right here. Let's jump into the android setting, see how much i've used over the last ork internet.

Now you.

where do google hide this feature?

Are you on on you on fifteen .

a pixel A A running into eight, fifteen?

Nice also.

let's see, so far have to start the building cycle. So one point forty nine and gigs used this month. Let's go take a look at a last month forth so .

where let's .

in gigs last month and like to stay the obvious. I not know all my phone a lot more than many other people. There was a lot of travel in that month, but fifteen fixes is below the limited data plans of a lot of prepaid services.

Some of that service, the data used that was tethering, which is something you may not get on some great big plans. And that's anything you to a chance for. How often are you gonna to use your phones being with and share IT with your tablet, your laptop via the mobile hotspot function on the phone? That's a given on, you know, the the heavily advertised unlimited plans that big, three many smaller services, prepaid brands, resellers, you don't get that or it's very limited or there's a speak woman on IT. There is some other way that the unlimited thing becomes limited.

right? okay. We ve got about a minute and I want to obviously, uh, we're talking to rob about the the wirecutters article, the best cell phone plan. So instead of having you go through what you found to be the best, you can go to the article to read that. But i'm curious for your take.

On these cable company regular plans, I get a question like rich, should I go to a spectrum mobile so I go to an expense mobile? Are they worth IT? And what's the catch?

The catch is you have to be the cable company's internet customer. There is sort of a customer retention play. But the thing is, the cable company seem to be running these services as well. Whats people complain about concave TV and broadband, but in customer satisfaction services, they love extended mobile.

okay. Well, that's good. And I know I know it's some it's a good deal. But again, it's like you have to stay a customer and that's .

going to keep you from cutting that cable broadband cord, which if contests is the only customer that there was given anyways, then you just need to see how the service works and again, check the pricing because extension mobile, one of these things where they say one limited but above a certain level that gets slowed down a whole lot, still useful but not fast.

all right? And tells about the article what else we're going to learn in IT. We're going to learn your top picks.

H ah we have picks for different areas. If you need a lot of data, if you need maximum coverage, if you're looking to optimize for Price, if you travel lot internationally, I talk about trends in the industry, how five years is finally become a reality and is basically a done deal. We're not letting up new frequencies, how we're moving on to satellite roaming, whether it's ency messaging or actual broadband, slower broadband coming to your phone from .

a santelli right, a peg oro, he wrote the wire cutters cell phone plan guide. I will link IT up on the website. Rich on tech dot T, V.

Rob, this was a pleasure. Thanks for joining me today. Eighty eight, rich.

One, one, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one. More rich on tech coming your way right after. Welcome back to rich on tech.

Ed is in a hunting ton beach. Ed wanted to comment on the the cell phone plan. So spring IT up.

Ed, what's good? Everybody, okay. So yes, um you're looking you you're discussing the the great payment plan are the right phone for you? 是， and I agree with you earlier, there is such thing as a free phone when you sign up with anybody, correct? I I am with metro P C S. I've been with them for darner fourteen years, right?

okay. And that was .

back when there was taboo to be with metro pcs. Yes, still with now I only pay one hundred dollars a month for four phones and they're all iphones. They are they do the same thing years does that or anybody else?

Um memory, all that gait stuff you guys talk about, but the only the only nitch IT is you got ta buy your own phone each whatever couple years when you from wears out right right. But I mean IT was one hundred dollars when I was just me in my wife and my kids were babies and now there grown in high school and I bought two phones for them. It's still a hundred bus because I have the same contract I kept. I mean, come on, who who have the same contracts of.

right? okay. I see what you're saying are saying because on the big plans like the rise, like for me personally, like I just had to switch my entire plan because I got an email saying, oh, we're going to raise your rates by this amount or you can switch your plan to this because I was on an older plan. And if you get one of those phones right.

exactly.

And then if you get an iphone for free quote on, you ve got to change that. Whatever the latest unlimited plan is, they want you on that. Whether I remember when metro was really being heavily promoted by team mobile, when they bought them, they were adding, just toss in lines like they were, know, the just three lines all .

over the place is the metro S, T, mobile people with all my friends, it's kind of like a taboo o question, when you have somebody, hey, how much do you pay for your self on bill each month?

Yes, it's up there with voted .

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want to bring up in a dinner party of my .

mom SHE has I moved her onto SHE used to have cricket, now she's got mid mobile and i'm not kidding he tells all of her friends how much he pays. He pays one time a year. I think it's like three hundred box to the whole year.

