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American Airlines adding free Wi Fi to their planes with a small catch. At and T customers, your auto pay discounts are changing. You could lose half for all of it depending on how you pay. And Microsoft says they've blocked four billion dollars in fraud attempts in the last year alone. And AI is making scams faster, smarter, and harder to spot. Plus your tech questions answered.

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I'm rich Demiro and this is rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. Email is also an option. Just go to rich on Tech dot tv hit contact guests. This week, we've got Lauren brow On from Apple, Apple's environmental product manager. She'll talk trade in and recycling. At Apple stores, you can turn in old devices the right way and what really happens to all the stuff inside of them and the gadgets themselves. Then later in the show, We've got Menca sang Vi, author of Your Best Digital Life, Use Your Mind to Tame Your Tech. She will talk technology and how to take control of your screen time. Well, this week we saw two major lawsuits against big tech companies. Early in the week, it was the FTC against Meta, saying its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were strategic moves to eliminate competition. And then later in the week, it was the Department of Justice winning a case against Google, ruling that the company illegally monopolized the digital advertising market. They found that Google's control over both the buying and selling of online ads harmed publishers and consumers. And you might remember Google was under fire earlier last year. Back in August, another court ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining its dominance in search. They said that Google secured its position through those exclusionary agreements you know, like where they pay Apple and Samsung and other companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices. So the government nothing has come of these cases just yet, but the government says they might look into making Google and these agreements or even forcing them to sell Chrome. Of course, Google, for their part, has appealed both rulings meta fighting theirs as well. But let's discuss here is a pattern that I've seen over and over in the time that I've been covering technology. Companies built something great, they dominate the market, and then someone else comes along and just does it better. And when that happens, the old guard falls usually pretty fast. Now, in the early days, you might remember it was all about Internet Explorer, and yes, we know how that came to be on top, But after that was fixed, it was a different story. Firefox beat Internet Explorer. Then Chrome came along and beat out Firefox. And now because of the blow and privacy of Chrome, people are moving to other browsers like Brave and Duck Duck Go. Now you might think, Rich, why is in everyone on Edge because that's pre installed on every Windows laptop? Why is in everyone on Safari that's pre installed on every Mac laptop? People go to the products that work well. BlackBerry, remember that one it was dominant. It was the force in the phone industry until the iPhone came along and instantly wiped it out. And now that is just a distant memory. Search Yahoo at a time was absolute king of search. Then Google came along and they did something better. You actually got the search results you were looking for. And again people switched email. Before Gmail, everyone was on high hotmail and Yahoo Hotmail gave you like a megabyte of storage for your email, maybe a little bit more. Yahoo a little bit more than that. And that's the one that I used back in the day. It was pretty good. But then Gmail came along and gave people unlimited space, better search, and a much cleaner design. And what did people do? They switched to Gmail. Consumers will switch if something better comes along. We've seen it over and over. Remember ask Jeeves. This was the hottest search engine for a hot minute because it promised natural language search. It did not deliver, and people moved on. More on that in a bit now. In the early days of technology, yes, we did need a lot of these rules to keep companies from forcing us to stick to their products. Companies used to use physical tactics to get us to stay, like installing a satellite dish on our roof, putting a cable box under our TV, locking us into a three year contract for a free phone that barely got reception. Yes, I'm talking about you original iPhone on AT and T. I switched to Verizon the day the iPhone was offered on that better service. Now, back in the day monopoly laws, they all seemed rooted in physical infrastructure right, protecting us from this railroads, oil pipelines, telephone lines that these big giant companies maintained and kept us on and also charged us a good price. For these days, we can jump between streaming services, phone carriers, and even home internet in minutes. Another example, YouTube dominates video, but they couldn't figure out shorts. TikTok came along and ate their lunch. Now I message this one actually still bothers me. This is one of the few services that I still believe hijacks your phone number. And there's really no alternative to it, at least on the iPhone. That is sort of more lock in if you ask me, versus innovation. And yes, you can argue there's a million messaging alternatives on the iPhone, but none of them are as integrated with the operating system, so that one I still take an issue with. Now, sometimes imitation does work. Instagram stole stories from Snapchat, and yes it's become a main mode of storytelling on that platform. But they also tried to copy TikTok's magic with reels and guess what most people are talking TikTok not reels, and again better we'll win.

I'm rich Demiro and this is rich on Tech. This is the show where I talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe the tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. Email is also an option. Just go to rich on Tech dot tv hit contact guests. This week, we've got Lauren brow On from Apple, Apple's environmental product manager. She'll talk trade in and recycling. At Apple stores, you can turn in old devices the right way and what really happens to all the stuff inside of them and the gadgets themselves. Then later in the show, We've got Menca sang Vi, author of Your Best Digital Life, Use Your Mind to Tame Your Tech. She will talk technology and how to take control of your screen time. Well, this week we saw two major lawsuits against big tech companies. Early in the week, it was the FTC against Meta, saying its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were strategic moves to eliminate competition. And then later in the week, it was the Department of Justice winning a case against Google, ruling that the company illegally monopolized the digital advertising market. They found that Google's control over both the buying and selling of online ads harmed publishers and consumers. And you might remember Google was under fire earlier last year. Back in August, another court ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining its dominance in search. They said that Google secured its position through those exclusionary agreements you know, like where they pay Apple and Samsung and other companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices. So the government nothing has come of these cases just yet, but the government says they might look into making Google and these agreements or even forcing them to sell Chrome. Of course, Google, for their part, has appealed both rulings meta fighting theirs as well. But let's discuss here is a pattern that I've seen over and over in the time that I've been covering technology. Companies built something great, they dominate the market, and then someone else comes along and just does it better. And when that happens, the old guard falls usually pretty fast. Now, in the early days, you might remember it was all about Internet Explorer, and yes, we know how that came to be on top, But after that was fixed, it was a different story. Firefox beat Internet Explorer. Then Chrome came along and beat out Firefox. And now because of the blow and privacy of Chrome, people are moving to other browsers like Brave and Duck Duck Go. Now you might think, Rich, why is in everyone on Edge because that's pre installed on every Windows laptop? Why is in everyone on Safari that's pre installed on every Mac laptop? People go to the products that work well. BlackBerry, remember that one it was dominant. It was the force in the phone industry until the iPhone came along and instantly wiped it out. And now that is just a distant memory. Search Yahoo at a time was absolute king of search. Then Google came along and they did something better. You actually got the search results you were looking for. And again people switched email. Before Gmail, everyone was on high hotmail and Yahoo Hotmail gave you like a megabyte of storage for your email, maybe a little bit more. Yahoo a little bit more than that. And that's the one that I used back in the day. It was pretty good. But then Gmail came along and gave people unlimited space, better search, and a much cleaner design. And what did people do? They switched to Gmail. Consumers will switch if something better comes along. We've seen it over and over. Remember ask Jeeves. This was the hottest search engine for a hot minute because it promised natural language search. It did not deliver, and people moved on. More on that in a bit now. In the early days of technology, yes, we did need a lot of these rules to keep companies from forcing us to stick to their products. Companies used to use physical tactics to get us to stay, like installing a satellite dish on our roof, putting a cable box under our TV, locking us into a three year contract for a free phone that barely got reception. Yes, I'm talking about you original iPhone on AT and T. I switched to Verizon the day the iPhone was offered on that better service. Now, back in the day monopoly laws, they all seemed rooted in physical infrastructure right, protecting us from this railroads, oil pipelines, telephone lines that these big giant companies maintained and kept us on and also charged us a good price. For these days, we can jump between streaming services, phone carriers, and even home internet in minutes. Another example, YouTube dominates video, but they couldn't figure out shorts. TikTok came along and ate their lunch. Now I message this one actually still bothers me. This is one of the few services that I still believe hijacks your phone number. And there's really no alternative to it, at least on the iPhone. That is sort of more lock in if you ask me, versus innovation. And yes, you can argue there's a million messaging alternatives on the iPhone, but none of them are as integrated with the operating system, so that one I still take an issue with. Now, sometimes imitation does work. Instagram stole stories from Snapchat, and yes it's become a main mode of storytelling on that platform. But they also tried to copy TikTok's magic with reels and guess what most people are talking TikTok not reels, and again better we'll win.

