Amazon sets yet another Prime Day.

I'll tell you why.

This one involves chicken nuggets.

Meta has a new pair of smart glasses with a display built in, and you can get them sooner than you might think.

The new iPhones are available now, plus iOS twenty six.

I'll share my review and tips, plus your tech questions answered.

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All right, we've got a lot of great guests this week packed show.

Victoria's Song from the Verge is going to join us to talk all about Meta's new smart glasses.

They've got a new pair of smart glasses with a tiny display in the in the lenses, so that's gonna be interesting.

And Victoria war them, so we'll hear her take on that and a friend of the show, Caleb Dennison, you know him for his TV reviews.

He has started his own YouTube channel called Calebrated and he's gonna talk.

Oh, I just got that, get it calibrated, calbraided, Ah, I just got it.

He's gonna talk all about the best TVs not only for watching football, but just in general.

And of course I'm gonna ask him some of the best brands and some of the budget and splurge picks as well.

And later in the show, Evan Rapaport, former Google Moonshot executive and founder of Amphibian, is gonna share his new app called nature Me, which is helping people reconnect with nature through eyes open mindfulness.

All right, that sounds pretty interesting.

Welcome to the show, live from Las Vegas today.

Yes, I am in Las Vegas for the iHeartRadio Festival.

The music festival is a two day event and it is a lot of fun.

I've been to these events before.

It's a lot of artists, a lot of just a lot of team you know.

It's at the T Mobile Arena.

iHeartRadio just knows how to throw a party and it's just great.

So it's a lot of fun.

It's always a challenge to do a remote show because you never know if everything's gonna work out properly.

But hopefully we are broadcasting to you right now.

You're hearing my voice and everything is working out.

Because you know me, I like to do the show live, no matter what.

I don't want to do a show that's not live because I like to hear from you.

I like to challenge myself in doing this live, no matter where I am.

And it's been a while, by the way, since we've done a remote show.

So let's talk about the iPhone.

So last week I told you all about them, but I had to kind of hold back just a little bit because I was not able to share my full review.

But now the embargoes are up.

Yes, I've been using the iPhone since they announced it back on September ninth, and it is incredible.

Every single model this year, iPhone seventeen, iPhone Air, the iPhone seventeen Pro, and Promax Apple hit it out of the park.

I am telling you the bottom line, if you want to upgrade your phone, if you're thinking about upgrading your phone, this is the year to do it.

iPhone seventeen, that base model at eight hundred dollars.

It is finally in a place where it is a really great phone for the money, and if you're trading in a phone, you're gonna get even more value out of that brighter screen, tougher display, less glare finally added, smoother scrolling, and video playback.

It also has a new ultra wide camera and that new selfie camera, which lets you take horizontal or vertical snapshots without turning the phone.

You can also zoom out a little bit to get a group shot, zoom in to get the selfie shot all or the solo shot, all without moving your phone horizontal or vertical.

Now, I will tell you I know Apple's selling that is a big feature.

I personally do not like that feature, but that does not take away from it.

I do not take selfies the way most people do.

Most people hold their iPhone vertically when they take a selfie.

I do not.

I hold it horizontally, and I'm always doing it that way.

I've done it that way forever.

I'm not gonna change my ways even with this new camera, because I think it is much easier to press that snapshot button, that shutter button when your phone is in a horizontal manner.

I don't understand how people press the shutter button when their phone is upright like vertical, because it just it's off balance to me.

But maybe I'll be proven wrong.

You're also getting double the storage from last year two hundred and fifty six gigabytes base for that eight hundred dollars, and you get faster charging.

So keep in mind on any of these phones that you upgrade to, if you want to take advantage of faster wired charging, you'll need to get a new power adapter.

It's a forty WAT adapter.

Apple sells one.

Of course you can get at third party, but you can use the same USBC cable.

You'll just need that new forty WAT adapter.

