Chat GPT gets an eight hundred number. What it's like to get a massage from a robot, plus your tech questions answered, and what you're thankful for in twenty twenty four, what's going on rich damiro 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, festive, and fun. Phone lines are open at shriple 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 open. Just go to rich on tech dot tv and hit contact if you want to call in and tell me what you're thankful for this year when it comes to tech, I will accept that as well. Guests this week Marcia Collier, author of Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. She's going to join us to share tips from her new book, and mind Over Tech founder Jonathan Garner is going to explain how to develop a healthier relationship with technology. In twenty twenty five, Well, welcome to the show. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday season. I know this is one of my favorite times of the year. The house is cozy, everyone's in a good mood, things are fun and decorated, lots of holiday festivities. So I am a big fan of this time of the year and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Hope you are as well. I figured I would talk about, since it is the end of the year, some of my favorite apps of twenty twenty four. So, as you know, I test a lot of apps, I make a lot of changes. I'm often moving between iPhone and Android, and so I'm really looking for apps that are a couple of things simple, essential, new apps. I'm always looking for a better app than the one I have cross platform. Always wants something that works on iPhone and an Android, even though it's not always possible. AI one of the big trends I noticed this year. AI is in just about everything, so it's tough to avoid at this point, and sometimes it's fun to embrace simplifying complexity. That's one of my main things that I want. I want apps that just help me out in life, don't make my life more complicated. And of course all of my apps reflect my priorities, which is staying organized, staying creative, and staying connected. So, without further ado, let me go through some of the apps that are not only on my home screen but also just on my phone in general. And again a lot of these come from trial and error. I've tried so many apps and these are the apps that I kind of go back to. So first up Obsidian. So you've probably heard me talk about all of the note taking apps that I've tried over the years. This year I was using Notion a lot, and then I finally decided to go back to Obsidian when they introduce their web Clipper. And this is a tool that lets you clip web pages and save them into your notes and so I like that it's nice and clean. It gives me that web page saved forever. And what I like about this app is it's basically completely free if you want it to be. So, whether you're sinking it on iPhone or Android, it's all yours. All the information resides on your system, and it could be free forever. They do offer sync if you want to sink from your computer to your phone and make it easy. They do offer a paid option for that, but you can do it completely free as well. So I've really grown fond of Obsidian. My wife saw my Obsidian yesterday or a couple of days ago, and she looked at us. She goes, wow, you're so organized. I was like, well, yeah, you know, I try all right. This is a new one that I'm testing out for the new year. You've heard of Duo Lingo, but this one's called Speak and it's a new way to learn language with the help of AI. So it basically listens to you talk and it will talk back to you and it's all through AI. So I'm looking forward to learning Spanish through this app this year. Rosebud, this is one of my new favorites. This is a journaling app, but it's also powered by AI. Just did a story with the folks that created it and interviewed them and I got to say I use this app exactly once, and I was like, this is incredible. And so you write in it gives you questions you write in your journals, you know your answers to those, and then it sort of acts like a little mini therapist and it kind of analyzes what you're writing and it's like, hey, rich, we noticed that you really value you know this, this, and this, and we feel like what you did today goes back to what you mentioned a week ago. So the more you use this, the smarter it gets about you. And I know it's a little scary when it comes to privacy. And I asked the guys that I said, hey, is this stuff encrypted? Like, who's looking at this? They said it all it's all private. So Rosebud is a really cool AI journaling app that I'm just gonna I think I'm hopefully going to be a better person in twenty twenty five thanks to it. I feel like that's like what this thing will do for me. Google Photos, I mean this I've been using forever. You know, I love it. If you listen to me. I think what's neat about Google Photos is just puts everything in one place. It's cross platform. It's not as confusing as iCloud. iCloud. People love it and they use it because it's the default on iPhone. But the problem is it's very confusing and it's very kind of like one side platform. Like the whole point of iPhoto or of iCloud and iphotos is really just to get you into the Apple ecosystem and make it so sticky that you can never leave, and they've done a very good job with that. Because photos is something that everyone has, So I like Google Photos because it works across every platform. It works everywhere, and especially now with the Ai photo search, finding my old photos is just so easy. It's unbelievable. It's scary how good it is at finding old stuff, which is a couple of keywords. Microsoft to Do. You know, I struggle with my to do list, but Microsoft to Do is the one I continue to use. And the reason I like it over every other to do list out there is that it's free, completely free, and you can add files to your to do up to your to do entries, so if there's a file that you need to do something with, you can just drag it into your entry and deal with it as well. Google Calendar simple, I mean, as you can see, I do love my Google products. Google Calendar again, cross platform. I live inside this app. It is everything to me and I use it all the time. Chat GPT. You know, I was a big fan of Claude. I still am. I still think Claude is better at the English language, but I do think Chatchibt is really good at sort of being a jack of all trades, so not only can it do stuff, and it just keeps getting better with new options and features. On a daily basis, I do pay for it, but it can also make images, it can write code, It could just do everything that you throw at it. It may not be the best at everything, but it's good at a lot of stuff, especially with web search and things like that. So I have kind of gone all in on Chat GBT and it just continues to impress me with how natural and easy it is to sort of adapt to my needs. Google Gemini is great. This is Google's version of AI, and I find that it's it's good, it's smart, it's clever. It tells you how it's thinking, which is a new feature which is really wild. But I feel like overall, Chat GBT is just kind of easier. But Google Gemini is great when you want sort of the latest information on a topic, It's always up to date. It's kind of like Google, but the AI version of it. All Right, Now, these two apps I rely on on a daily basis. It's called email Me, and it's both on iOS and Android. It's the same thing, different developers. So I have this where you can tap this and anything you're thinking, you can just email to yourself very quickly, and so I absolutely love these apps. I use them all day, every day, and it's just so much easier than sort of writing things in a notepad or a to do list, because my email inbox or my email inbox is my to do list, so I kind of put everything in there and then triage it later when I have the time for social media. Instagram and X continue to be not so much, but really Instagram is the place I go to the most when it comes to the short posts like X and Blue Sky. Of course, everyone's been hopping back and forth. X still feels more active than Blue Sky, but I know a lot of people are trying to make Blue Sky a thing, so we'll see what happens there. Mosey, this is a new app. This is a social app that's more private than typical social media apps. And what's unique about this app is that it's only your real friends that are in your address book, and so you can share your travel plans. And I've always had this idea and this kind of image in my head of here I am, I landed in Seattle. Who wants to have dinner with me in Seattle tonight, and instead of texting your entire address book, this would just show that you're in Seattle and people would say, oh, hey, I'm Riches friend. Let me hey, rich I'm here in Seattle. Let's go have dinner. So that's a really cool new app. Still