And right now, TikTok does short videos better.

And right now, TikTok does short videos better.

So this is kind of the issue I have with some of these heavy handed lawsuits and government regulation. They all assume that we're trapped, but these days we're not. We're not always trapped, and sometimes the best regulation is really choice. We saw that with Spotify. Okay, so think about back in the day. You paid a lot of money for your albums, right, your records, your CDs, your tapes, your cassettes. And then Apple came along with iTunes. You not only could put all your music in one place, but they decimated an entire music business overnight, inventing a whole new way to buy just one song at a time for ninety nine cents. Now, you would think that when screaming services came along, Apple would have the upper hand, right, everyone would just transition to Apple Music.

So this is kind of the issue I have with some of these heavy handed lawsuits and government regulation. They all assume that we're trapped, but these days we're not. We're not always trapped, and sometimes the best regulation is really choice. We saw that with Spotify. Okay, so think about back in the day. You paid a lot of money for your albums, right, your records, your CDs, your tapes, your cassettes. And then Apple came along with iTunes. You not only could put all your music in one place, but they decimated an entire music business overnight, inventing a whole new way to buy just one song at a time for ninety nine cents. Now, you would think that when screaming services came along, Apple would have the upper hand, right, everyone would just transition to Apple Music.

That did not happen.

That did not happen.

Everyone transitioned to Spotify, and that knocked out what Apple built over the last ten fifteen years overnight.

Everyone transitioned to Spotify, and that knocked out what Apple built over the last ten fifteen years overnight.

What about Netflix. Same thing.

What about Netflix. Same thing.

Blockbuster was the way to get your movies back in the day, and somehow Blockbuster could not stay current with the times. They couldn't figure out how to do DVD by mail like Netflix was doing. Even though they offered that service, it was not as good. And even today, Netflix still remains the top streaming service. But think about it, they do it with little promotion. When was the last time you saw Netflix ad on TV? What about discounts? They don't offer any discounts. They don't offer free trials anymore. You can't even try the service without paying. And by the way, when you go to cancel Netflix, if you've ever gone to cancel, there is no screen begging you to stay. They say, okay, we'll see you later, come back anytime now. I do think that would change if Netflix continues making these terrible movies that they're making, because not every movie. You know, they have a lot of stuff, not all of it is very good. Yes, they have some gems on there, but I'm not sitting there every Friday night saying, oh my gosh, Netflix, you're making the best stuff. But the overall experience of Netflix is very good. The search is good, the way you can download stuff, the fact that there's always something on there, the fact that there's stuff for everyone in the family. But people will leave if they mess up. They always do. Even Google Search, the king of searching for so many years. If you asked me a couple of years ago, is Google search the search in town? Is it ever gonna go away? Probably would have said no. But guess what happened November twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, when chatchybt came out boom overnight, Google is left scrambling. Chatchybt is now the way to search for so many people. It's faster, it's less cluttered, it's more direct, and Google has been left scrambling. Not only are people using traditional search less, no one is using Gemini, which is Google's AI as a proprietary eponym for AI. And yes, Google and Meta are both being sued by the government, and I get it. I'm not one of these people that says no government absolutely, oh my Google phone is disputing what I just said about Google Search. It literally just said, I think there's a misunderstanding in your statement. Okay, Gemini, not only okay, so yes, So I'm not one of these people that says no government oversight, right, Like, of course we need government oversight in various aspects of our lives.

Blockbuster was the way to get your movies back in the day, and somehow Blockbuster could not stay current with the times. They couldn't figure out how to do DVD by mail like Netflix was doing. Even though they offered that service, it was not as good. And even today, Netflix still remains the top streaming service. But think about it, they do it with little promotion. When was the last time you saw Netflix ad on TV? What about discounts? They don't offer any discounts. They don't offer free trials anymore. You can't even try the service without paying. And by the way, when you go to cancel Netflix, if you've ever gone to cancel, there is no screen begging you to stay. They say, okay, we'll see you later, come back anytime now. I do think that would change if Netflix continues making these terrible movies that they're making, because not every movie. You know, they have a lot of stuff, not all of it is very good. Yes, they have some gems on there, but I'm not sitting there every Friday night saying, oh my gosh, Netflix, you're making the best stuff. But the overall experience of Netflix is very good. The search is good, the way you can download stuff, the fact that there's always something on there, the fact that there's stuff for everyone in the family. But people will leave if they mess up. They always do. Even Google Search, the king of searching for so many years. If you asked me a couple of years ago, is Google search the search in town? Is it ever gonna go away? Probably would have said no. But guess what happened November twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, when chatchybt came out boom overnight, Google is left scrambling. Chatchybt is now the way to search for so many people. It's faster, it's less cluttered, it's more direct, and Google has been left scrambling. Not only are people using traditional search less, no one is using Gemini, which is Google's AI as a proprietary eponym for AI. And yes, Google and Meta are both being sued by the government, and I get it. I'm not one of these people that says no government absolutely, oh my Google phone is disputing what I just said about Google Search. It literally just said, I think there's a misunderstanding in your statement. Okay, Gemini, not only okay, so yes, So I'm not one of these people that says no government oversight, right, Like, of course we need government oversight in various aspects of our lives.

Guardrails matter on this stuff. We have AI.

Guardrails matter on this stuff. We have AI.

The tech industry has been largely unchecked for years. But that's been very important for the growth of a lot of these things. But let's not forget a lot of these giants did earn their spot by building something better. Back to those whole ad networks, right, this whole lawsuit against Google. I'm not an expert in the ad networks are publishing, but think about the ads that you see on the bottom of so many ad publishers pages, right, it's all garbage, all that stuff with those weird pictures and the weird headlines and the clickbait. You skip right past them.

The tech industry has been largely unchecked for years. But that's been very important for the growth of a lot of these things. But let's not forget a lot of these giants did earn their spot by building something better. Back to those whole ad networks, right, this whole lawsuit against Google. I'm not an expert in the ad networks are publishing, but think about the ads that you see on the bottom of so many ad publishers pages, right, it's all garbage, all that stuff with those weird pictures and the weird headlines and the clickbait. You skip right past them.