Now, when it comes to the iPhone Air, yes, it's super thin, it's super lightweight, it's got the faster Pro chip inside is one thousand dollars.

But this phone is really only for folks that value the form over functionality.

You're getting a great phone, but you're gonna be limited in your camera lens.

You only get one lens here, so limited zoom, no ultra wide.

And of course, if you're on your phone all the time, the battery life on this device is just not going to be as good as say the standard seventeen or Pro Pro models.

That's just the way it is.

It's a thin phone.

They have a snap on battery pack for ninety nine dollars.

But if you want something that's cool, unique, different, and you're a casual phone user, don't take a ton of pictures, it's gonna be a really nice phone.

Now here's what I really love the iPhone seventeen Pro and Promax.

I think that these are the best that Apple has ever made.

I know they say that every year, but this year I really truly feel like they just did such a great job at polishing what was already a great product.

But now I'm noticing the battery life is just really really good.

Combined with that faster charging is just I'm like going to sleep with like sixty percent battery at this point.

Redesigned backside so the back looks different.

People are noticing that, which is kind of cool.

The cameras are upgraded, so you're gonna get more zoom eight time zoom with more detail in both your wide angle shots and your zoom shots.

And this comes in two sizes.

So if you notice they did away with a plus size this year, so you get the iPhone seventeen and one size, then you get the iPhone Air and the larger screen, and the iPhone seventeen Pro and Promax that's where you get your choice of screen size, but basically the same specs minus of course the battery.

The battery is going to be bigger in the Promax.

Three colors, including that cosmic orange with not my favorite.

It's actually growing on me a little bit personally.

I'm the blue.

I like the blue.

But they've got the standard silver, the Cosmic Orange, and then of course the blue, and you can get up to two terabytes of storage.

So they did get a little bit of a price increase this year.

This phone does start at eleven hundred dollars this year, but you're still getting that two hundred and fifty six based storage.

If you want that two terabytes of storage, then you're talking two thousand dollars, which is you know, that's a lot of money.

It's like a little laptop in your pocket.

But you know, people love their phones and they really just you know, they use them for everything.

At this point, people are using their iPhone for you know, their computer, for writing, for their tablet.

It's just an all in one device, so people really value these things.

So overall, if you are thinking of upgrading, this is the year to do that.

All right, let's talk about iOS twenty six.

If you're not upgrading your phone, you're still getting this brand new iOS twenty six.

It's called Liquid Glass.

You don't have to update right away, so if you are happy with iOS eighteen, you can continue to run that on your phone.

Apple will keep pushing security updates to iOS eighteen for at least a while, so no worries there.

You can still say stay up to date security wise, with iOS eighteen, you're not going to get new features.

You'll have to go to iOS twenty six to get that.

In messages, you can now create poles by tapping the plus sign and looking at polls, and you can add your options, like if you're saying, hey, where should we go for vacation?

You could add a pole inside your conversation custom backgrounds.

People are already changing all the backgrounds on my conversations.

I've noticed you can just tap the name of the person or the group and update the background.

Of course, your friends have to update their software to see that as well.

Call screening.

I put this on my Instagram at rich On Tech.

This is probably the coolest new feature.

Unknown callers have to say who they are and why they're calling before your phone even rings, and that information is displayed on your lock screen.

That is a killer feature if you're trying to cut down on spam.

Keep in mind it will cut some of the regular phone calls that you get if that person is not in your contacts or you haven't interacted with them before.

So, for instance, a bunch of radio stations call me to do talkbacks, that number is not always in my phone, so that person when they call, they get, hey, rich is using call screening, Say your name and why you're calling.

And I asked the person and he said, oh, you're the second person that this has happened to me today.

So people are already understanding that this is a thing.

But you know, scammers are probably gonna do the same thing.

They're probably gonna say, you know something, some fake name and some fake reason.

They've got whold Assist, which will listen to hold music for you and alert you when someone picks up the clock.