And SHE has the same service, same stuff. And you mean obviously runs on two mobile as well. And her french like non I I have a nineteen of our plan for there's no way could .

be the same like it's the same. I check your phone can do what mine can do.

right? Yeah.

yeah he does everything. And when I guess, well, trying to bring up a point is when you're talking about the right plan for you, of course, you want the cheapest plan, but you don't want you to change. You want you don't want to, to get more expensive.

So I I knew what a long time ago, as long as I keeps this contract going and so you can't miss a payment, there is no Operators earn. Anybody to call, who cares? There's google. But as long as you keep paying your pay payment, each one you might build does not change. Yeah, when I buy in phones and bring him in or buy them from them, I know it's that's an expensive day, but IT happens once in a while, but my i'm still paying in one hundred hours a month. That's that's what important .

yeah you're saving over the long term, and most people don't want to do that math of the long term versus the initial. And thanks for the call there on hunting the beach really appreciate at a and by the way, metro is now for four lines, one hundred and seventy five bucks a month.

So one hundred and eighty for the first month and that includes some of them to think you're saving like seventy five dollars a month for for those four lines times twelve. That's nine hundred boxy year minimum. So that's a free iphone right there.

Eighty eight rich one a one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two four one zero one talked about this a little bit earlier in the show. But bitcoin, if you happen to have some, you might want to take a look, your account, because IT is up, up, up, up, up. We talked about bitcoin extensively on a recent show member.

I went to that bitcoin L A conference. And now bitcoin, there are a lot of people that are very excited about bitcoin because of the election, a of president president elect trump and his pro crypto stance. So the market is very optimistic.

And in the past month, bitcoin is up twenty seven percent. In the past week, it's up ten percent. The past day is down one percent.

So no. But people, I think what's gna happen here, we're seeing I this has got to be almost an all time high. We're seventy six thousand dollars today.

apparently. IT reached seventy seven thousand on friday before the weekend happened. But people are buying this in the retirement plans as well.

You can buy bitcoin. Number one, you don't have to buy a whole coin, right? You can buy a portion of a coin.

So for instance, if you is no way you're going to put twenty six thousand, maybe you would, I don't know, but there's you you buy a portions. You can say I want to buy ten dollars a bitcoin. IT will figure out the math and give you ten dollars.

You want to buy one hundred dollars a bitcoin. You do the math. So there's various APP I can let you do this something like a cash APP, a paypal APP. There's a million coin base in.

There are so many ways to buy crypto um again, from what I got from that um that bitcoin conference I went to, people are really hit on bitcoin but not so much to the other coins out there. Couple years ago, we saw a lot of coins being promoted and a lot of digital currency being promoted. Now we're mostly seeing the focus on bitcoin because this is where most of the emphasis in the crypto a world.

So again, a lot of analysis predicting that this could go up to one hundred hundred thousand dollars or more by the end of the year. And I will go back to my original email for my friend, who told me back in many, many years ago, this is, let me, let me read this very quick, putting this on your calendar. This is in twenty thirteen.

There's been a lot of bit coin news. Price just went to a new high over three hundred per coin. Last time I email ed you with one twenty five, it's growing like crazy.

One hundred, twenty five, three hundred. Now it's at seventy six thousand dollars. What a difference ten years makes.

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Explain that whole thing. Then there's this idea of a third of A I but what about private AI? There is a private and uncensored A I chatbot.

I mean, that's intriguing, right? So I had to check that out. I've got that linked up in the ono or as the in the newsletter as well.

And then by way of my brother Justin, who's been on the show, he sent me a link to a open source image generation, one of these AI image generators. So there's a website hugging face and they've got all these like AI models and things, but this one's pretty cool. You use the latest AI stable division to to generate images you can put in the problem.

You don't have to sign in or anything. So it's pretty good. Anyway, it's all on the newsletter, rich on test that TV just just hit the first thing on the page and you'll see IT.

And don't forget to leave your email address says these smart classes change my P O. V. It's all about those medas. Oh, oh yes. I want to mention this too.

Actually I might mention the feedback g, but I talk about the the APP that I used to email myself, and I got an email about that ironically, and I talk about how I switched, actually one of the viewers or listeners that emailed me about their APP. I think it's Better than when I picked. So I talk about that as well.

Eighty eight, rich, one to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one zero one. This hour we've got dancer in front of the show has been on before, used to work with him at seen he is going to talk to us about A I video clones and also he he actually heads up sort of the content creation at micros. Remember we talked about micro center a couple couple weeks ago how they ve got the physical stores and all that stuff.