Right.

Right.

Google made ads that are relevant, People click them. It's good for the publisher, it's good for the ad network. It's good for everyone. Now Instagram it's the unifying social network. Everyone is on it.

Google made ads that are relevant, People click them. It's good for the publisher, it's good for the ad network. It's good for everyone. Now Instagram it's the unifying social network. Everyone is on it.

Again.

Again.

The market moves when the product improves. It's just that simple. So the companies that are still out there thinking that they can cling to their market share with gimmicks or digital strongholds that may work in the short term, but as history shows us, in the long term, all you have to do is build something better or someone else will. It's still happening today. All right, coming up, we are going to have some of your questions. Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Richard is in bell California. You're on with rich.

The market moves when the product improves. It's just that simple. So the companies that are still out there thinking that they can cling to their market share with gimmicks or digital strongholds that may work in the short term, but as history shows us, in the long term, all you have to do is build something better or someone else will. It's still happening today. All right, coming up, we are going to have some of your questions. Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Richard is in bell California. You're on with rich.

Richard.

Richard.

Hell, when I click on check out, you know you get that lock symbol with a spinning thing around it. Well, that never stops. It just keeps going and going for hours. What's going on there?

Hell, when I click on check out, you know you get that lock symbol with a spinning thing around it. Well, that never stops. It just keeps going and going for hours. What's going on there?

So you're trying to check out on PayPal and you can't get past that spinny screen.

So you're trying to check out on PayPal and you can't get past that spinny screen.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, okay.

Typically what's happening there is you have something that's interfering with the functionality of the website. Ninety nine percent of the time if there is a problem with a website loading, it is some sort of extension on your browser, or an AD blocker or a VPN. So those are the things to look for anytime there's a problem that what I do is typically toggle off if you're if you're using a good ad block or there should be an option on the ad blocker to pause on that website. So try reloading the site by pausing it and then reloading and see if that helps. If that does not, make sure you're not running sort of a network ad blocker or a VPN on the entire network. And then the other thing you can do is wipe that site off of your browser and start over so you can go in on Google. When you're on a website, there's actually a way to just erase the cookies from that particular website. To the left, if you're on Chrome, to the left of the URL bar, you'll see kind of two little I know, they almost look like dashes with circles, And you tap that, it says view site information, and it tells you connection is secure, third party sign in cookies and site data, So you can tap the cookies and site data and it says manage on device site data and you can tap that and you can actually delete the data from that web site.

Typically what's happening there is you have something that's interfering with the functionality of the website. Ninety nine percent of the time if there is a problem with a website loading, it is some sort of extension on your browser, or an AD blocker or a VPN. So those are the things to look for anytime there's a problem that what I do is typically toggle off if you're if you're using a good ad block or there should be an option on the ad blocker to pause on that website. So try reloading the site by pausing it and then reloading and see if that helps. If that does not, make sure you're not running sort of a network ad blocker or a VPN on the entire network. And then the other thing you can do is wipe that site off of your browser and start over so you can go in on Google. When you're on a website, there's actually a way to just erase the cookies from that particular website. To the left, if you're on Chrome, to the left of the URL bar, you'll see kind of two little I know, they almost look like dashes with circles, And you tap that, it says view site information, and it tells you connection is secure, third party sign in cookies and site data, So you can tap the cookies and site data and it says manage on device site data and you can tap that and you can actually delete the data from that web site.

So right now I'm on Reddit and I've got.

So right now I'm on Reddit and I've got.

The two little cookies from Reddit, and I can just delete those cookies and then what's going to happen is it's basically if you're signing to that website or it has saved any information on your computer, that information will be wiped clean and now you can deal with that website in.

The two little cookies from Reddit, and I can just delete those cookies and then what's going to happen is it's basically if you're signing to that website or it has saved any information on your computer, that information will be wiped clean and now you can deal with that website in.

A fresh way.

A fresh way.

So, Robert Richard, the other thing I would try to do is go to this website, the PayPal site, from a private browser window or use a different browser.

So, Robert Richard, the other thing I would try to do is go to this website, the PayPal site, from a private browser window or use a different browser.

That's the other thing I'll do.

That's the other thing I'll do.

So if I really don't want to deal with all these things, I'll just open up like say Safari on my computer or something. And because that's kind of a browser I don't typically use on a daily basis, there's nothing in there, so it doesn't have any extensions on it, it's got no ad blockers, and so I'll just go to that website from there and see if that website's working. And if it is, then you know it's something that you have installed on your other browser that is interfering with this website. But I would say my experience, ninety nine percent of the time it is either an ad blocker situation. It's basically stopping some sort of code from running on that site, or it is a cookie that's just kind of needs to be cleared out and started over.

So if I really don't want to deal with all these things, I'll just open up like say Safari on my computer or something. And because that's kind of a browser I don't typically use on a daily basis, there's nothing in there, so it doesn't have any extensions on it, it's got no ad blockers, and so I'll just go to that website from there and see if that website's working. And if it is, then you know it's something that you have installed on your other browser that is interfering with this website. But I would say my experience, ninety nine percent of the time it is either an ad blocker situation. It's basically stopping some sort of code from running on that site, or it is a cookie that's just kind of needs to be cleared out and started over.

A great question.

A great question.

Happens all the time, and it is very frustrating when that happens, because you're sitting there wondering like, hey, is this me? Is it the website? But I would say a majority of the time, if it's a large website, it's probably something on your end, because it's not like Paypalace sitting there for hours of the day and the website is not allowing people to complete their transactions. Great question. Thanks for the call. Let's go to Dennis and San Dimas. Dennis, you're on with Rich.

Happens all the time, and it is very frustrating when that happens, because you're sitting there wondering like, hey, is this me? Is it the website? But I would say a majority of the time, if it's a large website, it's probably something on your end, because it's not like Paypalace sitting there for hours of the day and the website is not allowing people to complete their transactions. Great question. Thanks for the call. Let's go to Dennis and San Dimas. Dennis, you're on with Rich.

Hi, Rich, and thank you for taking my call.

Hi, Rich, and thank you for taking my call.

Absolutely, what can I help you?

Absolutely, what can I help you?

Hear me?

Hear me?

All right?

All right?

Yeah, you sound great.

Yeah, you sound great.

Thank you. I work in a small printing company and we have a mixed Macintosh and a Windows environment. I'm sorry, I'm kind of old school. I still call it an IBM environment, but it's a Windows environment, and we heavily use Adobe type products like in design, Photoshop and so on and so forth. So we have a large amount of customer files that are in design files, and then we have terabytes worth of this data. I'm trying to find some type of attached storage network attached storage or something similar to it, a server maybe that we can store all the data and files for our customers, but it also needs to be friendly with not only Macintosh, but Windows computers also are shared on the same network. Do you have any recommendations?