testing it out, kind of waiting into that one. Moz I Mosey Whisper Memos. Again, you've probably heard me talk about this. Absolutely one percent game changing. This lets you record voice notes from your wrist on the Apple Watch. It's iOS only, Apple Watch only, iPhone only, so that's the only downside of emailed the developer. I said, please bring this to Android. We need it on Android. But I love this because I can just record a note for my wrist. It's transcribed and sent to my inbox, and it's just so fantastic. I absolutely love it all right, going down the list here, Popple popl This is what I use for my digital business cards. A lot of people don't have physical business cards anymore. This just gives you a QR code. People can scan it get your info really really easy. Do like that Raindrop dot io. This is not so much handy on my phone, but on my computer. I use it, and it's just a great app for organizing and saving your bookmarks. You probably use Chrome or whatever your browser is to organize your bookmarks, but Raindrop just takes it a little bit further because it helps you organize them as well. So I really like that one. And then fly Finn talking about organizing stuff, I really like this for tracking my tax deductible expenses. So you know, I have a couple of different jobs. A lot of that stuff is freelance, and so I like keeping track of all my expenses. And this uses AI to say, like, hey, we noticed that you made a purchase at office depot. We're going to automatically assume that that's a business expense unless you tell us otherwise, and it automatically categorizes everything as well. There is a yearly fee associated with it, but I think it's well worth that fee. All right, coming up, I'll tell you some more of these when we get back from the break. But eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. I'm also talking about what people are thankful for today. Nico in Nicaragua, ex California resident says, I'm thankful for all the free info you share. Thank you Nico eight eight to eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one links to all those apps on my website rich on tech dot tv. More of your questions after this, 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. Email is also an option. Just go to Richontech dot tv, hit contact, and be sure to follow me on social media. I am at rich on Tech posted my holiday card to you and thank you for all of the amazing responses that you wrote on there. I was just reading through them and it's it's pretty pretty amazing talking about tech news. Just how many people you can affect, and I do appreciate that. Speaking of what people are thankful for, I asked you on my Instagram to say what you're thankful for in technology, and Jim in Arizona says, I'm thankful for FaceTime so I can keep in touch with family living in different states. So before the break, I was talking about some of the apps that I really enjoy on my phone. I'm just going to contin you, because I do have a lot of them, and I think they're very useful. I've got these all linked up on the website rich on tech dot tv. But another app that I really like this year is called Rocket Money. This used to be called True Bill, and this gives you a snapshot of all of your recurring bills and your spending habits. And it's completely free. They do have a paid upgrade if you want. I don't really see a need for the paid upgrade, but the free app does great things. You connect all of your accounts and it kind of tells you, like there's a calendar that shows you all of your bills and when they're happening, and I really like that, and also how much you're spending, so you can tap Starbucks and see how much you've spent there. We were going through the other night and it's like, all right, how much do you think we spent here? How much do you think we spent there? And I knew Amazon was going to be the most, and sure enough it was, and then something like Starbucks actually wasn't that much. I'm not a big Starbucks, like, I don't go there all the time, and so I was like kind of surprised how little I spent there throughout the year. Another mon money app is called Monarch Money. This is a great Remember Mint went out of business, that was a fantastic app for tracking your net worth. Monarch Money sort of fills that gap and it's kind of like Rocket Money as well. But it has a great net worth feature. So you can put all of your accounts in one place. You can put your cars, you can put your house if you have multiple cars, you can put your four oh one K, you can put every account that you have. You link it up to this Monarch Money and then it will show you, you know, your net worth, which is kind of like I guess that's everything you have minus what you owe. So if you have debt, credit cards, that kind of stuff, it'll take it all out and it'll show you like how much you have. And it's just a great app. It really does a nice job. The only downside is it does have a yearly fee, which I get it. It's a smaller developer, so they got to make money somehow, and there's no ads or things like that. So you know, with Mint, they were making money on the back end by collecting your data and of course, selling that against advertising or whatever marketing monarch money is just more like this is you. We're gonna charge you, but you're gonna have a great app. All right, this photo, this app if you put a if you put one app on your phone, this is it. No matter what kind of smartphone you have. It's called Radiant Photo. And before you post anything to social media, just put the photo through this app. Takes one tap and it makes it look better. He uses AI. It's incredible. As far as I can tell. It's free. I've never paid for it and it works really well. Radiant Photo. Got to give a shout out to my pal Jefferson Graham, who does all the photo stuff. He was the one that recommended that to me, and it's great. Canva this is to me. If you remember print shop back in the day, this is the modern version of print shop. So I do all my Instagram posts now, I'm not an expert in design, and you can definitely tell that if you follow me on Instagram you see my helpful posts. They are nothing special, but they get the information across and I use I use Canva to do that, and to be honest, I'm doing these very quickly. You'd be surprised how long it takes to make one of those little posts on Canva. And I get it. The influencers, they do a great job. They're beautiful. But the thing is the the amount of time it takes them to make those is a lot. And I just don't have all that time, so I just want to get the information out, so I'll just do it on Canva quickly. Award Wallet, I love this app. I put all my It just automatically scans my Gmail and finds every reservation I make and puts it into one giant timeline. I love it, whether it's a restaurant, hotel, no matter what. Award Wallet is incredible for that upside. I've talked about this, save money, get cash back on gas and groceries. I love it. I've gotten like a couple hundred dollars back through this app. It's really really cool. Upside. If you're in La, sick of Citizen LA. I don't know how you pronounce this app, but it's La It nine one one La at nine one one. It's kind of like Citizen but just for La. All the police activity in your area. You can see what's happening, watch duty very similar, but for wildfire activity in your area. It's called watch Duty. Libby also one of my favorites for free books I can read on my Kindle. Flighty. If you're flying, Flighty is fantastic for all of your flight details in one place. It is the best flight tracking app out there. It is incredible. It's iOS only, unfortunately, but it's really really incredible. Cap Cut is what I use to edit videos on the go on my phone. Caffeine if you have an Android. Caffeine is excellent. If you want to keep your screen awake, like maybe you're making a recipe or something. One tap Caffeine will keep it awake for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. It's so great if you're reading something, don't want your screen to go dark. Zero Cam this is what I'm just kind of playing with. But this is a camera app that uses no AI, so just takes a picture, doesn't use any AI to affect it. Kind of the opposite of the other one I told you about, the Radiant Photo and then Ways absolutely love Ways. For one feature, it's called time to Leave, So if I need to be somewhere at six pm, I pop it into ways. It says leave later, and you can see exactly what time you need to leave your place to get there on time at six pm. Again, all of these apps linked up on my website rich On tech dot TV eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming back, We'll take a call and have more of what you are thankful for here on rich On Tech. Let's go to Diana in Torrance, California. Diana, welcome to the show.