So might pick his brain a little bit about that. Let's go to herbal in franco san california. Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Richard. Uh, a quick question. I have a program that a goes through the computer and find duplicate OK and called germany too. I think it's by, uh, yeah yeah. I went through and I didn't have any idea had that many for this, but i'm just picking pictures. I take all the ones that I would like to get rid of s but i'm afraid to I don't know enough about the program to commit to get IT of a little gig bice of the memory. Well, okay.

So first off, so germany, I to know IT very well, really like that program. I use IT have used IT in the past and it's it's great IT does what IT said IT does typically IT chooses the file that is either newer or smaller or something like that. Is that what you've noticed?

No, I didn't look into IT enough. I grant that at that is a concern. Ant, if I have a picture in two different files, what IT takes out of the right one.

but I don't know.

Yeah usually typically uses smart to kind of figure out like IT IT goes you know that has a little rules that are built in so it's going to say like, let's say, if two, the same pictures and IT looks at the information on them and says, okay, this one smaller so clearly this is some sort of thumbnail or string shot or copy that you made of this picture 啊。 Also 的 one is newer。 So we know that there's an older version of IT that's bigger.

So it's gonna go through and choose typically the one that he thinks IT should keep. And IT typically does that using no, just is smarts that are built into IT. So that's that's probably was going to happen.

Now the other thing that I would say is any time you are going to make substantial changes to a collection of photos, you want to make sure that you have a backup before you do that. And I know that that's tRicky. I know that that can be complicated by if you just get a hard drive and use time machine on your mac, the are they stored locally on your mac?

Uh, yeah, I, I, I, I do that. I have I I double back up on an external harder, then you're good to go.

Then I think you're fine. As long you have a double back or any sort of back up of these pictures, I think it's going to be fine.

And that's that's the main thing is that any time you're making large substantial changes to any of the files on your computer, you just want to be sure that a you're doing IT slowly and method ally, you don't want to just speed through this and you're making sure you understand you know the prompts that come up in things like that. And with german, I I believe that IT puts them in like a the trash first, and then you have to empty the trash. So you, I would probably leave in the trash for the next couple of days and then see if you need one.

But I will tell you one time, harper, that I deleted a whole bunch of pictures one time out of my google drive, and I realized that IT was my kid, and like, like some of the kid, like my kid, and he was born like, they were all gone. I was like, oh, no, this is. And so thankfully, I had a back up.

I went back. I pulled all those pictures back. But my point is, I can happen.

It's like once they're gone, you're looking at you're like, only this is not a good thing. So but german I is a great program. They actually make another one for the iphone called.

They used to make the version of this gami for the iphone. Now make one call, clean my phone, which is also for the iphone. I can kind of find the duplicate and things, but um yes, great program IT does what you need.

The other one I like that does the duplicate is reo R E M O. And you've got a version of that I believe for looks like I know windows and they also have won for mac as well and the iphone. So these are great programs.

Germany, I remo, all good programs. But again, before you make any those changes, please just make sure you have a back of dunn windows. Just use the built in backup.

Get a hard drive back up your computer if you're on a you know the mac side of things, just use time machine and if you're doing anything that's like working with your cloud stuff. People, I took a while for people to realize you delete a picture on your iphone to save space. It's also deleting IT at a eylan d.

So just be aware of that. You know when you're deleting things, you have to be very aware of just how much you're doing and how permanent that deletion is. Thankfully, with most of these cloud services things going into a deleted folder where they stick around for a good thirty days before they actually get deleted.

So on iphone, if you want to look into that, you can open up your photos APP. And if you scroll, I mean, just change the way photos works at such a mass. But if you scroll down, you'll see where says utilities and recently deleted.

So if you go into that album that you're going to see the recently deleted. I'm just saying you if if you're. I just, I see that the evil uses of all this stuff, like, if you you anyway, my point is that d be the first place I looked on a phone.

If I had to, like, kind of see what's going on with this person in their phone, thankfully apple got hit to that. And now if you notice, there's a little lock next to the recently deleted that's because let's say you grab someone's iphone and you're like, oh, I bet I can find some interesting stuff and y're recently deleted, they now locked that down. So you need to actually use face idea or pass code to open that up because they figured out that yeah, people provide delete some stuff they don't want other people to see.

Now, if you're in google photos, which is what I use for my photos, same thing. If you are going to your collections, then you can go and find your trash in there. So if you go google photos collections and then trash a IT takes, he says items will be permanently deleted after sixty days from trash.