Thank you. I work in a small printing company and we have a mixed Macintosh and a Windows environment. I'm sorry, I'm kind of old school. I still call it an IBM environment, but it's a Windows environment, and we heavily use Adobe type products like in design, Photoshop and so on and so forth. So we have a large amount of customer files that are in design files, and then we have terabytes worth of this data. I'm trying to find some type of attached storage network attached storage or something similar to it, a server maybe that we can store all the data and files for our customers, but it also needs to be friendly with not only Macintosh, but Windows computers also are shared on the same network. Do you have any recommendations?

Yeah, I mean, so here's the thing.

Yeah, I mean, so here's the thing.

I think that you're going to find that this is a lot easier than you think these You know, the cross compatibility of both Mac and PC has come a long way since you know, you mentioned the IBM stuff. I mean, it's pretty much plug and play at this point for all of the main provider.

I think that you're going to find that this is a lot easier than you think these You know, the cross compatibility of both Mac and PC has come a long way since you know, you mentioned the IBM stuff. I mean, it's pretty much plug and play at this point for all of the main provider.

So I can tell you the one that I've tried.

So I can tell you the one that I've tried.

I've tried the consumer side of things, but these companies make them for sort of the business. This sounds like you need kind of a prosumer version of one of these NAS drives. But basically you're looking what you want to look for is make sure it supports SMB. That's the standard one for Windows Apple. There is something called AFP Apple Filing Protocol, but that is I don't really think you necessarily need to look for that specifically. I think you just want to look on these NAS drives or these NAS servers, and make sure they say they're compatible with Mac and PC. Sinology and q nap are the two brands that I've just looked up and confirmed. They both will work for home and business. I think they're great for that and they will support both the Mac and PC side of things. So check out Synology, check out q nap. Just make sure that the server that you get is maybe a step above what you would get as a consumer, because a lot of people are going to be accessing this. Sounds like you're moving big file for sort of a high transfer rate as well like a faster support speed on this thing. So but Dennis, I think you'll find it pretty easy. These days, most of those are plug and play. Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk more tech right here.

I've tried the consumer side of things, but these companies make them for sort of the business. This sounds like you need kind of a prosumer version of one of these NAS drives. But basically you're looking what you want to look for is make sure it supports SMB. That's the standard one for Windows Apple. There is something called AFP Apple Filing Protocol, but that is I don't really think you necessarily need to look for that specifically. I think you just want to look on these NAS drives or these NAS servers, and make sure they say they're compatible with Mac and PC. Sinology and q nap are the two brands that I've just looked up and confirmed. They both will work for home and business. I think they're great for that and they will support both the Mac and PC side of things. So check out Synology, check out q nap. Just make sure that the server that you get is maybe a step above what you would get as a consumer, because a lot of people are going to be accessing this. Sounds like you're moving big file for sort of a high transfer rate as well like a faster support speed on this thing. So but Dennis, I think you'll find it pretty easy. These days, most of those are plug and play. Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk more tech right here.

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Welcome back to rich on Tech. Nintendo has updated it's information for the upcoming switch to remember, there was this whole issue with tariffs and they're worried that they might have to change the prices or the pre orders. But pre orders are going to start in the US on April twenty fourth. The launch date will stay the same, June fifth, twenty twenty five. I know a lot of people are excited for this console. It's been many years since Nintendo completely revamped this. The base console price will still remain at four hundred and fifty dollars, that's what they said from day one. The bundle with Mario Kart World, that's going to be five hundred dollars. So if you want to play that game, get the bundle. It's going to save you at least thirty dollars. Game pricing, Mario Kart World at least eighty dollars, Donkey Kong Bonanza seventy dollars. Now, what Nintendo said is they are raising prices on some of the accessory on some of the accessories for this device due to quote market conditions. So a pro controller eighty five bucks, a new pair of the JOYCN twos which magnetically attached to this thing ninety five dollars, the doc set one hundred and twenty dollars, carrying case bundle eighty five dollars, and Nintendo says it may adjust prices again based on anything that shifts. But the good news is the price of the console is staying the same. The accessories, you know, you can get those over time, but I know people were interested in the pre launch date or the pre order date and the actual price of the bundle and the base console. By the way, my pal Matt Swider, who you've heard on this show many times, the short com He's got all the details on the Prouder stuff.

Welcome back to rich on Tech. Nintendo has updated it's information for the upcoming switch to remember, there was this whole issue with tariffs and they're worried that they might have to change the prices or the pre orders. But pre orders are going to start in the US on April twenty fourth. The launch date will stay the same, June fifth, twenty twenty five. I know a lot of people are excited for this console. It's been many years since Nintendo completely revamped this. The base console price will still remain at four hundred and fifty dollars, that's what they said from day one. The bundle with Mario Kart World, that's going to be five hundred dollars. So if you want to play that game, get the bundle. It's going to save you at least thirty dollars. Game pricing, Mario Kart World at least eighty dollars, Donkey Kong Bonanza seventy dollars. Now, what Nintendo said is they are raising prices on some of the accessory on some of the accessories for this device due to quote market conditions. So a pro controller eighty five bucks, a new pair of the JOYCN twos which magnetically attached to this thing ninety five dollars, the doc set one hundred and twenty dollars, carrying case bundle eighty five dollars, and Nintendo says it may adjust prices again based on anything that shifts. But the good news is the price of the console is staying the same. The accessories, you know, you can get those over time, but I know people were interested in the pre launch date or the pre order date and the actual price of the bundle and the base console. By the way, my pal Matt Swider, who you've heard on this show many times, the short com He's got all the details on the Prouder stuff.

He stays up with that stuff much more than I do. So check him out. Let's go to another Richard. Wow, Richard and Arcadia, you're on with rich Hello.

He stays up with that stuff much more than I do. So check him out. Let's go to another Richard. Wow, Richard and Arcadia, you're on with rich Hello.

Hi, I'm looking for a recommendation for photo scanner, and also you can suggest app or a software so I can label a file picture so I can locate it or find it easier.

Hi, I'm looking for a recommendation for photo scanner, and also you can suggest app or a software so I can label a file picture so I can locate it or find it easier.

Okay, what are you scanning? Prints or negatives?

Okay, what are you scanning? Prints or negatives?

Basically a picture?

Basically a picture?

Yeah, okay, all right, So there's a couple ways do this.

Yeah, okay, all right, So there's a couple ways do this.

The first is the most expensive but also the fastest, and I've tested this it is incredible. It's the EPSOM Fast Photo FF six' eighty w and this is a real high speed system. You take a bunch of your pictures, you put them in the feeder. It goes through them just as fast as you can imagine. So you can put a whole bunch of in there at a time, it'll scan them. That's the absolute quickest way to get these things scanned. It's also very expensive, over five hundred dollars. So when I did my segment on this for TV, I said, look, split this with a family member, right, you pay two hundred and fifty bucks. You can you know, scan your pictures. You go and have these and now it's a lot cheaper. And everyone has photos around in their garage they want to scan, So ask a couple of family members, or you can sell this thing on you know, let go or offer up when you're done, something like that. So that's the first way, the fastest, but the most expensive. The second way is a flatbed scanner. And also I would look to epsyn. They've got a couple of these flatbed scanners much cheaper. You can get one for under one hundred dollars. They go under the Perfection name. And the downside to that is that you are going to be taking a much longer time to scan these pictures because you got to put them on that flat bed tray or that. Yeah, I guess it's a tray one at a time, and so that's going to be a much slower undertaking, but again, you can do it. And the nice thing about that is that if your pictures are different sizes, it'll be a lot easier to scan those, you know, if they're different thicknesses, weight sizes. A flatbed makes that process much easier. Now the third way, the third option is to use an app. So if you don't necessarily care about the highest quality of these photos, if you just want to get them scanned in Google has an app called photo scan.