Chat GPT gets an eight hundred number. What it's like to get a massage from a robot, plus your tech questions answered, and what you're thankful for in twenty twenty four, what's going on rich damiro 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, festive, and fun. Phone lines are open at shriple 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 open. Just go to rich on tech dot tv and hit contact if you want to call in and tell me what you're thankful for this year when it comes to tech, I will accept that as well. Guests this week Marcia Collier, author of Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. She's going to join us to share tips from her new book, and mind Over Tech founder Jonathan Garner is going to explain how to develop a healthier relationship with technology. In twenty twenty five, Well, welcome to the show. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday season. I know this is one of my favorite times of the year. The house is cozy, everyone's in a good mood, things are fun and decorated, lots of holiday festivities. So I am a big fan of this time of the year and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Hope you are as well. I figured I would talk about, since it is the end of the year, some of my favorite apps of twenty twenty four. So, as you know, I test a lot of apps, I make a lot of changes. I'm often moving between iPhone and Android, and so I'm really looking for apps that are a couple of things simple, essential, new apps. I'm always looking for a better app than the one I have cross platform. Always wants something that works on iPhone and an Android, even though it's not always possible. AI one of the big trends I noticed this year. AI is in just about everything, so it's tough to avoid at this point, and sometimes it's fun to embrace simplifying complexity. That's one of my main things that I want. I want apps that just help me out in life, don't make my life more complicated. And of course all of my apps reflect my priorities, which is staying organized, staying creative, and staying connected. So, without further ado, let me go through some of the apps that are not only on my home screen but also just on my phone in general. And again a lot of these come from trial and error. I've tried so many apps and these are the apps that I kind of go back to. So first up Obsidian. So you've probably heard me talk about all of the note taking apps that I've tried over the years. This year I was using Notion a lot, and then I finally decided to go back to Obsidian when they introduce their web Clipper. And this is a tool that lets you clip web pages and save them into your notes and so I like that it's nice and clean. It gives me that web page saved forever. And what I like about this app is it's basically completely free if you want it to be. So, whether you're sinking it on iPhone or Android, it's all yours. All the information resides on your system, and it could be free forever. They do offer sync if you want to sink from your computer to your phone and make it easy. They do offer a paid option for that, but you can do it completely free as well. So I've really grown fond of Obsidian. My wife saw my Obsidian yesterday or a couple of days ago, and she looked at us. She goes, wow, you're so organized. I was like, well, yeah, you know, I try all right. This is a new one that I'm testing out for the new year. You've heard of Duo Lingo, but this one's called Speak and it's a new way to learn language with the help of AI. So it basically listens to you talk and it will talk back to you and it's all through AI. So I'm looking forward to learning Spanish through this app this year. Rosebud, this is one of my new favorites. This is a journaling app, but it's also powered by AI. Just did a story with the folks that created it and interviewed them and I got to say I use this app exactly once, and I was like, this is incredible. And so you write in it gives you questions you write in your journals, you know your answers to those, and then it sort of acts like a little mini therapist and it kind of analyzes what you're writing and it's like, hey, rich, we noticed that you really value you know this, this, and this, and we feel like what you did today goes back to what you mentioned a week ago. So the more you use this, the smarter it gets about you. And I know it's a little scary when it comes to privacy. And I asked the guys that I said, hey, is this stuff encrypted? Like, who's looking at this? They said it all it's all private. So Rosebud is a really cool AI journaling app that I'm just gonna I think I'm hopefully going to be a better person in twenty twenty five thanks to it. I feel like that's like what this thing will do for me. Google Photos, I mean this I've been using forever. You know, I love it. If you listen to me. I think what's neat about Google Photos is just puts everything in one place. It's cross platform. It's not as confusing as iCloud. iCloud. People love it and they use it because it's the default on iPhone. But the problem is it's very confusing and it's very kind of like one side platform. Like the whole point of iPhoto or of iCloud and iphotos is really just to get you into the Apple ecosystem and make it so sticky that you can never leave, and they've done a very good job with that. Because photos is something that everyone has, So I like Google Photos because it works across every platform. It works everywhere, and especially now with the Ai photo search, finding my old photos is just so easy. It's unbelievable. It's scary how good it is at finding old stuff, which is a couple of keywords. Microsoft to Do. You know, I struggle with my to do list, but Microsoft to Do is the one I continue to use. And the reason I like it over every other to do list out there is that it's free, completely free, and you can add files to your to do up to your to do entries, so if there's a file that you need to do something with, you can just drag it into your entry and deal with it as well. Google Calendar simple, I mean, as you can see, I do love my Google products. Google Calendar again, cross platform. I live inside this app. It is everything to me and I use it all the time. Chat GPT. You know, I was a big fan of Claude. I still am. I still think Claude is better at the English language, but I do think Chatchibt is really good at sort of being a jack of all trades, so not only can it do stuff, and it just keeps getting better with new options and features. On a daily basis, I do pay for it, but it can also make images, it can write code, It could just do everything that you throw at it. It may not be the best at everything, but it's good at a lot of stuff, especially with web search and things like that. So I have kind of gone all in on Chat GBT and it just continues to impress me with how natural and easy it is to sort of adapt to my needs. Google Gemini is great. This is Google's version of AI, and I find that it's it's good, it's smart, it's clever. It tells you how it's thinking, which is a new feature which is really wild. But I feel like overall, Chat GBT is just kind of easier. But Google Gemini is great when you want sort of the latest information on a topic, It's always up to date. It's kind of like Google, but the AI version of it. All Right, Now, these two apps I rely on on a daily basis. It's called email Me, and it's both on iOS and Android. It's the same thing, different developers. So I have this where you can tap this and anything you're thinking, you can just email to yourself very quickly, and so I absolutely love these apps. I use them all day, every day, and it's just so much easier than sort of writing things in a notepad or a to do list, because my email inbox or my email inbox is my to do list, so I kind of put everything in there and then triage it later when I have the time for social media. Instagram and X continue to be not so much, but really Instagram is the place I go to the most when it comes to the short posts like X and Blue Sky. Of course, everyone's been hopping back and forth. X still feels more active than Blue Sky, but I know a lot of people are trying to make Blue Sky a thing, so we'll see what happens there. Mosey, this is a new app. This is a social app that's more private than typical social media apps. And what's unique about this app is that it's only your real friends that are in your address book, and so you can share your travel plans. And I've always had this idea and this kind of image in my head of here I am, I landed in Seattle. Who wants to have dinner with me in Seattle tonight, and instead of texting your entire address book, this would just show that you're in Seattle and people would say, oh, hey, I'm Riches friend. Let me hey, rich I'm here in Seattle. Let's go have dinner. So that's a really cool new app. Still