So that gives you enough time to do something like clean out your system ago. Oh, wait, where's that picture I just deleted? Oh, there at this.

Okay, you couldn't restore those pictures easily. So that's the way to do IT. Great call, herbert.

Thanks for the question there. Let's see. We have have time to go. Another question, not really we got, might have to wait till after the break.

Eighty, rich, one or one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one zero, one. A Timothy Jacob huts in in this in how to geek, the website says you can skip paid anti virus in twenty twenty four. This is an argument, and i've heard this idea before that what's built into windows is probably good enough nowadays.

But let me give you his argument. He says windows defender, which is microsoft built in antivirus, basically gets perfect or near perfect scores in security test. So he says the built in modern security on devices like windows, IOS, android and mac has pretty much comprehensive protection without a lot of extra cost um and most common malware threats are already blocked by email.

They blocked dangerous attachments built in firewalls and the default system protections that you have on windows, IOS, android, imac. But here's the thing that I would say with the caviar. So yes, if you want to save money, you can use the microsoft bilton anti virus windows defender, just make sure its up to date.

But here's a thing, this only really works. A if your software is up today and current. So if your mac software, your windows software, your iphone, your android are all up to date, that's number one.

You have have those latest security patches. Number two, this does not necessarily protect you against you. So i've mentioned this a couple weeks ago why I think chrome is a great browser to use, because IT will scan the links that you click and IT will tell you in real time. Hey, this is a fishing link. But the problem is people still fall for this stuff on a daily basis and that no anti our software can really protect you from that.

So if your click and links, you're clicking links that you get, your text messages or in your email, you're put in persons information, you're logging into websites, when he says, hey, a problem with your payment, you can still get caught even if you're using these built in anti virus or the building protection. So be careful, understand what fishing is and how they're trying to get you. This is rich on tech.

Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich to mirror here. Hang ging out you talking technology, the website for the show, rich on take dot T V coming up this hour.

We have the feedback G A little bit later on and a dena roman, formally of senate now with microsite, he is gone to talk about creating an affordable A I video clone. I guess he did this himself and has some thoughts on that alley email for the show. Rich on tech dot T, V.

Got an email here from a Michael, from darryl hay rich on a seventy one year old and technology chAllenge that I still use my flip phone that search me very well. I try to listen your show whenever I can while washing the car, walking around the house. I find your hosting and educational qualities to be very good, and I do learn things from your your guest.

Well, I could just end the reading right there. Thank you, mike now, but i'll keep gone. I guess he has a question.

My delle desktop with windows ten serves my basic needs, web surfing, ebay forms and streaming TV. Microsoft keeps encouraging me upgrade to windows eleven, but I believe if I had broken, don't fix IT. Will I eventually be forced to upgrade? Keep up the great work, rich.

And thanks for not only educating us, but being entertaining as well. Wow, entertaining. You hear that bobo, entertaining.

We are entertaining people. Ah, he's being nice. I was auto draft.

He just used that like auto, like the gmail helped me right? H right. And I see male rich like button m up.

So ll answer my question. Name is getting. Thank you, Michael. okay. So here is the deal with windows.

And I totally understand you're saying now I used to be the person and I still lam where I like to upgrade. The second is available, right? Like I want the cutting edge. And most of the time, that's just because i'm a nerd of a geek. E I just like to have the latest, greatest and of course, I want to test IT out.

But I think when IT comes to something like windows eleven um why do you need to do that? I don't think you do, especially with the things you're telling me you do with your computer. So yes, it's in windows best interest to get people upgrade and upgrade early and if there will be a deadline that you need to upgrade by.

And that's october teeth twenty twenty five, that's called end of support, end of life. That means that after that date, windows will no longer support your system. And like we just talked about, that means no more security updates, no more bug fixes. But here's the catch. They just announced that for extra thirty box, you can extend that by a year.

So Michael, you're looking at at the very least, if you don't feel like changing anything on your computer, you can use your current windows ten for thirty bucks are all the way until, well, you can use IT for free until october fourteenth, twenty twenty five for thirty dollars. You can use that all the way until october fourteen th, twenty twenty six. So you're looking at two more years from now.

No big deal. I think that for what you need, if your computers working, like you said, if I am broke, don't fix that. You don't need to upgrade if you want the windows eleven stuff.

It's a little bit tRicky because clearly your computer supports IT, so that's fine. But the stuff that windows eleven offers is mostly the AI stuff. So I mean, if you want to play with that stuff, find the copilot stuff built in.