You can now customize your snooze time one to fifteen minutes instead of nine photos, you can tap the new spatial icon to turn them into three D.

You can also make them a wallpaper that pops out of your screen.

That's pretty cool.

There is a duplicate finder in a photos app, which is fine.

You can find it under utilities.

It's very basic.

I still like my app Clever Cleaner, make sure you get the official one that will help you free up storage.

You can now create a ring tone from any supported audio file.

Just open up an audio file in the files app and share out and press create ringtne.

So all these songs that you have, if you have an MP three of them, you can now make them a ringtone.

This is something that used to take specialized software and way back in the day of the original iPhone.

Remember you had to pay like ninety nine cents and then a dollar twenty nine for a ringtone.

No, you can do it with any song now as long as you have that MP three or audio file of that song.

You'll also notice there are a few new apps.

There's a new preview app.

This lets you open PDF, scan documents, also fill out PDF.

So if your kid has a permission slip or something you can use use that Preview app to scan it, scan the paper and then sign it, fill it out, and then email it back to the teacher.

All right, from your phone.

There's also a new games app, and if you don't like the look and feel of liquid glass, I also posted this to my Instagram at rich on Tech.

You can turn on the reduce transparency option in your settings.

So let me just find the exact setting so I can tell you where it is.

So if you go to my Instagram at rich on Tech you can see this.

But basically go to settings and then accessibility display in tech size and you turn on the toggle for reduce transparency, and a lot of your menus and things will sort of look like the way they used to.

So there you have it.

iOS twenty six a whole bunch of other features coming out as well, but those are kind of the ones that I've identified that are pretty pretty cool.

All right.

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This is episode one forty.

Let's go to uh, let's just go to line one.

Dave in Long Beach.

Dave, you there, you're on with Rich.

Hello Dave?

Nope, we have Dave.

Okay, Well, you know I can't bring up the callers myself, so I am at the mercy of Bobo.

Okay, there he is, Hello Dave, what's up?

Welcome to the show.

Just got a new car?

No CD player?

Want to take all of my music, my downloads on CD and put them on a flash drive?

Is there a way I can do that?

Everything I've tried so far just really hasn't worked.

So do you okay, you're you're trying to take your CDs and rip them and then put them on a flash drive.

Yeah?

Yeah?

And do you have a CD player on your computer?

CD like a CD drive?

Oh yeah?

Oh okay, you have Windows or Mac Windows?

Okay.

Exact Audio Copy.

Exact Audio Copy is the app you need.

It's free.

You pop in the CD you rip the music, it'll it'll transform it into you know, the various formats whatever one you want.

You can do MP three, or you can do other formats, and then you would just take that and copy those files over to a flash drive, and then you would put that flash drive in your car.

Does your car have the ability to play a flash drive?

Oh?

Yeah, I've got some of them.

It's like, Okay, went to the Windows media Player, you know, went to the rip tab.

Okay, open that up there, you know, rip the cuts.

Okay, yeah, this says okay.

Now when I want to put this, it says, go back from you know, the the Windows media Player sub menu, go back to the main menu and put rip rip doesn't show.

Now, I've got some of them here, put them in playlists.

When I move those over to a flash drive, it either puts them all in ali you know, alphabetical order, which I don't want, or if I've got two separate discs in there, it takes the number one cut from the first disc and then the number one cut from the second disc.

I just want to be able to put these in a menu and just you know, burn them all to a flash drive.

Well, I mean, what you're talking about with the alphabetical that's just the way the files are being ordered on the Flask drive.

I mean, when you drag them over, Windows is going to put them in alphabetical order.

I assume you're gonna be.

I mean, it depends on your car.

Like if your car supports a folder on the Flask drive that you can browse through to play these songs.

You know, that may or may not be the case.

Like it may just say, hey, we can shuffle these.

It may also not read the exact menu or I guess the folder structure that you've put them on that Flask drive with.

So it sort of depends on your car in that aspect.