testing it out, kind of waiting into that one. Moz I Mosey Whisper Memos. Again, you've probably heard me talk about this. Absolutely one percent game changing. This lets you record voice notes from your wrist on the Apple Watch. It's iOS only, Apple Watch only, iPhone only, so that's the only downside of emailed the developer. I said, please bring this to Android. We need it on Android. But I love this because I can just record a note for my wrist. It's transcribed and sent to my inbox, and it's just so fantastic. I absolutely love it all right, going down the list here, Popple popl This is what I use for my digital business cards. A lot of people don't have physical business cards anymore. This just gives you a QR code. People can scan it get your info really really easy. Do like that Raindrop dot io. This is not so much handy on my phone, but on my computer. I use it, and it's just a great app for organizing and saving your bookmarks. You probably use Chrome or whatever your browser is to organize your bookmarks, but Raindrop just takes it a little bit further because it helps you organize them as well. So I really like that one. And then fly Finn talking about organizing stuff, I really like this for tracking my tax deductible expenses. So you know, I have a couple of different jobs. A lot of that stuff is freelance, and so I like keeping track of all my expenses. And this uses AI to say, like, hey, we noticed that you made a purchase at office depot. We're going to automatically assume that that's a business expense unless you tell us otherwise, and it automatically categorizes everything as well. There is a yearly fee associated with it, but I think it's well worth that fee. All right, coming up, I'll tell you some more of these when we get back from the break. But eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. I'm also talking about what people are thankful for today. Nico in Nicaragua, ex California resident says, I'm thankful for all the free info you share. Thank you Nico eight eight to eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one links to all those apps on my website rich on tech dot tv. More of your questions after this, 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. Email is also an option. Just go to Richontech dot tv, hit contact, and be sure to follow me on social media. I am at rich on Tech posted my holiday card to you and thank you for all of the amazing responses that you wrote on there. I was just reading through them and it's it's pretty pretty amazing talking about tech news. Just how many people you can affect, and I do appreciate that. Speaking of what people are thankful for, I asked you on my Instagram to say what you're thankful for in technology, and Jim in Arizona says, I'm thankful for FaceTime so I can keep in touch with family living in different states. So before the break, I was talking about some of the apps that I really enjoy on my phone. I'm just going to contin you, because I do have a lot of them, and I think they're very useful. I've got these all linked up on the website rich on tech dot tv. But another app that I really like this year is called Rocket Money. This used to be called True Bill, and this gives you a snapshot of all of your recurring bills and your spending habits. And it's completely free. They do have a paid upgrade if you want. I don't really see a need for the paid upgrade, but the free app does great things. You connect all of your accounts and it kind of tells you, like there's a calendar that shows you all of your bills and when they're happening, and I really like that, and also how much you're spending, so you can tap Starbucks and see how much you've spent there. We were going through the other night and it's like, all right, how much do you think we spent here? How much do you think we spent there? And I knew Amazon was going to be the most, and sure enough it was, and then something like Starbucks actually wasn't that much. I'm not a big Starbucks, like, I don't go there all the time, and so I was like kind of surprised how little I spent there throughout the year. Another mon money app is called Monarch Money. This is a great Remember Mint went out of business, that was a fantastic app for tracking your net worth. Monarch Money sort of fills that gap and it's kind of like Rocket Money as well. But it has a great net worth feature. So you can put all of your accounts in one place. You can put your cars, you can put your house if you have multiple cars, you can put your four oh one K, you can put every account that you have. You link it up to this Monarch Money and then it will show you, you know, your net worth, which is kind of like I guess that's everything you have minus what you owe. So if you have debt, credit cards, that kind of stuff, it'll take it all out and it'll show you like how much you have. And it's just a great app. It really does a nice job. The only downside is it does have a yearly fee, which I get it. It's a smaller developer, so they got to make money somehow, and there's no ads or things like that. So you know, with Mint, they were making money on the back end by collecting your data and of course, selling that against advertising or whatever marketing monarch money is just more like this is you. We're gonna charge you, but you're gonna have a great app. All right, this photo, this app if you put a if you put one app on your phone, this is it. No matter what kind of smartphone you have. It's called Radiant Photo. And before you post anything to social media, just put the photo through this app. Takes one tap and it makes it look better. He uses AI. It's incredible. As far as I can tell. It's free. I've never paid for it and it works really well. Radiant Photo. Got to give a shout out to my pal Jefferson Graham, who does all the photo stuff. He was the one that recommended that to me, and it's great. Canva this is to me. If you remember print shop back in the day, this is the modern version of print shop. So I do all my Instagram posts now, I'm not an expert in design, and you can definitely tell that if you follow me on Instagram you see my helpful posts. They are nothing special, but they get the information across and I use I use Canva to do that, and to be honest, I'm doing these very quickly. You'd be surprised how long it takes to make one of those little posts on Canva. And I get it. The influencers, they do a great job. They're beautiful. But the thing is the the amount of time it takes them to make those is a lot. And I just don't have all that time, so I just want to get the information out, so I'll just do it on Canva quickly. Award Wallet, I love this app. I put all my It just automatically scans my Gmail and finds every reservation I make and puts it into one giant timeline. I love it, whether it's a restaurant, hotel, no matter what. Award Wallet is incredible for that upside. I've talked about this, save money, get cash back on gas and groceries. I love it. I've gotten like a couple hundred dollars back through this app. It's really really cool. Upside. If you're in La, sick of Citizen LA. I don't know how you pronounce this app, but it's La It nine one one La at nine one one. It's kind of like Citizen but just for La. All the police activity in your area. You can see what's happening, watch duty very similar, but for wildfire activity in your area. It's called watch Duty. Libby also one of my favorites for free books I can read on my Kindle. Flighty. If you're flying, Flighty is fantastic for all of your flight details in one place. It is the best flight tracking app out there. It is incredible. It's iOS only, unfortunately, but it's really really incredible. Cap Cut is what I use to edit videos on the go on my phone. Caffeine if you have an Android. Caffeine is excellent. If you want to keep your screen awake, like maybe you're making a recipe or something. One tap Caffeine will keep it awake for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. It's so great if you're reading something, don't want your screen to go dark. Zero Cam this is what I'm just kind of playing with. But this is a camera app that uses no AI, so just takes a picture, doesn't use any AI to affect it. Kind of the opposite of the other one I told you about, the Radiant Photo and then Ways absolutely love Ways. For one feature, it's called time to Leave, So if I need to be somewhere at six pm, I pop it into ways. It says leave later, and you can see exactly what time you need to leave your place to get there on time at six pm. Again, all of these apps linked up on my website rich On tech dot TV eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming back, We'll take a call and have more of what you are thankful for here on rich On Tech. Let's go to Diana in Torrance, California. Diana, welcome to the show.