But I don't really know if you need to um you're not going to get a substantial change in the things that you're doing because that sounds like most of the stuff you're doing is just web browser brace, web browser based. So great question and just ignore that prompt until you have to. Let's go to mark in willand hills, mark and willand .

hills on the line. Welcome to the shop. But I been listened all this about plans and phones. I had to tell you that um I was gonna go to visible from my mobile plan but meant and get a unlimited uh data but meant matched the Price so people like meant you can approach someone selves and probably will do some. As far as my favorite phone ever, IT was a yoda three.

I know all the security problems with that, but my friend who are required special forces, uh, officer, showed his unplug by a eric print is a fantastic phone, is nine hundred and fifty box, you know, is not cheap. But they have voted everything and everything on their APP stories voted. Plus, when you turn your phone off.

it's off feature.

why? But I just thought i'd share that with your listeners.

Yeah, it's interesting the the new phones actually with with both iphone and android, if you've got the latest Operating system, they may turn off, but they're still finding with the fine my system. So if you look at the pixel and you look at the iphone, things don't really go off on those. Do you have you heard of the graph in graphing? O S, no.

So this is like you can put this on your phone. I guess it's like a, you know, it's an android Operating system that is completely secure and private and mobile. But the problem is since that does not have a lot of connections to the google play store, it's going to be a little tRicky to run things.

So that's like if you really want like to turn any phone into like a private phone, anyway, I was going to tinker with that. You just see that is all about so sounds like that's what that the other unplug phone you're talking about. Privacy look, privacy is going to become more important, more more important in this world. Ah okay, now now we burn up all our time.

Now that we burn .

up all your time, did you actually have a question really in a minute? yeah.

Um I have a lot of files and folder, I mean thousands of files and there are on various um external hard drives. And my laptop is any free software out there that would helpme organized on my step and boil IT down to one version so that I can both have that and you know a copy, of course. Oh.

that's a great question. I mean, what I would do is probably just dump p everything onto like get one drive and dump everything onto there, not one drive like just one drive and dump dump everything in that should take care of some of the duplicate. I'm trying to think if there's a across the board, I can't think a one off the top of my head, but the good news about this shows that someone else may have a suggestion.

But you're saying one APP that can just go through everything and consolidate. I know drop box has dash, but that may not be exactly are looking for. That's more for search.

Think about IT mark coming up next. We're going to talk about AI cloes. Well, come back to rich on tech. Rich, the mirror here, hanging out with you, talking technology at eighty eight. Rich, one to one, eight, eight, eight, seven, four, two, four, one, zero, one.

Before the break, we had a mark in willand hills wanting to consolidating all of his files, and he needed a good APP to help them do the ATS. Looking online, I found one for mac called space drive, which sounds that might actually help him out, he says, designed for creators horders and the painfully disorganized. I think that one sounds like you might fit the bill for him, depending on what side of a macros dows sees on joining me. Now, by the way, if you want to comment on that or give me a suggestion, you can go to the website rich on tech that TV and hit the show notes and email me that joining me now is a dan acron editor in chief at micro center. Dan, welcome to the show.

Not good to be with you, rich.

So then, and I worked the other seen at many moons ago, he is now the edit and chief at explain what that means because we wrote a love letter to microsite a couple weeks ago saying how much we love the idea and in shopping, in store shopping experience. And what does that mean your editor and sheets are explained? Oh.

that's so great because after like twenty plus years in traditional tech media, working at, seen and being the enter chief of this model I have created by microsite, which great organization is a serious about one thousand, eight thousand and nine stores, we get all your computer stuff and TV and three deep printers. But really, if you're building a computer from scratch and need all the grashus cards, hard to go there.

And you hang out our community. And they wanted to start doing the new site because they saw that a lot of the traditional techmeme, a going on a business laying people off, really downsizing. And I said, you know what, let's just hire some experts to get in on this, so they hire me.

And then I even turned, hired. Many, many rich of our former colleagues had three answers, is basically a really seen that. And we do reviews. And five, we talk about A I O educated the holiday shopping season. So it's really a tech new site that just happens to me under .

the so if you go to microsite dot com, is that the MC news? Is that what .

you tap IT is? And it's also like microsoft news.

Microsoft news, right? There you go. So let's say, let's talk about some news.