Now, when it comes to the same song, I mean, this is a pretty straightforward process.

So, I mean when it comes to the songs, if you're ripping them to the CD to the hard drive, you can copy those over in a folder on the Flask drive and you can try that.

Like let's say you have David Bowie album.

You put David Bowie on the Flask drive.

You drag those songs over.

Now you do another album, you know whoever, Don Henley Eagles, you put that you know Eagles on there and then you put the songs, you drag them over so that your car may or may not read that structure of the folder.

It may just shuffle.

It really depends on the car.

So these are the things that you know, it sort of depends on the car.

At this point.

This is something that I feel like was done a lot more before.

It's probably not done as often anymore because now everyone's just streaming and using apps and things like that.

You can also consider just using your phone.

So a really easy way to do this, Dave is just using YouTube music.

So if you go to music dot YouTube dot com, and I know this is not going to be on a flask drive, but you can actually upload your own songs.

If you just drag them onto that website, it'll just put them into your library.

And then if you can connect your phone to your car with Bluetooth, you can just play your own music right off of YouTube music and you can you know, so it's a much simpler way instead of doing this whole flask drive.

As you create those songs, those MP three's, you can just literally drag them onto this website music dot YouTube dot com.

It will upload them into your library and then on your phone.

Like I said, if you have Bluetooth, you can just bluetooth those right from your phone.

So there's a lot of ways to do this.

I know, it's it's funny that you said, I bought a new car and I don't have a CD drive anymore.

It's become it's just not a thing anymore.

I mean, these cars, it's more about the streaming.

It's more about the satellite.

It's more about all the different ways that people you know, used to be auxiliary input.

That was the thing that you wanted on a car.

It's like if your car had auxiliary it's like, ah, this is great.

I don't have to use an FM tuner because you had an FM tuner at one point, you know, where you had to broadcast to your car.

I mean, it's evolved a lot, and I think that this is something that can still be done.

It's just probably not a huge priority for the car makers anymore with these flash drives.

So anyway, try the methods I mentioned see if they work for you.

Eight eight eight rich one oh one.

Thanks for the call.

Eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Coming up, we're gonna talk to Victorious song from the Verge right here on rich on Tech.

Welcome back to rich On Tech.

Rich Tomuro 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, coming to you live from Las Vegas today.

Thanks for being with me.

If you want to look at show notes, it's all on the website rich On Tech dot TV.

Uh.

We have a Victoria's song from the Verge here senior reviewer, and she was actually at the big Meta event this week and they had a couple of demos, They had a couple of new products, and she is here to talk all about them.

Victoria, thanks so much for joining me today.

Thanks for having me.

All Right, So, I've not been to a meta event.

I've been to Google, I've been to Apple, I've been to Amazon.

They all have a little bit of a different kind of flare to them.

What is the sense in the room at a meta event?

This one was a bit weird because it was my first Meta connect in person.

I've covered them remotely before, but it was a little bit chaotic, if I'm honest, just because in that room there were a couple of failed demos sparked a lot of talk about the virtues of having kind of the pre recorded demos that we've seen from Apple since you know, twenty twenty and the pandemic era kind of changed the vibe of live events.

But this one it was all.

Live, and there there were some true failures.

Of wait, there was more than one failure because I saw like one little video like you made, like Mark Zuckerberg tried to make a video call.

Well wait, hell, I'm back up for one second.

Explain what medic Connect is like what they do an event once a year called Meta Connect.

What does that mean exactly?

Medic Connect is kind of their version of the fall product launch.

It usually kind of is an update on their metaverse, you know, undertakings.

But in the last couple of years they've also kind of pivoted to launching and talking about their smart glasses hardware, which is what I cover.

So you know, last year they had the transparent ray Band Meta Glasses, and this year they had three new smart glasses to unveiled everyone.

The first and I think the one that everyone is talking about the most is the Meta ray Band Display, which is their first glasses with the heads up display in one of the lenses.