Hi Realich, thank you for taking my call. I use a Mac and Apple devices, and I was wondering is there any possible kind of either software app or hardware device that would allow.

Hi Realich, thank you for taking my call. I use a Mac and Apple devices, and I was wondering is there any possible kind of either software app or hardware device that would allow.

Me to connect to my home Wi.

Me to connect to my home Wi.

Fi network when I'm out of range of the home Life Fine network or in a remote location.

Fi network when I'm out of range of the home Life Fine network or in a remote location.

What do you mean by connect to your home Wi Fi network? You want to tap into your your internet or you want to tap into your computer at home? Like what do you want to do?

What do you mean by connect to your home Wi Fi network? You want to tap into your your internet or you want to tap into your computer at home? Like what do you want to do?

Well?

Well?

I want to be able to connect to the Wi Fi as if I were at home. Like let's say, if I have my Mac with me and I'd like to connect to my home Wi Fi from like a remote location.

I want to be able to connect to the Wi Fi as if I were at home. Like let's say, if I have my Mac with me and I'd like to connect to my home Wi Fi from like a remote location.

Okay, there actually is a startup that's doing this, and I'm trying to find the Okay, I think here it is. So it's interesting what you're talking about. There's not a way to do it easily, and what you're saying like, you can't really you can connect your home network from AFAR using something like a team viewer or you know, remote file sharing or remote desktop or Chrome has a version of that, but that'll just get you into your computer network. If you want to connect to your Wi Fi. There's actually a company that's working on this called clever Phi c L e v er Fi, and so what they're doing is they are coming up with a system that kind of lets you log into your home network using your Wi Fi from anywhere you are. It's really like I couldn't even understand when these people were telling me, like what this means. But that's the company is clever Fi. And I'm not going to try to even explain it because I don't even really understand. But the idea is that if you're a hotel or a you know, coffee place, whatever, you would sign up with this clever Fi software and then when you get to that hotel somehow you can just log in with your credentials from home. I don't know, it's weird, but it's that's kind of what you're talking about. And I think that's the company that's working on it. But again, this all depends on the place enabling this kind of software. So the company is Cleverfi dot com. It's a startup. I think it's out of Italy, but they were working on that. Now. When it comes to just kind of accessing your computer from outside of your home, which many people might want to be able to do, there is software that can do this. Chrome Remote Desktop is probably the easiest. It's free from Google and you just install it on your computer and then you can share the screen, access files, whatever. Apple also has something called screen sharing that's built in. I've been using this at home. You just turn it on in your computer and when you go to your network from other computers, you can see your Mac on that network. So that's easy. And then of course there's software like Teamviewer. Team Viewer is free sort of remote connectivity software and that will allow you to do the same thing. Thanks for the question, Diana there in Torrance. Hope you're having a great holiday season. Coming up later on the show, if you're into Android, We've got Marcia Collier. She wrote a new book called Androids Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. I've got a copy of it right here, and reminds me a lot of the book that I wrote about the iPhone. I wrote one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. Now I self published that book. But this is through the dummies. You know you've seen those dummies books, right, But it looks like you know, same thing. I did all little screens shots and all the circles around things to show you where stuff is no easy feat when you're writing a how to book for for phones, there's a lot that goes into that because there's just so much that you got to think about. Let's see here. Let's go to Spencer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Spencer, you're on with Rich.

Okay, there actually is a startup that's doing this, and I'm trying to find the Okay, I think here it is. So it's interesting what you're talking about. There's not a way to do it easily, and what you're saying like, you can't really you can connect your home network from AFAR using something like a team viewer or you know, remote file sharing or remote desktop or Chrome has a version of that, but that'll just get you into your computer network. If you want to connect to your Wi Fi. There's actually a company that's working on this called clever Phi c L e v er Fi, and so what they're doing is they are coming up with a system that kind of lets you log into your home network using your Wi Fi from anywhere you are. It's really like I couldn't even understand when these people were telling me, like what this means. But that's the company is clever Fi. And I'm not going to try to even explain it because I don't even really understand. But the idea is that if you're a hotel or a you know, coffee place, whatever, you would sign up with this clever Fi software and then when you get to that hotel somehow you can just log in with your credentials from home. I don't know, it's weird, but it's that's kind of what you're talking about. And I think that's the company that's working on it. But again, this all depends on the place enabling this kind of software. So the company is Cleverfi dot com. It's a startup. I think it's out of Italy, but they were working on that. Now. When it comes to just kind of accessing your computer from outside of your home, which many people might want to be able to do, there is software that can do this. Chrome Remote Desktop is probably the easiest. It's free from Google and you just install it on your computer and then you can share the screen, access files, whatever. Apple also has something called screen sharing that's built in. I've been using this at home. You just turn it on in your computer and when you go to your network from other computers, you can see your Mac on that network. So that's easy. And then of course there's software like Teamviewer. Team Viewer is free sort of remote connectivity software and that will allow you to do the same thing. Thanks for the question, Diana there in Torrance. Hope you're having a great holiday season. Coming up later on the show, if you're into Android, We've got Marcia Collier. She wrote a new book called Androids Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. I've got a copy of it right here, and reminds me a lot of the book that I wrote about the iPhone. I wrote one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. Now I self published that book. But this is through the dummies. You know you've seen those dummies books, right, But it looks like you know, same thing. I did all little screens shots and all the circles around things to show you where stuff is no easy feat when you're writing a how to book for for phones, there's a lot that goes into that because there's just so much that you got to think about. Let's see here. Let's go to Spencer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Spencer, you're on with Rich.

How are you doing, Rich?

How are you doing, Rich?

I'm doing great? What's can I help you with?

I'm doing great? What's can I help you with?

I have a system that I built based on Asus Toughs Gaming X five seventy plus WiFi motherboard.

I have a system that I built based on Asus Toughs Gaming X five seventy plus WiFi motherboard.

Okay, it's floaded with loaded with Windows ten.

Okay, it's floaded with loaded with Windows ten.

Now I want to upgrade, but Windows says that I have to have TPM turned on and I have to have U e F.

Now I want to upgrade, but Windows says that I have to have TPM turned on and I have to have U e F.

I turned on. Yes, but when I went to the bias and.

I turned on. Yes, but when I went to the bias and.

Turn those on, it refuses to boot.

Turn those on, it refuses to boot.

Oh am, I stuck.

Oh am, I stuck.

I don't want to have to reload the I have about one hundred programs on here.

I don't want to have to reload the I have about one hundred programs on here.

I'd have to go fishing for keys or is there any way I can.

I'd have to go fishing for keys or is there any way I can.

Do this without having to reformat the hard drive because then I'd have.

Do this without having to reformat the hard drive because then I'd have.

To buy the Windows eleven instead of getting it free.

To buy the Windows eleven instead of getting it free.

Yeah right, No, So, yeah, you're right, there are some requirements for Windows eleven on these systems. It sounds like your system. Did you build this yourself?

Yeah right, No, So, yeah, you're right, there are some requirements for Windows eleven on these systems. It sounds like your system. Did you build this yourself?

Yes?

Yes?

Okay, so it sounds like to me that you've got the requirements, and you know because you built this thing that you have these things that you need. It's basically the security of the system. It's like it's kind of at the base level of the system, this security chip that it requires. It's kind of the same thing with Apple too. They did the same thing on their computers, but it's you know, it's like base level security, and they want you to have that on your system to be able to install Windows eleven moving forward, just for a lot of reasons. So you're saying you have that on your system. Correct.

Okay, so it sounds like to me that you've got the requirements, and you know because you built this thing that you have these things that you need. It's basically the security of the system. It's like it's kind of at the base level of the system, this security chip that it requires. It's kind of the same thing with Apple too. They did the same thing on their computers, but it's you know, it's like base level security, and they want you to have that on your system to be able to install Windows eleven moving forward, just for a lot of reasons. So you're saying you have that on your system. Correct.

I have it on the system, but when I turn it on, it no longer boots.

I have it on the system, but when I turn it on, it no longer boots.

Oh okay, well that's.

Oh okay, well that's.

Oh apparently it won't boost Windows tan.

Oh apparently it won't boost Windows tan.

Oh okay, so that's interesting. So yeah, that's a problem.

Oh okay, so that's interesting. So yeah, that's a problem.

Then.

Then.

Now there are some blog posts about forcing the Windows eleven upgrade. Have you checked that or tried that?

Now there are some blog posts about forcing the Windows eleven upgrade. Have you checked that or tried that?

Uh? No?

Uh? No?