First off, before we get to the AI clones that you test IT out, playstation five pro launched this week, seven hundred dollars. What do we need to know about that? The playstation five pro.

really interesting. They did this last generation of which to be a sport pro. And the x pose one x where, before the whole next generation, they had in in between, with slightly more powful graphics, more memory, keep up because stone change. And three or four, five years later, he sees gaming pcs are so much more advanced.

You need kind of a catch up in the P, S, 5 pro。 Is that catch up? Basically, if you play P S, five games, a lot of the time we're going to see there's two graphics of things like fidelity, which means a lot of special effects and tracing and does but like three frames per second performance, which strips a lot of the special effects out and gives you sixty friends per second.

And the P S 5 pro because it's got a new GPU and more and and more storage space。 IT basically gives you the sixty frames and the higher and graphics. And in some games, IT really makes a difference.

We were just testing out a game on the one of the consoles, and my kid came up against that screen. Like which one should I choose on my I don't know. You wanted to Better graphics? sure. You want to the faster game play. I guess that's the the main thing, right?

yeah. And most people go for the faster gaming. And Frankly, that's the right choice a lot of the time because you want things feel fluid, but you also don't want to miss out on, you know, retracing.

And those old are reflections and the cool water effects and the lighting. So something like the P S. 5 pro and i'm sure we'll be an experience something similar not that far in the future。 You get have the best of both worlds. And even though it's more expensive, you know seven hundred dollars is still less than buying a big gaming P C, which could cost you twelve hundred hundred, two thousand dollars and more in order to get that frame rate. Really cool visual combination.

So would you recommend someone that has the play station five to get this and trade in the old one or what? Who do you expect to?

The trading is not a bad idea. If you have A P five and you love IT, I don't think you're really need to step up to this. But if you're getting into IT now and you're like, oh, i'm going to go buy A P S, by finally, you should get the pro because it's gonna a long ger life span than the regular P S. Five or if you have one and you're like, oh, i'm going na get a second one for the again or the bedroom or something, move the original back there. Get approve for your living OK.

I'm looking at the trade in Price on the PS five. It's about two hundred, hundred and fifty dollars. So that's not too bad.

You too bad. But if you're happy with the p five, you don't need to upgrade. But if you're getting into the platform now or if you want to, like add to another room, that's a good excuse to order to get the problem.

okay. So in one of your latest articles for microsite, you experimented with creating an A I clone of yourself. So why did you why do you want to do that?

You, since we started talking about A I A couple years ago, one of the topics that keeps coming up is people doing deep fakes, people making A I clothes of themselves here. Can you trust video? Can you trust audio? And those tools have become available to just everyday folks like doing me.

And I spent some time thinking about how we would create a clone of myself that could do video, that I could have my voice, have my face, even have my style in terms of writing and country of content. But IT was never really there. IT was too expensive to complicated and work wrong enough.

Finally, the spring IT really started to come together, and I signed up with one APP called that. Hey, jen, that's a cloud. A, I, M.

And you give him some audio, audio, video when IT makes us one of you and just a video OK, the voice is so. So then I signed up with another called a living lab, and they do a good voice cloning. And then I could at the two of them together.

So I give my script one APP and IT as the video, and pulls in my voice from the other APP and that IT says, hey, you've got a video, something that looks like you reading the script. And you know, if you do me very well, maybe like you do rich, you would be able to tell IT was a really me, but the average person on on the street, I can make a pretty convincing case that that's a real wow. And what so what .

what's your conclusion here? I mean, this is something that you would use for content creation or IT more just to show like this is just the beginning of we're going to see people that we don't even know if they're really or not.

Yeah, I had two reasons I want is to do this. One was to see what you could do and how inexpensively you could do. IT the article I did on this A I yourself under fifty, because if you want to play around with IT for a months, hey, jane was like twenty and nine dollars a months. A little land was like five dollars a months in the basic planner, ten dollars a month for a more advanced plan. I ended up doing a little two and a session with my virtual self, and I use a custom GPT I made and ChatGPT that, retraining all my writing.

So I ask you a couple of questions, like, should I play stars out? Or or a spacemen too? Or what kind of power supply do I need for for a gaming this top of the forty, eighty and video car? And and he gave me some good answers, and I had my AI face read them out and do the face cream.

So it's showing that you can do that, uh, but it's more to show people that you should be careful what you watch, what you would listen to, you know, be a smart consumer of media. But then I did find a practical use for IT. I took articles I wrote, and I may took talk to the is out of them by basically running to be all in the background, giving the article to my A I self to read, and forty pop up, end of myself in the bottom, read in the article, the riding always good, the voice always sounds good, it's my words. And then you got a crick tic tog video or a youtube shorts video based on the articles that rope that I wouldn't have time to do a break out video up necessarily .

ah is so wild alright, if you want to see this, you can go to the website microsite. He then has got IT linked up. Let me see here.