The first is the most expensive but also the fastest, and I've tested this it is incredible. It's the EPSOM Fast Photo FF six' eighty w and this is a real high speed system. You take a bunch of your pictures, you put them in the feeder. It goes through them just as fast as you can imagine. So you can put a whole bunch of in there at a time, it'll scan them. That's the absolute quickest way to get these things scanned. It's also very expensive, over five hundred dollars. So when I did my segment on this for TV, I said, look, split this with a family member, right, you pay two hundred and fifty bucks. You can you know, scan your pictures. You go and have these and now it's a lot cheaper. And everyone has photos around in their garage they want to scan, So ask a couple of family members, or you can sell this thing on you know, let go or offer up when you're done, something like that. So that's the first way, the fastest, but the most expensive. The second way is a flatbed scanner. And also I would look to epsyn. They've got a couple of these flatbed scanners much cheaper. You can get one for under one hundred dollars. They go under the Perfection name. And the downside to that is that you are going to be taking a much longer time to scan these pictures because you got to put them on that flat bed tray or that. Yeah, I guess it's a tray one at a time, and so that's going to be a much slower undertaking, but again, you can do it. And the nice thing about that is that if your pictures are different sizes, it'll be a lot easier to scan those, you know, if they're different thicknesses, weight sizes. A flatbed makes that process much easier. Now the third way, the third option is to use an app. So if you don't necessarily care about the highest quality of these photos, if you just want to get them scanned in Google has an app called photo scan.

Now.

Now.

I do not think that they have updated this in a while, so that's the only downside, But I mean, it does what it needs to do, and the big thing about photo scan is that it will remove the glare from the pictures because it makes you take four pictures of the picture and then it uses some machine learning to merge those together. Yeah, the last time this was updated was in twenty twenty two, so it's not the most up to date version of a photo scanner app. But Google still keeps it on the App Store and it's available for iPhone and Android. The other one I've tested that's actually really good Photo Mine p h O t O M y n E, and this one is much more updated regularly. It's got five million downloads. And this is a company that lets you scan photos. You can scan negatives, so they do a great job of not only scanning your photos but also restoring them as well. And again the name is photo Mine P H O T O M y n E. And finally, to answer your question, Richard, when it comes to labeling your pictures, I do not believe you need to do that. We've got AI. You can put these into any sort of photo storage site like a Google Photos, a OneDrive, Amazon Photos, and Apple iCloud, whatever you want, and every single one of them will slice and dice these pictures based on what is in them. So if it has people, you can easily find the people in those. It will identify that places, it will look for landmarks. You'll be able to search Paris and see all your pictures from Paris, and on and on and on. So I don't really think there is a need to organize pictures anymore because AI has gotten so good at helping us find pictures. I know I can find any picture in my library in about one second, except for the actual picture.

I do not think that they have updated this in a while, so that's the only downside, But I mean, it does what it needs to do, and the big thing about photo scan is that it will remove the glare from the pictures because it makes you take four pictures of the picture and then it uses some machine learning to merge those together. Yeah, the last time this was updated was in twenty twenty two, so it's not the most up to date version of a photo scanner app. But Google still keeps it on the App Store and it's available for iPhone and Android. The other one I've tested that's actually really good Photo Mine p h O t O M y n E, and this one is much more updated regularly. It's got five million downloads. And this is a company that lets you scan photos. You can scan negatives, so they do a great job of not only scanning your photos but also restoring them as well. And again the name is photo Mine P H O T O M y n E. And finally, to answer your question, Richard, when it comes to labeling your pictures, I do not believe you need to do that. We've got AI. You can put these into any sort of photo storage site like a Google Photos, a OneDrive, Amazon Photos, and Apple iCloud, whatever you want, and every single one of them will slice and dice these pictures based on what is in them. So if it has people, you can easily find the people in those. It will identify that places, it will look for landmarks. You'll be able to search Paris and see all your pictures from Paris, and on and on and on. So I don't really think there is a need to organize pictures anymore because AI has gotten so good at helping us find pictures. I know I can find any picture in my library in about one second, except for the actual picture.

I'm looking for.

I'm looking for.

Any other picture that's similar. Sure, I will be able to find. But that one that I know I took, that's the one that does not get on earthed. I'm kind of kidding. Most of the time it does work. But those are the ways that I would recommend. You know, the scanning stuff, it's going to take a while if you want, if you want just an expert to do it. There are some companies out there that can do that. But scan my Photos is one that I actually use to scan my pictures. They're based i think in Irvine, California. Issue They used to allow you to drop them off if you wanted to, like, if you don't want to send them through the mail, because that's kind of the big thing with scanning pictures is you got to send them in the mail and so that there's you know a little bit of apprehension there if you're sending pictures through the mail, because something could happen there. Great question, Richard, thanks for it, and yes, get those pictures scanned. It's so great to have the old pictures in your digital library because it's fun, you know, not only for Flashback Friday and Throwback Thursday and all that fun stuff on social media, but you know, it's kind of fun to have these things show up on your photo frames or just on your memories on Google Photos. Like half of my fun on my phone now is just watching the Google Photos memories. Kind of makes me sad at some point because I'm like, oh my gosh, my kids have grown so fast, but it's also really cool. Let's see here if you are if you bought something from HP. There is a settlement this week that has they put up their website, so four million dollars settlement. HP has agreed to overclaims that it advertised misleading discounts on its website, So if you bought something from HP's website recently, you could be owed up to one hundred dollars. The lawsuits said that HP made deals look better than they actually were, causing customers to overpay. Of course, as with every settlement with every company, HP admits to no wrongdoing. But they are paying out this four million dollars, which quite honestly is not very much for a company of this size, but I guess to make this thing go away, that's what they did. If you bought an HP laptop, a desktop, mice, or keyboards from HP dot com between June fifth, twenty twenty one and October twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, you may qualify. Like I said, the payouts range from ten to one hundred dollars, So if you bought a mouse, you're probably gonna get closer to ten dollars. If you bought a laptop, you're probably gonna get closer to one hundred dollars. Claims are due by June ninth, so we've got a couple months here. You will need some details from your order, like the product name, order number, purchase date, and the final court approval is set for August twenty first, so nothing's gonna happen before then. But you can go in the meantime to hpsettlement dot com HP settlement dot com to put your information in and you know, search your email to see if if you think you bought something on HP dot com might be worse fit to put your name in for that. One little programming note. So I was off last week. We did a best of show. I don't typically announce those before I go on vacation, but I did. While I was on vacation, got so many emails from folks saying, hey, Rich, where's the podcast?