Okay, all right, So I'm looking at howtogeek dot com and this is, uh, you know, how to force the Windows eleven update. Now, this is from last year, so I don't know how current it is, but this is gonna This says that you can force this. Okay, yeah, you can bypass. I'm just reading through this. It looks like it looks like you'll probably be able to do it using this guide if you. The problem is you got to download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, which let's see if they still even have that available, because this was from a y or ago. Looks like they do, so you might do that.

Okay, all right, So I'm looking at howtogeek dot com and this is, uh, you know, how to force the Windows eleven update. Now, this is from last year, so I don't know how current it is, but this is gonna This says that you can force this. Okay, yeah, you can bypass. I'm just reading through this. It looks like it looks like you'll probably be able to do it using this guide if you. The problem is you got to download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, which let's see if they still even have that available, because this was from a y or ago. Looks like they do, so you might do that.

Now.

Now.

Is your computer fully updated?

Is your computer fully updated?

Yeah, it's the bias is updated.

Yeah, it's the bias is updated.

I've got everything up to.

I've got everything up to.

One bias beyond.

One bias beyond.

Requirements from Windows eleven.

Requirements from Windows eleven.

Okay, I don't they'll.

Okay, I don't they'll.

Have another window to load, but I think.

Have another window to load, but I think.

The bias system that I got in there right now is good to go.

The bias system that I got in there right now is good to go.

Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna link this up on the website on the show notes. This this how to geek article because it actually it looks like it brings you to a pretty good help page for Windows that will help you download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, and then if you don't want that, you can also create a Windows eleven Installation media and then you can download a disk image as well. So this kind of gives you all the tools that might help you get that on there. It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I think that these would be thing that you would be able to figure out if you're going through the standard you know, Windows eleven update through your Windows ten. It may not allow you to do that because, like you said, these things are not turned on. Once you turn it on in the bios, it's not booting up, so it's signaling to the Windows eleven Assistant that hey, this computer is not supported. And we've also seen some articles come out in recent weeks that say you can force this on more computers, although Microsoft ended up coming out and saying no, no, we didn't say that. So I'll link these up on the website rich on Tech dot tv so that you can get an idea of some of these things that you might be able to work around. But yeah, you've got about a year to figure this out, so you've got some time. And of course we know Windows eleven they're gonna Windows ten is going to stop being supported as of October of twenty twenty five. But if you want to keep it for that extra year, and Spencer, maybe you just want to do this, you can pay an extra thirty dollars to keep it for one more year past that deadline, and they will give you all those security updates. Good question, eighty to eight. Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight. Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, I've got a whole bunch of whole bunch of stuff to talk about, but I'll talk about some chat GBT things. They've got a couple of new things this week, including making search free and there's an eight hundred number to call chat GBT. I'll explain coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one the website for the show richon tech dot TV. Once you go there, you can get the show notes by hitting the light bulb, or it just might be on the homepage. This is episode one oh two one o two. There you go reading what you submitted to me as what you're thankful for for the tech world, Robin in Anaheim says she is thankful for my ring peephole camera, my dash cam, and my smart watch. Those are three solid things to be thankful for. And this week, did you know you can call chat GPT. I know it sounds silly, and there's been a lot of chatchybt news lately because they've been doing this like twelve Days of Christmas thing or something similar to that, and so every day they've been like releasing new features and so there's been a lot of stuff with chat GBT. But this is an eight hundred number. It's literally one eight hundred chat GPT. So you can dial that phone number from any phone and it will bring you to their AI assistant and you can ask a question. You get up to fifteen minutes for free each month, because you know they want to make sure everyone can use this. And I thought this was interesting because it sounds silly and it's like, Okay, well don't most people have an app to use chatch ebt through? Well, not everyone. And I love the idea that now this is available through any phone. So you know, you've got someone elderly, you've got a senior in your life, you've got someone that maybe doesn't have a computer, doesn't you know, use a smartphone, they can just call this number and talk to AI. And I think especially for some of the uh, you know, more elder folks out there that may not have a lot of experience with AI to be able to ask about something like in their childhood or history or you know, it's just the amount of information and knowledge that AI has that they can tap into from a traditional phone call. It's pretty wild. So I think this is kind of cool and it reminds me. I was reading The Verge. They have a newsletter called the Installer, and they they kind of reminded me of two other phone numbers back in the day Google. Remember Google had their own eight hundred number for four one one. It was like one eight hundred Google four one one. I think it was yeah, Google four one one and you could literally dial that. And remember back in the day, four one one used to cost money to get a phone number. Like you would dial that and at the end of the month you'd see your phone bill and be like, oh, I called four one one seven times. It's like you know, at one point, I think it was like a dollar each time you called or something. And remember, I mean this is going way back. Oh wow, oh wow, my Google AI is is activated.

Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna link this up on the website on the show notes. This this how to geek article because it actually it looks like it brings you to a pretty good help page for Windows that will help you download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, and then if you don't want that, you can also create a Windows eleven Installation media and then you can download a disk image as well. So this kind of gives you all the tools that might help you get that on there. It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I think that these would be thing that you would be able to figure out if you're going through the standard you know, Windows eleven update through your Windows ten. It may not allow you to do that because, like you said, these things are not turned on. Once you turn it on in the bios, it's not booting up, so it's signaling to the Windows eleven Assistant that hey, this computer is not supported. And we've also seen some articles come out in recent weeks that say you can force this on more computers, although Microsoft ended up coming out and saying no, no, we didn't say that. So I'll link these up on the website rich on Tech dot tv so that you can get an idea of some of these things that you might be able to work around. But yeah, you've got about a year to figure this out, so you've got some time. And of course we know Windows eleven they're gonna Windows ten is going to stop being supported as of October of twenty twenty five. But if you want to keep it for that extra year, and Spencer, maybe you just want to do this, you can pay an extra thirty dollars to keep it for one more year past that deadline, and they will give you all those security updates. Good question, eighty to eight. Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight. Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, I've got a whole bunch of whole bunch of stuff to talk about, but I'll talk about some chat GBT things. They've got a couple of new things this week, including making search free and there's an eight hundred number to call chat GBT. I'll explain coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one the website for the show richon tech dot TV. Once you go there, you can get the show notes by hitting the light bulb, or it just might be on the homepage. This is episode one oh two one o two. There you go reading what you submitted to me as what you're thankful for for the tech world, Robin in Anaheim says she is thankful for my ring peephole camera, my dash cam, and my smart watch. Those are three solid things to be thankful for. And this week, did you know you can call chat GPT. I know it sounds silly, and there's been a lot of chatchybt news lately because they've been doing this like twelve Days of Christmas thing or something similar to that, and so every day they've been like releasing new features and so there's been a lot of stuff with chat GBT. But this is an eight hundred number. It's literally one eight hundred chat GPT. So you can dial that phone number from any phone and it will bring you to their AI assistant and you can ask a question. You get up to fifteen minutes for free each month, because you know they want to make sure everyone can use this. And I thought this was interesting because it sounds silly and it's like, Okay, well don't most people have an app to use chatch ebt through? Well, not everyone. And I love the idea that now this is available through any phone. So you know, you've got someone elderly, you've got a senior in your life, you've got someone that maybe doesn't have a computer, doesn't you know, use a smartphone, they can just call this number and talk to AI. And I think especially for some of the uh, you know, more elder folks out there that may not have a lot of experience with AI to be able to ask about something like in their childhood or history or you know, it's just the amount of information and knowledge that AI has that they can tap into from a traditional phone call. It's pretty wild. So I think this is kind of cool and it reminds me. I was reading The Verge. They have a newsletter called the Installer, and they they kind of reminded me of two other phone numbers back in the day Google. Remember Google had their own eight hundred number for four one one. It was like one eight hundred Google four one one. I think it was yeah, Google four one one and you could literally dial that. And remember back in the day, four one one used to cost money to get a phone number. Like you would dial that and at the end of the month you'd see your phone bill and be like, oh, I called four one one seven times. It's like you know, at one point, I think it was like a dollar each time you called or something. And remember, I mean this is going way back. Oh wow, oh wow, my Google AI is is activated.