The article is titled how I turned myself into an AI video clone for under fifty dollars. And I got to say the video clone looked pretty good. I was impressed.

So it's pretty good. The first version I did, I use just the healthy Cameron. My phone IT was okay. The second version that used the rear camera on the phone is really good, natural light, and that was a lot Better. The third version, I went to the microsite studio and they the inner studio with the professional camera and professional lighting. And the Better material that you give these a apps, the Better version of yourself that you're onna.

get back. wow. And i've also seen you can make a head shots. You know, people use these programs to make head shots of themselves as well.

And it's like, you need like a couple pictures and I like, makes you look like the best possible you're ever looked in your life. Like, how did they do that? Oh, it's ai.

It's really funny. Yes.

very fun. Again, thanks so much for joining me today. Really appreciated the the website micro center dot com and tell me again, it's that that that news if you want to go .

directly story .

and and very exciting, very, very cool. And I love that you're doing this this new site there is so cool. And I we love microsite because I was I was in new jersey and I visited IT and I talked about how much I liked IT on the show.

And then people were email of me. They said, you know, you didn't have to go as far in jersey. We have one .

to touch in california, new ones in miami and charlie and set a clara coming next year. And what's the number .

one thing people buy there when they going is that the computers right now.

it's like a lot of graphics cards and C, P, U. And I bet next year, when we have the next generation that cards, you can see a huge run on that, right?

Dann acr, editor and chief at micros center. Thanks so much. Joined to me to appreciate IT.

thanks.

All right, coming up. Oh, we are opening up the feedback g plus. I'm going to tell you why various on is giving you a little extra time to switch your messaging out.

This is rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich, tomorrow here hanging out you talking technology.

What are my favorite things to do every week? Also listen to one of my favorite songs right now. Good job and plane at the end, bobo.

So before we get to the feedback, which is just bursting open this week, let me tell you about variations on message plus member. We talk about this a couple of weeks ago. Various on messages is going away and they want you to switch to google messages.

And that was supposed to happen on november seventh. But guess what? The deadline has been extended to the summer knife. So if you want to keep rise and messages for just a little bit longer, you do have a couple more weeks, but I think you should probably switch to a different APP because this is going away under summer night th, unless they extended again, but then you're really roll in the dice.

But the reason why they want you to switch from rising messages to google messages is because you'll get Better a crossed messaging between iphone and android. Basically, you'll get the upgrade to rcs, which means you can send your android friends and your iphone friends larger quality pictures and videos, and you'll see the read receipts in the typing indicators. It's just a much Better, Better solution.

Let's open up the feeding bag. These are the emails, the comments and the questions sent to me every week on the website, which contacts that T, V. have.

Contact leo rights. Hey, rich, just had a chance to listen your last podcast. And I have a couple of notes. Rear dash camps were great through the rear windows, but I haven't found a tape that stays put.

When the sun beats down, even heavy duty heat resistant take melts off, i'd suggest mounting IT on the package shelf or another part of the car. Also, he said the email me, APP is only available for IOS, but i've used IT a long time on android and it's free. Keep up the good work.

So I had to look this up because I use email me on IOS and then I use email myself on android. Email me is available on android, but it's not the same APP that's on IOS. So I did check out the email me and I gotta say, leo, I actually switched over because I like IT.

It's cleaner. It's simpler. Er, it's easier. IT is free with the one caveat that if you want to change the subject line, you have to pay.

And that's actually a smart thing by the developer, because for me, the way I filter all of my notes to self is with the subject line. I put the hashtag in IT. So I will be paying the whatever is three dollars to to upgrade this.

But email me, i'll link IT up on the showing. Tes, thanks for the suggestion. It's it's rare that I switch an APP that quickly.

Terry writes in havers. Love watching you on TV and also on social media. Your sessions are helpful. I have total AV on my desktop. Some years ago, I took advantage of an introduction tory Price.

Each year, I called total a view and explain on a senior, on a fixed income before asking if they can help with the Price. Much to my surprise, they are willing to assist. Recently, we agreed to fifty nine instead of one fifty nine from my renewal.