They had the Oakley Meta Vanguard, which is basically wrap around smart glasses for athletes.

And then they had the ray Band Meta Gen two, which is a slightly updated version of the regular ray band metas that they've had for the last couple of years.

Wait, so the one pair is called the Meta ray Band Display and then the other ones are the ray Band Meta Gen two.

Oh yes, yes, that was kind of Yeah.

When they told me that, I was like, are you guys serious?

My editors have been like very much sticklers for getting the name right, and now you're just gonna flip it on them.

For this one product.

Yeah.

It caused a little bit of a hubbulb.

I think among all the journalists they're going like, wait a minute, you're changing the name on us.

Why?

But yeah, so that is the thing that they did.

So you tried these glasses on the Meta ray Band display and these are basically they look like ray bands, a little bit thicker in the sides and you know, around the lenses and there is a tiny display in there.

What was it like to put these on?

I was quite shocked because the display is very visible.

It goes up to five thousand minus of brightness and the all those glasses automatically come with transition lenses.

So one problem that we've had with smart glasses through the years is ambient light.

So if you're in a very bright room or if you're outside on a very sunny day, the display tends to get washed out.

And that's something that I've seen scene with a lot of different smart glasses prototypes that I've tested over the years, different methods of making the display visible to people.

Ambient light is a huge problem.

And I wore these.

I was able to go outside with them.

Okay, did I look at the sun and did it get washed out?

Yes?

Do I recommend that everyone looked directly at the sun?

Absolutely not.

Don't do it.

I did it for you.

But if I'm looking anywhere besides directly at the sun, you can see the display, which is it's a huge step forward in terms of that technology.

But the display also enables a lot of different hands free computing that you know, if you remember the original Google Glass Sizzle reel, it feels very reminiscent of that.

So you can get your text messages on there.

You can if a friend sends you a link to an Instagram reels, you can watch it directly from your glasses.

You can watch an Instagram reels on your glasses.

Now, yes, you can, got the picture is quite clear.

You can take video calls.

I had the demo.

I was able to VEHO call on like Zuckerberg on stage, and it worked.

And I felt a little bit like a spy in that moment because I could see my colleague in this video call, and because these are camera camera glasses, they could see everything that I was seeing as well.

So I was like, oh my god, I feel like a super spy.

If I were to steal corporate see information in a bank heist or something like that, this is maybe how they would do it in a James Bond or sci fi movie.

So it felt sort of like that.

I could see live captions.

So if I'm talking to a bunch of people in a crowded room, the person I'm looking at, if I turn the live captions on, I could see subtitles for what they're saying.

And the amazing thing to me was because the microphones are multidirectional, cross talk didn't matter, so there were multiple people talking at me in the room, but the only person being captioned was the one I was directly looking at and I think that's going to be huge for people who are hard of hearing or in deaf communities.

That's pretty wild to see for me.

And there were a couple of other demos.

Yeah, back to the screen.

Is it so bright that it's like really bright in your eye?

Because I feel like you're saying this is like up to five thousand nits.

It sounds like there's a screen there or is it sort of like projected out into the world more like that.

No, it's like a little screen that's an extension of what you could expect to see from a phone menu, so similar to what you might see in a smart watch.

But the brightness is adjustable.

It goes up to five thousand mints in the event that you're outside in very bright lighting, but if you're indoors, it's not going to be five thousand that's burning into your eyeball.

It adjusts based on the environment that you're in.

It can go as low as thirty nits depending So it was quite impressive to me because there's also only two percent light leakage.

And what that means is if you're looking directly at me and I have these glasses on, you will not be able to see any hint of a display.

Doesn't matter what angle I'm looking at, doesn't matter how the light is catching the glass on my eye, you won't be able to see a thing.

You might be able to tell that my eyes are not fully present, or that I'm not quite looking at you, because the way the display is, it's a monocular display, which means it's only in the right lens, and it's not directly centered.