Any other picture that's similar. Sure, I will be able to find. But that one that I know I took, that's the one that does not get on earthed. I'm kind of kidding. Most of the time it does work. But those are the ways that I would recommend. You know, the scanning stuff, it's going to take a while if you want, if you want just an expert to do it. There are some companies out there that can do that. But scan my Photos is one that I actually use to scan my pictures. They're based i think in Irvine, California. Issue They used to allow you to drop them off if you wanted to, like, if you don't want to send them through the mail, because that's kind of the big thing with scanning pictures is you got to send them in the mail and so that there's you know a little bit of apprehension there if you're sending pictures through the mail, because something could happen there. Great question, Richard, thanks for it, and yes, get those pictures scanned. It's so great to have the old pictures in your digital library because it's fun, you know, not only for Flashback Friday and Throwback Thursday and all that fun stuff on social media, but you know, it's kind of fun to have these things show up on your photo frames or just on your memories on Google Photos. Like half of my fun on my phone now is just watching the Google Photos memories. Kind of makes me sad at some point because I'm like, oh my gosh, my kids have grown so fast, but it's also really cool. Let's see here if you are if you bought something from HP. There is a settlement this week that has they put up their website, so four million dollars settlement. HP has agreed to overclaims that it advertised misleading discounts on its website, So if you bought something from HP's website recently, you could be owed up to one hundred dollars. The lawsuits said that HP made deals look better than they actually were, causing customers to overpay. Of course, as with every settlement with every company, HP admits to no wrongdoing. But they are paying out this four million dollars, which quite honestly is not very much for a company of this size, but I guess to make this thing go away, that's what they did. If you bought an HP laptop, a desktop, mice, or keyboards from HP dot com between June fifth, twenty twenty one and October twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, you may qualify. Like I said, the payouts range from ten to one hundred dollars, So if you bought a mouse, you're probably gonna get closer to ten dollars. If you bought a laptop, you're probably gonna get closer to one hundred dollars. Claims are due by June ninth, so we've got a couple months here. You will need some details from your order, like the product name, order number, purchase date, and the final court approval is set for August twenty first, so nothing's gonna happen before then. But you can go in the meantime to hpsettlement dot com HP settlement dot com to put your information in and you know, search your email to see if if you think you bought something on HP dot com might be worse fit to put your name in for that. One little programming note. So I was off last week. We did a best of show. I don't typically announce those before I go on vacation, but I did. While I was on vacation, got so many emails from folks saying, hey, Rich, where's the podcast?

What the heck? Happened, is my podcast working.

What the heck? Happened, is my podcast working.

I know Bobo just perked up because he delivered the podcast to me, But I don't typically post the podcast when I'm on vacation, and there's a couple of reasons for that. A. I'm trying to stay on vacation number one. B It's a best of show, so I feel like, Okay, people have heard what I said before, but from what I've heard from you emailing me, you would rather have all of the shows in your podcast reader no matter what. So in the future I will probably post those. I'm not going to guarantee, but I will probably post those from here on out because I got so many emails from people that said, Rich, you ruined my whole weekend. I was waiting there, I was trying to download your show. I was trying to listen and I couldn't. And you know, I'm a laborating a little bit, but that's kind of the uh, it's kind of the image I got in my head. So anyway, moving forward, if you follow the newsletter rich on tech dot TV, I will give you a quick heads up on that if that does happen in the future. But I know from what I've gathered you like to hear the show, you like to have the podcast, So it's probably better to have the best of show in the feed versus not eight eight eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. The website rich on tech dot tv coming up. If you're a college student, you can get free access to Google's AI. I'll tell you how right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. As I mentioned, I was on vacation last weekend.

I know Bobo just perked up because he delivered the podcast to me, But I don't typically post the podcast when I'm on vacation, and there's a couple of reasons for that. A. I'm trying to stay on vacation number one. B It's a best of show, so I feel like, Okay, people have heard what I said before, but from what I've heard from you emailing me, you would rather have all of the shows in your podcast reader no matter what. So in the future I will probably post those. I'm not going to guarantee, but I will probably post those from here on out because I got so many emails from people that said, Rich, you ruined my whole weekend. I was waiting there, I was trying to download your show. I was trying to listen and I couldn't. And you know, I'm a laborating a little bit, but that's kind of the uh, it's kind of the image I got in my head. So anyway, moving forward, if you follow the newsletter rich on tech dot TV, I will give you a quick heads up on that if that does happen in the future. But I know from what I've gathered you like to hear the show, you like to have the podcast, So it's probably better to have the best of show in the feed versus not eight eight eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. The website rich on tech dot tv coming up. If you're a college student, you can get free access to Google's AI. I'll tell you how right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. As I mentioned, I was on vacation last weekend.

We went to Hawaii.

We went to Hawaii.

It was a great trip. Always fun there. The kids have a great time. Actually, one of our best friends, Bald Bryan of you might know him from he's on the Adam Kroll Show for a long time. Now he's doing his own newsletter all about movie picks. And by the way, I so I helped him, you know, I do this newsletter. And so he was asking me about, you know, starting a newsletter, and I said, absolutely should start one. And he's a great writer. He knows his movies, that's his big thing. And so as a test because he kind of pitched himself to come on this show during while we were in Hawaii, and I said, you know, I might consider that, you know, the streaming kind of a tech angle. You start a newsletter, and so as a little test, I watched a movie that he recommended on his newsletter and so I was like, let me just see. It was like, so he does this pick, like a streaming pick each week, maybe a couple of them, like stuff that you can watch for free on your streaming services, and so he recommends, you know, stuff you might not have heard of. And it was this movie called Logan Lucky twenty seventeen. It was a crime action thriller actually had like Katie Holmes, so big stars in this movie Channing Tatum by the way, Bobo, you'll appreciate this. My wife and I are surfing through the movies, you know, on on the TV. Yeah, and she just somehow, somehow happened to knew who Channing Tatum was.

It was a great trip. Always fun there. The kids have a great time. Actually, one of our best friends, Bald Bryan of you might know him from he's on the Adam Kroll Show for a long time. Now he's doing his own newsletter all about movie picks. And by the way, I so I helped him, you know, I do this newsletter. And so he was asking me about, you know, starting a newsletter, and I said, absolutely should start one. And he's a great writer. He knows his movies, that's his big thing. And so as a test because he kind of pitched himself to come on this show during while we were in Hawaii, and I said, you know, I might consider that, you know, the streaming kind of a tech angle. You start a newsletter, and so as a little test, I watched a movie that he recommended on his newsletter and so I was like, let me just see. It was like, so he does this pick, like a streaming pick each week, maybe a couple of them, like stuff that you can watch for free on your streaming services, and so he recommends, you know, stuff you might not have heard of. And it was this movie called Logan Lucky twenty seventeen. It was a crime action thriller actually had like Katie Holmes, so big stars in this movie Channing Tatum by the way, Bobo, you'll appreciate this. My wife and I are surfing through the movies, you know, on on the TV. Yeah, and she just somehow, somehow happened to knew who Channing Tatum was.

She like like, oh, the movie with that hot guy in it.

She like like, oh, the movie with that hot guy in it.