There.

There.

Back in the day, an operator, like a human being used to answer four one one. I mean, I just I kind of forgot about that until just now. You would call and be like hey, they'd be like what city and what city enlisting or somehow. They'd answer the phone and you would say, uh, you know Montclair, New Jersey, the AMC theater or whatever movie theater it was back then, and they would be like, Okay, hold on, here's your number, let me connect you. And you like this stuff just sounds like why would you ever need that now? But sure enough we went through a whole phase with that. And remember this one seven seven seven film. Remember you would call a phone number to get the movie times. Hello and welcome to moviefone press one for whatever, and you know that was that was a thing that went on for a while. Oh what's that? Oh I don't remember that one. Oh you dial for time? Oh okay, Adam. Adam's on the board today. He's telling me that that wasn't over the air, right, you're just talking to me, okay. And you can't hear him, but I can. He's the voices in my head. He said, you would dial popcorn for the time. I have not heard of that one. Get out of here, Popcorn. Yeah, kqed used to be able to call popcorn and get the time. Okay. That was apparently in northern California that was based there.

Back in the day, an operator, like a human being used to answer four one one. I mean, I just I kind of forgot about that until just now. You would call and be like hey, they'd be like what city and what city enlisting or somehow. They'd answer the phone and you would say, uh, you know Montclair, New Jersey, the AMC theater or whatever movie theater it was back then, and they would be like, Okay, hold on, here's your number, let me connect you. And you like this stuff just sounds like why would you ever need that now? But sure enough we went through a whole phase with that. And remember this one seven seven seven film. Remember you would call a phone number to get the movie times. Hello and welcome to moviefone press one for whatever, and you know that was that was a thing that went on for a while. Oh what's that? Oh I don't remember that one. Oh you dial for time? Oh okay, Adam. Adam's on the board today. He's telling me that that wasn't over the air, right, you're just talking to me, okay. And you can't hear him, but I can. He's the voices in my head. He said, you would dial popcorn for the time. I have not heard of that one. Get out of here, Popcorn. Yeah, kqed used to be able to call popcorn and get the time. Okay. That was apparently in northern California that was based there.

There you go.

There you go.

Well, I think anyone could dial it, but maybe there you go the time at the tone, the time is currently eleven fifty three. Whatever it was. We've come a long way, baby, that's for sure. Okay, So you got the one eight hundred chat GBT. The other thing chat GBT did this week is they made their search, their web search, their real time web search, free for all users. Now this one kind of annoyed me because I paid twenty bucks a month for open Ai for a chat GBT for this feature and then they made it free. My kid was using chat GBT and he's like, oh, Dad, I can search the web. Now. I'm like, wait, what are you on my account? He said, no, it's free for everyone, so what So yeah, So now on chat GBT, if you go there, you'll notice in the search bar there's a little globe icon and if you tap that, it's going to bring you it's going to kind of search the real time web for information, which is really cool because it's great for travel, it's great for a lot of things that require real time data. So you can literally anything that's in the news, say give me an update on bitcoin whatever, and it will. And if you tap that little globe, it will give you the latest data on bitcoin based on the articles. And so right now it's telling me literally as of this moment, exactly what it's trading at, how much its surpassed, and all the different things that has contributed to this. I mean, that's pretty incredible. And if you just had regular chat GBT without the web, it would just give you kind of what I call like a book report on bitcoin. It wouldn't give you that real time information. Uh, let's see, Lido writes in Hey, Rich, I remember an episode of KTLA where you described how to reset instagram suggested content to a factory setting. I haven't been liking the suggestions on my account lately and would love a fresh start. Can you remind me how to do this? Yes, Lido. The worst words in the tech language are rolling out, and when I mentioned something is rolling out, that means it is not available to everyone at the same time. So I've been checking for this feature on a daily basis because I can't stand the recommendations I'm getting on Instagram right now. But they're going to let you do a master reset of your recommendations, which I think every single app should have this. I think your music app should have this. I think your social media apps should have this, your fitness apps. Every app should just offer you a master reset switch. And maybe it's locked behind like a pin or something so that you don't mistakenly do it. But sometimes you just want a fresh start. Like maybe you're listening to holiday music on whatever music app you're using, and in January, all of a sudden, those songs come up. Now, I feel like the music app should be smart enough to say, okay, let's not give them holiday songs in January, but you never know. So this feature, if you want to check for it, you tap your profile on Instagram and then you go into the upper right hand corner the three little dots or the three little lines that are the menu, and then you scroll down to where it says content preferences and you tap in there and you're going to see all this stuff interested, not interested, hidden words, sensitive content, political content, hide suggested, reduced by fact checking in. There will be a new option called reset, and it will be there any day. I don't have it yet on any of my devices, but that's where it's going to be.

Well, I think anyone could dial it, but maybe there you go the time at the tone, the time is currently eleven fifty three. Whatever it was. We've come a long way, baby, that's for sure. Okay, So you got the one eight hundred chat GBT. The other thing chat GBT did this week is they made their search, their web search, their real time web search, free for all users. Now this one kind of annoyed me because I paid twenty bucks a month for open Ai for a chat GBT for this feature and then they made it free. My kid was using chat GBT and he's like, oh, Dad, I can search the web. Now. I'm like, wait, what are you on my account? He said, no, it's free for everyone, so what So yeah, So now on chat GBT, if you go there, you'll notice in the search bar there's a little globe icon and if you tap that, it's going to bring you it's going to kind of search the real time web for information, which is really cool because it's great for travel, it's great for a lot of things that require real time data. So you can literally anything that's in the news, say give me an update on bitcoin whatever, and it will. And if you tap that little globe, it will give you the latest data on bitcoin based on the articles. And so right now it's telling me literally as of this moment, exactly what it's trading at, how much its surpassed, and all the different things that has contributed to this. I mean, that's pretty incredible. And if you just had regular chat GBT without the web, it would just give you kind of what I call like a book report on bitcoin. It wouldn't give you that real time information. Uh, let's see, Lido writes in Hey, Rich, I remember an episode of KTLA where you described how to reset instagram suggested content to a factory setting. I haven't been liking the suggestions on my account lately and would love a fresh start. Can you remind me how to do this? Yes, Lido. The worst words in the tech language are rolling out, and when I mentioned something is rolling out, that means it is not available to everyone at the same time. So I've been checking for this feature on a daily basis because I can't stand the recommendations I'm getting on Instagram right now. But they're going to let you do a master reset of your recommendations, which I think every single app should have this. I think your music app should have this. I think your social media apps should have this, your fitness apps. Every app should just offer you a master reset switch. And maybe it's locked behind like a pin or something so that you don't mistakenly do it. But sometimes you just want a fresh start. Like maybe you're listening to holiday music on whatever music app you're using, and in January, all of a sudden, those songs come up. Now, I feel like the music app should be smart enough to say, okay, let's not give them holiday songs in January, but you never know. So this feature, if you want to check for it, you tap your profile on Instagram and then you go into the upper right hand corner the three little dots or the three little lines that are the menu, and then you scroll down to where it says content preferences and you tap in there and you're going to see all this stuff interested, not interested, hidden words, sensitive content, political content, hide suggested, reduced by fact checking in. There will be a new option called reset, and it will be there any day. I don't have it yet on any of my devices, but that's where it's going to be.