It's a little bit off to the side.

So you do have kind of a situation.

And I have a YouTube video online through the verge that you can kind of look at, but you can kind of see that my eye you can kind of tell I'm not fully there.

My colleagues that I kind of had a dead eye look to me, a little distracted, And we were both talking about like how crazy that might be in terms of societal implications, because we're already saying stuff like put your phone away when we're at dinner, or like, you know, I think I make the effort to put my phone down when I'm trying to be present with my friends.

But even with smart watches, you know, people know that if you're glancing at your smart watch you're probably just looking at a notification, but it's a moment where you're distracted.

Uh, this is I was at breakfast yesterday and you know, I'm getting all these notifications on my watch, and like you want to look because you want to see what they are.

But like, if you're glancing at your watch during a conversation, it's really distracting to the other person and it's quite mean.

Actually, what about this band that you wear on your wristband?

This neural band was that easy to control?

Yeah, So the neural band uses something called electromiography, which means it reads the signals from your muscles, like you're the electrical signals and your muscles, And based on that, you have a set of gesture controls that you can use to control the display.

So like if you pinch your index finger once, that'll select something in a menu.

If you pinch your middle finger ONTs that'll that's kind of like a back button.

If you pinch your middle finger twice, that brings up and dismisses the display.

So there's a couple of different things you can do.

You can sort of make a fist and rotate it to the side and start swiping with your thumb like it's a dpad if you've used game controllers, and that'll help you scroll up down through menus if you want to up the volume, or zoom in when you're framing a picture, because that's something you can do now, is that you can zoom in three times and snap a photo.

You just kind of you're selling me all these things.

You're Okay, we got about a minute left, so I want to get to the pricing.

It's eight hundred dollars.

And by the way, this is you mentioned accessibility before.

Even the band is good for people I'm reading with limited mobility, tremors, or even if you don't have all of your fingers too, So that's I mean, people are going to find a lot of uses for this outside of kind of like the standard what they've thought of, which I always find really interesting.

Eight hundred dollars available September thirtieth at best Buy, Lens Crafters, Sunglass, hut Ray Band Stores, Verizon store later.

Do you think people should pick up the first generation of these devices?

A It really depends.

If you're a first adopter, I think you might go a little crazy because it seems like a lot of fun but you know, it really depends on whether you find the glasses form factor interesting because I know people who are like I have twenty twenty vision.

Why would I do this?

And you know what fair I think if you're a tech nerd and you're interested in hands free computing, especially, this might be something up your alley.

If you're just trying to log off, maybe don't spend eight hundred dollars on something like this.

But it is a very exciting movement in this particular form factor.

I'm eager to get my hands on a pair to see how it actually works in real life because, as I mentioned, there were some real filled demos on stage, so we got to see how it performs in real life settings before I feel confidence saying go out, spend eight hundred dollars on this.

Yeah, all right, there you have it, Victoria Song from the Verge.

What's the best place to follow you?

VICM Song on Instagram?

Yeah, I'm on every single social media platform you can think of with the same handle at Victimsong, So that's where you can find me.

Thanks for joining me today.

Eighty to eight Rich one O one more of your calls coming up next.

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All right, let's take a call.

Let's go to Connie in Idaho.

Connie online too, you're on with.

Rich Oh hi, thanks for taking my call.

Absolutely and having a weird thing going on with my emails in my trash, I go through and I delete my emails and I clear my trash every couple of days.

I've got one hundred and thirty two emails from April, the end of April to like mid May of twenty twenty two that I cannot get rid of.

I clear them and they appear to be gone.

You know where it says select all all your trash goes away.

They appear to be gone, and then like later in the afternoon, they'll show up again.

Oh my god, these are like ghost emails.

I know, it's just it's a crash.

I mean, I've tried going through and like eliminating one at a time to swipe them off.

And you're sure you don't need these emails.

There's there's not a force in the world that's like, hey, you need these emails, Connie read them.