Few days later, they offered twenty nine, which I accept IT. I verify that this low Price was legitimate by calling their official number. Good job, Terry. And um yes, I think that the less you pay for this, probably the Better they will get you on a high renewal rate if you don't pay less. And I find that this is a good thing to do with anything that you're paying.

Always call in because mostly even with doctor's officers, just say, hey, is this the best deal I can get? Is this the best Price you can give me? I've called doctors bills and they literally just by asking them will be like, oh, here they'll take fifty books off or whatever.

So same thing with all these things. Just call in if you if you want to get a Better Price. Stephen from orange rights in you might be interested in this.

I always pay cash at brick mortar merchants. Recently, a trader joes, i'd pulled my wallet from my pocket in the cashier, handed me my receipt. Wait, I hadn't paid yet.

Turns out the reader had detected my credit card through my thick leather wallet. Management said this can happen. Stephen, i'm so glad you wrote me this because I have actually experienced this myself, specifically at trader joes.

I don't know what their systems are, but they are the strongest rfd NFC with everyone NFC and is the strongest NFC antenna i've ever seen in my life. I pull up my card and immediately he goes dup, and I said, wait, what I even tap yet and it's happened several time. So thankful.

Ly, I use a debit card most of the time, and I still wants that. I still wants that pin number, but if use a credit card yet, just going to authorize IT instantly. A lot of people like these R F I D blocker wallets.

So a lot of the wallets i've seen have that built in just for this sort of protection. So there's a company named silent pocket that makes these things and others. But you can just look for any R, F, I blocker technology.

My wallet actually has that. Now my new wallet does have that. And so I I do like that feature because you just never know.

And it's only happened to me, trader joes, for some reason, but I love that place. So i'm fine with that. And IT is me buying IT. So there you, Allen, from a brookline mass.

Accuseth listens to the podcast, he says, listening to your november second podcast about the color with google chrome quote, performance issues, I tried your suggestion to perform a settings reset by the same issue on my macbook pro. IT took about sixty seconds and I kept my bookMarks. I just had to reactivate some extensions like bit warden and reload into your website, into websites.

Thank you for your knowledge while Allen, this is what I love about this show. You you listen to IT and you're learn and you you hear things to say I didn't think about doing that and IT helps you out. So that sounds like the person at all, the different random things happened on their chrome.

They did the settings reset and IT took care of IT did the same thing for you. How let's see dawn rights in a computer upgrade story. After my laptop started showing its age, I tried switching to a mac mini on a french recommendation.

Despite his help, I struggled with the different interface, so I donated IT to my church. Later, my tex savy friend josh found me a small form factor PC for just twenty five dollars. what? After setting IT up, it's working perfectly.

A great alternative to big desktop towers. Two lessons learned. There are affordable solutions out there, and having a knowledgeable, helpful friend is invaluable.

Keep up the great work, rich. It's helping all. Thank you. And finally, read from the bay area listens on the podcasts.

Rich, just a note of thanks for your segment on us mobile for cell service. I've been an atn t customer for years, paying almost a hundred bucks for two lines. After your information, I switched to U.

S. Mobile, where i'm now and horizons that worked with unlimited calls and text was five gigs a month for twenty three dollars a month, no extra fees. The transfer is easy.

I wish i'd done IT years ago. Thanks for all your good work and sound advice. Thank you.

read. I do appreciate that. And that's what I aim to do. Help you just know about this stuff.

At the end of the day, you have to make the decision on where do you want to switch or whether it's worth IT, whether you want to do something. But that's why I am here to explain this stuff that is going to do IT. For this episode, the show, you can find links to everything I mentioned on the website.

Just got a rich on tech that TV. You can find me on social media. I am at rich on tech. Before we go, I do want to mention one thing, Robin bert luci, program director at caffe, one of the the primary stations we are on here with this show, is leaving cafe after twenty four years there as programme director.

And I have to tell you, Robin, instrumental in getting me here to do this show, Robin was an amazing mentor. I don't know how he did IT, but he seemed to listen to every word that came out of my mouth. Robin, over the years has give me so much, so many opportunities, so much advice, always there for me.

And I am going to miss her so much, because even though you didn't directly oversee this show, SHE was always there to tell me what I did right, what I did wrong, what I could do Better. And it's just one of those people that you meet in your lifetime that's just quite incredible and has an impact not only on you as a person, you as a employee and you as just a human, just won an amazing person. Robin, I will miss you, thanks to everyone else who makes the show possible.

Kim on phones. Bobo, on the board. My name is Richard to miro. I will talk to you real soon.

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