Leado.

Leado.

I cannot wait for that fresh start. Hopefully this comes by the beginning of the year. Eighty to eight Rich one O one rich on tech dot tv coming up more of your calls and questions and what you're thankful for. Right here, Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one, the website for the show richon tech dot TV. There you can watch my TV segments that I do for KTLA Television here in Los Angeles and also assorted TV stations around the US, so you can watch them all right there. I asked you on Instagram at rich on Tech what you're thankful for, got a lot of responses. Alfonso and La Puente said, my Galaxy Watch six. I've made healthier choices as a result. I do think that the smart watches do that. I think they make you more aware of how many, you know, steps you're taking, how many minutes you're getting all that good stuff. So I'm glad you liked that. And by the way, it took me a couple of tries, but I did dial the time and temperature and apparently.

I cannot wait for that fresh start. Hopefully this comes by the beginning of the year. Eighty to eight Rich one O one rich on tech dot tv coming up more of your calls and questions and what you're thankful for. Right here, Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one, the website for the show richon tech dot TV. There you can watch my TV segments that I do for KTLA Television here in Los Angeles and also assorted TV stations around the US, so you can watch them all right there. I asked you on Instagram at rich on Tech what you're thankful for, got a lot of responses. Alfonso and La Puente said, my Galaxy Watch six. I've made healthier choices as a result. I do think that the smart watches do that. I think they make you more aware of how many, you know, steps you're taking, how many minutes you're getting all that good stuff. So I'm glad you liked that. And by the way, it took me a couple of tries, but I did dial the time and temperature and apparently.

Imp cure is coming up after this.

Imp cure is coming up after this.

So apparently the phone number is still working. But it's uh, it's it's like it says the time and temperature is coming up after this, but then there's like an AD, a long AD, and then it does the time temperature. So I think someone bought that, and I don't did it have an AD back in the day. Probably not, probably just had no just had the time. So anyway, but it didn't work for different area codes except for the San Francisco area code, so I guess that was more of a regional thing. I guess. Let's see, let's go to Brenda in Orange County. Welcome to the holiday party.

So apparently the phone number is still working. But it's uh, it's it's like it says the time and temperature is coming up after this, but then there's like an AD, a long AD, and then it does the time temperature. So I think someone bought that, and I don't did it have an AD back in the day. Probably not, probably just had no just had the time. So anyway, but it didn't work for different area codes except for the San Francisco area code, so I guess that was more of a regional thing. I guess. Let's see, let's go to Brenda in Orange County. Welcome to the holiday party.

Hi rich, Yeah, Hi, I'm in much need of your advice. I don't understand much tech. I need to know if I bought the right TV yesterday.

Hi rich, Yeah, Hi, I'm in much need of your advice. I don't understand much tech. I need to know if I bought the right TV yesterday.

Okay, my.

Okay, my.

Old RCA TV quit working.

Old RCA TV quit working.

R How old was it?

R How old was it?

It was about fifteen years old?

It was about fifteen years old?

Wow, okay, I think you got your money's worth on that one.

Wow, okay, I think you got your money's worth on that one.

Yes, yes, it was before you know, the smart TVs existed. I just watched local channels over the air broadcast with my indoor rabbit ears antenna my TV.

Yes, yes, it was before you know, the smart TVs existed. I just watched local channels over the air broadcast with my indoor rabbit ears antenna my TV.

How much does that costs? How much they charge you for that?

How much does that costs? How much they charge you for that?

Nothing?

Nothing?

I was just kidding, that was a trick question.

I was just kidding, that was a trick question.

Oh okay, I thought what Okay, Now I don't have internet in my home or Wi Fi, my smart I'm on. I'm on my son in law's AT and T family plan. Okay, so I can I can browse the internet, you know, I paid him for the phone, and I can order online if I wanted to. But I don't now the TV I bought yesterday. I assume it was a hundred and twenty vote. It's an it's a smart TV. It's an LG U h D Okay, and you know, but I don't need all those extras at this time.

Oh okay, I thought what Okay, Now I don't have internet in my home or Wi Fi, my smart I'm on. I'm on my son in law's AT and T family plan. Okay, so I can I can browse the internet, you know, I paid him for the phone, and I can order online if I wanted to. But I don't now the TV I bought yesterday. I assume it was a hundred and twenty vote. It's an it's a smart TV. It's an LG U h D Okay, and you know, but I don't need all those extras at this time.

Maybe in the future.

Maybe in the future.

So will this smart TV just work by just plugging it, plugging it in and playing the local channels?

So will this smart TV just work by just plugging it, plugging it in and playing the local channels?

Typically? Yes, it depends on the model. So I'm assuming there is an RC like a coax jack on the back for the antenna. Have you checked.

Typically? Yes, it depends on the model. So I'm assuming there is an RC like a coax jack on the back for the antenna. Have you checked.

I have an open Oh I haven't opened the box.

I have an open Oh I haven't opened the box.

Okay, what's the actual model number of the TV?

Okay, what's the actual model number of the TV?

Do you have that?

Do you have that?

Okay? On the front of the TV it says four to three to seven zero mm.

Okay? On the front of the TV it says four to three to seven zero mm.

That's it. Forty three okay, So here it is. So we've got this and we're just this is so this does have LG's smart system, which is called web OS, so it is on there. But all we're looking for is, let's see the inputs here, connector types. Let's see here. I mean, I would assume every TV has a jack on the back to connect this antenna, but you never know, you know, it could be that it doesn't let me see uh here, I'm looking trying to find the specs that actually shows me the back of the TV. If you can plug in an antenna on this thing. Okay, I see the back and it interesting. I'm gonna have to I gotta find the specs on here. I'm trying to find the exact Okay, let's see. I would assume that it has a way to plug in the antenna. Let's see. Okay, TV tuner. Yes, it does have a TV tuner, so you are good to go. And so you would just plug in that antenna and you can use it as a regular TV. Now what I would do for the first time you set this up. Do you have the hotspot feature on your phone or no?