No, No, they're just they're they just don't their advertisements or in a Little League schedule or a Bible update or Ranger Rick advertisement.

It's nothing, nothing important at all.

How are you checking these emails?

What's the platform and what's the service?

Like?

Are you checking these on your phone and are using Gmail?

Yahoo?

Well, that's a weird thing, Okay, it is.

They are present on my iPad and it's a Gmail account, but when I check the trash on my phone day Gmail account, they're not there.

Okay, we're only on my chapolt.

Okay.

So here's what's happening you you and you are you checking these through the Gmail app?

Or are you checking them through the mail app on the on the iPad?

Uh?

Through the Mail app?

Okay, all right.

It sounds like it sounds like when you first set up this account, it's just not in sync with your with your system anymore, like your actual base like Gmail.

So a couple things to look at.

Number one, I would go to your well.

Number one, I would delete this account off of your iPad and reinstall it.

And I think that's going to solve your problem.

Number one, So go into settings on the iPad and go into let's see they've changed everything.

So you got to go into apps, I believe, and let's see where it says.

Is it mail?

Okay, I'm looking right now on my phone to see if they have it this way.

Yeah.

So you go into mail and then you'll see Mail accounts and just go ahead and delete the Gmail account.

It's not going to get rid of anything.

It's not going to delete your Gmail forever.

It's not going to delete your Google account.

It's just going to delete that connection off of your iPad and then restart your iPad and then go back to Mail and add that account fresh.

And I think that's going to solve your problem, because it sounds like this app just got kind of stuck and the sink got all messed up and it's just not sinking properly.

That's what I think happened.

The way to check this is also to go to Gmail dot com on the web and if the emails are not there, like if those emails are actually trashed and gone, then it was just an issue on this iPad.

And I think that's going to solve like ninety nine point nine percent of this problem.

In fact, I think it's that's going to be the solution Now, if you go to your Gmail on the computer and those those emails are still there, They're still in your inbox, they're still in your trash whatever it is, then I would go and manually delete them from your Gmail on the web.

So you have to understand when when you're checking your email, there's a lot of ways that apps interact with that email program.

So a lot of times when you set up that email connection to an app, an app might say, okay, every time I delete this email, you go ahead and delete it on your end.

Sometimes that connection just gets a little messed up and it sounds like that sink got off, and so the email program on the computer is saying, Hm, we're looking for these emails and you're deleting them, but we're not finding them on the serve, and we're just gonna leave them here again, or we're gonna put them back here, or we're just confused, so we're gonna leave them there.

That is what I think is happening with you, Connie, And I think that if you delete that connection to the email, it's gonna be fine.

The alternative here if it continues to happen even after you do what I just mentioned, which is disconnecting and reconnecting.

You can just go ahead and download the Gmail app on your iPad and you can manage your emails from there.

I personally like to do it that way because then I get all the full features of Gmail on my iPad or my iPhone versus the features that Apple gives me in their mail app, because Apple's Mail app is just a way of viewing your Gmail account and it's gonna have slight variations from the features that Google gives you themselves.

And so personally, when I'm on the computer online, I like to go directly to Gmail dot com.

I don't like to use a third party app because many of them sink these days pretty well.

But I like having the full what I call native functionality of Gmail as they envisioned it for me, And these third party apps are just kind of viewing your Gmail account through their own lens, and sometimes whatever's happening on that particular program is not necessarily sinking or matching up with what Gmail has.

What Gmail has at their base at mail dot Google dot com, orgmail dot com is what's actually happening in your account.

So if those emails are gone from the Gmail website from the Gmail app.

That's what you want to make sure is happening and you can identify the problem is happening on your iPad.

Thanks for the call.

Eight eight eight rich one on one.

Coming up after the break, Amazon Prime Big Deal Days returns.

I'll tell you when and what's going to be on sale.

Coming up next, 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 to two four one zero one.

We got lots more of the show for you, including some great guests coming up this hour.