I'm like.

I'm like.

She just kind of like slipped it in there, right.

She just kind of like slipped it in there, right.

She was like kind of like Jones gonna watch that movie, but didn't realize, like I don't know if that movie really appeals to us. She's like, well, that guy's in it, that guy's in it, we can watch it.

She was like kind of like Jones gonna watch that movie, but didn't realize, like I don't know if that movie really appeals to us. She's like, well, that guy's in it, that guy's in it, we can watch it.

That was funny.

That was funny.

But Adam Driver's in this, Daniel Craig, Riley Keo, Hillary Swank, Katie Home so all star casts, but I never heard of it. Anyway, long story short, or probably longer in this case, I did watch it on the plane on Netflix and it was great. And so yes, Brian will be appearing on the show because I do trust his recommendations, not that I question them, but he's doing a great job with his newsletter. And anyway, his kid was there. So one thing I learned on this trip is that when you were on a trip with your kids, having other kids to play with, it kind of leaves a lot of time for the parents to have time to themselves. And my wife and I went on so many vacations over the years where our kids were little and it's like all hands on deck, and this time around, it was like, really, like, wait, do we like disturb the children? They're doing well? Now, I will tell you my kids both had their smart watches on, right, so they can kind of roam free, right, And it's so funny when you give a kid a smart watch, it's a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is you can be in touch with them. The bad thing is they are in touch with you for every single decision that they need to make in their little lives.

But Adam Driver's in this, Daniel Craig, Riley Keo, Hillary Swank, Katie Home so all star casts, but I never heard of it. Anyway, long story short, or probably longer in this case, I did watch it on the plane on Netflix and it was great. And so yes, Brian will be appearing on the show because I do trust his recommendations, not that I question them, but he's doing a great job with his newsletter. And anyway, his kid was there. So one thing I learned on this trip is that when you were on a trip with your kids, having other kids to play with, it kind of leaves a lot of time for the parents to have time to themselves. And my wife and I went on so many vacations over the years where our kids were little and it's like all hands on deck, and this time around, it was like, really, like, wait, do we like disturb the children? They're doing well? Now, I will tell you my kids both had their smart watches on, right, so they can kind of roam free, right, And it's so funny when you give a kid a smart watch, it's a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is you can be in touch with them. The bad thing is they are in touch with you for every single decision that they need to make in their little lives.

Hey, dad, can I order the burger at lunch? Yes, you can order the burger? Dad. Can we do this? Can we walk over to that?

Hey, dad, can I order the burger at lunch? Yes, you can order the burger? Dad. Can we do this? Can we walk over to that?

Yes, you can walk over there, as long as you're not leaving the property, jumping in the ocean, whatever. But it's like all these little decisions we used to make on our own as kids. Right, Like we were out all day. I know, you were bobo and I was too, Like we were just roaming the neighborhood. Good luck fine to me, Yeah exactly. You came home for dinner, that was it. And I had to come home when street lights came on. Yeah, yeah too, because you couldn't see anymore pretty much.

Yes, you can walk over there, as long as you're not leaving the property, jumping in the ocean, whatever. But it's like all these little decisions we used to make on our own as kids. Right, Like we were out all day. I know, you were bobo and I was too, Like we were just roaming the neighborhood. Good luck fine to me, Yeah exactly. You came home for dinner, that was it. And I had to come home when street lights came on. Yeah, yeah too, because you couldn't see anymore pretty much.

That was it, and you knew dinner was being served.

That was it, and you knew dinner was being served.

And by the way, it's like back in the day, we made very questionable decisions, like very questionable, and not all of them, but we made we found our way. So I guess my thesis here is that I think and I talked to my wife about this. She says, it's leading to a generation with no grit, right, Like these kids are much more fragile than we are because they are always pinging someone. It's kind of like me with CHATCHYBT. Now, I don't make any decision without asking CHATCHYBT. Maybe I'm becoming frail. Bobo laughed at that one. Come on, man, I'm not kidding. It's tough people. I'm not the only one. People are asking chatchybt all kinds of stuff. One other thing I noticed when I landed at the airport, Uber and Lyft both sent me notifications, Hey, welcome back to Lax.

And by the way, it's like back in the day, we made very questionable decisions, like very questionable, and not all of them, but we made we found our way. So I guess my thesis here is that I think and I talked to my wife about this. She says, it's leading to a generation with no grit, right, Like these kids are much more fragile than we are because they are always pinging someone. It's kind of like me with CHATCHYBT. Now, I don't make any decision without asking CHATCHYBT. Maybe I'm becoming frail. Bobo laughed at that one. Come on, man, I'm not kidding. It's tough people. I'm not the only one. People are asking chatchybt all kinds of stuff. One other thing I noticed when I landed at the airport, Uber and Lyft both sent me notifications, Hey, welcome back to Lax.

Do you need a ride home?

Do you need a ride home?

And I just thought that was so interesting because it's a little reminder to check the privacy permissions for all these apps on your phone now. I went into the the location privacy for both Lyft and Uber, and I thought maybe they had access because the apps love to have unfettered access to your location, right. They want always on access, And most of the time I will say no, you can have access only when this app is open or only when I'm using the app, But then they try to convince you otherwise. So anyway, look in your privacy permissions on your phone and just check to see the location privacy of the various apps, because you might have said, hey, you can have permission to this, and now they don't really need that anymore.

And I just thought that was so interesting because it's a little reminder to check the privacy permissions for all these apps on your phone now. I went into the the location privacy for both Lyft and Uber, and I thought maybe they had access because the apps love to have unfettered access to your location, right. They want always on access, And most of the time I will say no, you can have access only when this app is open or only when I'm using the app, But then they try to convince you otherwise. So anyway, look in your privacy permissions on your phone and just check to see the location privacy of the various apps, because you might have said, hey, you can have permission to this, and now they don't really need that anymore.

So just a reminder for that.

So just a reminder for that.

Oh and the other thing I got into crossword puzzles, I did so many. I've never done a crossword puzzle in my life. Now, Bobo's what what?

Oh and the other thing I got into crossword puzzles, I did so many. I've never done a crossword puzzle in my life. Now, Bobo's what what?

Now? What just such a nerd? What have you ever tried a crossword puzzle?

Now? What just such a nerd? What have you ever tried a crossword puzzle?

Yes?

Yes?

I used to do them a lot. Okay, so you're the original nerd. Now now who's the nerd?

I used to do them a lot. Okay, so you're the original nerd. Now now who's the nerd?

Now at all?

Now at all?

It?

It?

Okay, you grow about it out of crossword puzzles. But I will tell you here's what made me like crossword puzzles. They have a feature and they may not have had this when you're doing them, uh, when you're younger, Bobo an auto check feature, so as you go along you type in the word, it will.

Okay, you grow about it out of crossword puzzles. But I will tell you here's what made me like crossword puzzles. They have a feature and they may not have had this when you're doing them, uh, when you're younger, Bobo an auto check feature, so as you go along you type in the word, it will.

Check the letters. So if you have to play it on like any of any of them have it.

Check the letters. So if you have to play it on like any of any of them have it.

I know.

I know.

That's why back in the day we get paper, paper and pen or pencil, and you did them on slate anyway, So they so now they have this auto check feature where it will check the letters as you go along, And to me that has been the best thing because I cannot do a crossword puzzle with just guessing all the words and at the end saying, oh, check the puzzle, and I got to go back and rechange everything. So having that feature, that auto check, even though it feels a little bit like cheating, it's like, hey, if it's making me do this, why not.

That's why back in the day we get paper, paper and pen or pencil, and you did them on slate anyway, So they so now they have this auto check feature where it will check the letters as you go along, And to me that has been the best thing because I cannot do a crossword puzzle with just guessing all the words and at the end saying, oh, check the puzzle, and I got to go back and rechange everything. So having that feature, that auto check, even though it feels a little bit like cheating, it's like, hey, if it's making me do this, why not.

I think that's a good thing.

I think that's a good thing.

Uh, let's go quickly to Albert and Chatsworth.

Uh, let's go quickly to Albert and Chatsworth.

Albert, you're on with Rich.

Albert, you're on with Rich.

Thanks for taking my call. Sure, I'm kind of surprised I'm able to talk to you. I've got I've got for some reason, I've got pop up ads that are driving me totally. It's paralyzing my phone, and I'm trying to figure what I can do to get either get the ad where programs or something you recommend, or or what else where the procedures I can do to check before I'm I'm clicking any of these new apps and.

Thanks for taking my call. Sure, I'm kind of surprised I'm able to talk to you. I've got I've got for some reason, I've got pop up ads that are driving me totally. It's paralyzing my phone, and I'm trying to figure what I can do to get either get the ad where programs or something you recommend, or or what else where the procedures I can do to check before I'm I'm clicking any of these new apps and.

Stuff you've got.

Stuff you've got.

You've got You've got a bunch of websites that you visited or apps installed in this phone that are delivering these pop up ads. So first off, on your Android phone, I would go through, go through and uninstall any app that you no longer need or recognize. That's the number one thing. Then restart your phone, and then on your browser, I would completely clear out the cash and browser history on your browser. So on Android, go into your Brouser storage, clear the cash and that should do it. Now, if these things are putting pop ups, there is a section inside Chrome where you can get rid of the pop up notifications as well, So look in there for that, but get rid of the apps that you no longer need to use. That should typically take care of it. Eighty to eight rich one oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple A rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. If you're not following me on social media at rich on Tech, yeah, you guessed it.

You've got You've got a bunch of websites that you visited or apps installed in this phone that are delivering these pop up ads. So first off, on your Android phone, I would go through, go through and uninstall any app that you no longer need or recognize. That's the number one thing. Then restart your phone, and then on your browser, I would completely clear out the cash and browser history on your browser. So on Android, go into your Brouser storage, clear the cash and that should do it. Now, if these things are putting pop ups, there is a section inside Chrome where you can get rid of the pop up notifications as well, So look in there for that, but get rid of the apps that you no longer need to use. That should typically take care of it. Eighty to eight rich one oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple A rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. If you're not following me on social media at rich on Tech, yeah, you guessed it.

Just go down the line there.

Just go down the line there.

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Coming up this hour, we've got Lauren Brawn, Apple's environmental product manager. She's going to talk trade in and recycling at Apple stores. Yeah, if you have some old gadgets laying around the house, you might be able to get cash for those or at least recycle them. And they're offering a discount, so she'll explain that. And then later in the show, we've got Menka Sang, the author of Your Best Digital Life. She will talk technology and how to take control of your screen time. Let's go to uh to me in Orange, California. Did I get that right?

Coming up this hour, we've got Lauren Brawn, Apple's environmental product manager. She's going to talk trade in and recycling at Apple stores. Yeah, if you have some old gadgets laying around the house, you might be able to get cash for those or at least recycle them. And they're offering a discount, so she'll explain that. And then later in the show, we've got Menka Sang, the author of Your Best Digital Life. She will talk technology and how to take control of your screen time. Let's go to uh to me in Orange, California. Did I get that right?

Yes? You did. I love your show.

Yes? You did. I love your show.

Oh, thank you. That means a lot.

Oh, thank you. That means a lot.

Yeah, oh, yes, you're such a body accessor to Leo. My question to you is I had I'm talking about an iPhone and I had, you know, all my contacts on an exchange server, and then after that it became Yahoo, Gmail. So my contacts are spread over all these oh servers. I guess I want your recommendation on how to consolidate them into just one.

Yeah, oh, yes, you're such a body accessor to Leo. My question to you is I had I'm talking about an iPhone and I had, you know, all my contacts on an exchange server, and then after that it became Yahoo, Gmail. So my contacts are spread over all these oh servers. I guess I want your recommendation on how to consolidate them into just one.

One like main list. Great, great questions.

One like main list. Great, great questions.

This is this is such an issue, and to me, I've kind of I've declared like contact bankruptcy because I've given up on organizing my contacts. I've given up on organizing my photos and my contacts because thankfully the storage is there and the search is there.

This is this is such an issue, and to me, I've kind of I've declared like contact bankruptcy because I've given up on organizing my contacts. I've given up on organizing my photos and my contacts because thankfully the storage is there and the search is there.

So I do have all these.

So I do have all these.

Contacts that I'm like, eh, I'm not gonna sit there and try to fix these and make a perfect address book. But what you're trying to do is really consolidate these contacts and kind of get them all into one place. So there are many many ways you can do this. I'll go over a couple of the ways. So number one, what you want to do is export your contacts from these various services. So no matter what, download them all right, put them into an export file, make sure you've got them, and then you know, once you have them all in one place. Now what you want to do is upload them to a different place and organize them. So there is a there is an app out there called contactsplus dot com, and this will allow you to go through. It basically does exactly what you need. It'll help you sort of merge all of these contacts and put them into one place and organize them. That's probably going to be the most expensive way to do it, because you got to pay for that. If you're going over one thousand contacts, which may not be that you know, you may be fine with just a thousand. I'm looking at mine I've got let's see here, nine hundred and fifty nine, so I guess i'd be okay, I'm just under that total there. But depending on how many you have this, it's free for a thousand, okay. So what you want to do is upload all of those there and get those kind of cleaned up and SYNCD up and all that stuff. And then once you have them uploaded, then you want to download them and re upload them to the contact manager of your choice. So if that's your iPhone, if it's iCloud, if it's Google, then you re upload those okay. So that's number one. And by the way, you want to delete them from that service before you upload them. So download them all to lead them off those services. And now you have a couple of files, upload them to this third party service, get them cleaned up, download and then redo it. Now, there are many many ways to do this, like I said, So even if you're just uploading them all to your iPhone, like you said you have iPhone, there is a I think it's a relatively new feature in iPhone where you can open up your Contacts app and it says show duplicates. So let me see where that is to this. So if I go to all contacts, well, I thought there was a way to do that, but I guess it's in there somewhere, but I know on Google there is. So what I would do is, this is probably the easiest way to do it is if you go to Contacts dot Google dot com. And this is completely free, whether you use Google or not. Just you know, you can just go here contacts dot Google dot com, upload all of your contacts.