We've got Caleb Dennison.

He is going to talk about his new YouTube channel, Caleb Raided, and he's gonna give us some of his top picks for TVs.

He is always a great guest.

He's been on his show several times and just always brings a wealth of knowledge about TVs.

In fact, the TV that I bought was one that he recommended on this very show.

Was it last year, and I've absolutely loved it.

It was a great high sense TV and people come over and they just always comment on how bright and beautiful the screen is.

So we'll get some great tips from Caleb, and of course all of your tech news and information here, plus your questions at triple eight rich one oh one.

We're gonna go to calls in just a second, but I did want to tell you about man yet another Anchor power bank recall.

I cannot believe this.

I've recommended Anchor so many times over the years, and they're starting to disappoint me because this is at least the third recall that I can remember in the past year or so.

But they're recalling another four hundred and eighty one thousand power banks with model numbers A sixteen forty seven, sixteen fifty two, twelve fifty seven, sixteen eighty one, and sixteen eighty nine.

These were sold at best Buy, Target, Amazon, Walmart and more places between August twenty twenty three and June twenty twenty five.

The batteries can overheat.

So far, there's been thirty three reports of fires and explosions for burn injuries one property damage.

If you have one, do not use it.

Verify the serial number on Anchor's website.

You can register for a refund or an Anchor gift card, and you can't just throw these in the regular recycling.

You got to contact the hazardous waste center in your area for safe disposal.

What a pain that is, huh?

I mean, what the heck?

I love my anchor charger.

I use it.

I use it everywhere every day.

And to think that, you know, this company has had kind of a lot of issues with these things recently, does not give me a lot of faith.

So check the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website, the anchor website for the latest recall.

They've got a bunch of them on there now.

There's like three active recalls.

So check your anchor power bank to make sure it's not recalled.

You do not want to have any sort of issue with those.

All right, Let's go to line number one erin in Missouri.

Aaron, You're on with Rich.

Hey, Rich, how you doing today?

I'm doing fantastic.

Thanks for asking.

How can I help?

All Right?

So I've lost access to my phone.

Okay, I broke the phone and that phone number has my email account, which is a Gmail account attached to it.

Well, I have all my Crypto dot Com all of my stock prograge stuff on there, and so I have the two factor authentication.

She's popping up on me and I don't think I set that up on my Gmail account.

So when I try to log into my Gmail account, I got my password, I've got my email address.

That's all fine, But then it pops the two factor authentication, which I don't remember ever setting up.

Actually, well, yeah.

They're yeah, they're they're doing that by themselves now because people are too lazy.

So they've just Google has taken it upon themselves to just say, hey, we're going to try to authorize you as as many times as we can because we want to keep your account, your account secure.

What kind of pop up is it?

Is it like a pop up that says, hey, can you check your other account or your other device that you're logged.

In on, or check the phone number that I no longer have access to?

And uh, it's so that that kind of stops.

Me right there.

Suck.

Yeah, okay, that is a problem.

Uh, and it's something that I mean, look, I get it.

It's and this is a this is a big fear of mine getting locked out of a major account like this because, as you said, this has got all of your data in there.

So the the thing to know.

Okay, so a couple of things.

I'm I'm just trying to go through the process of of how to get back into this Google account without having that backup phone number.

So number one, if you ever saved backup codes for your account, you can use those to log in.

It doesn't sound like you have those, but yeah, this is really tricky.

So number one, there's a couple ways that Google tries to authenticate you.

When you get to that screen and it says we're going to text you a phone number.

Obviously you can't get access to that number.

So there might be after you wait a little bit, a thing where it says try other options, so look for that.

It might be small, it might be in smaller writing.

You might also have to try to do this twice before that comes up, so that's one option.

Number two, you can try signing in from another device that you've already signed in from, so if you've been on your computer and do this at a location that you're typically at.

So don't try to sign in to your Google account from a friend's phone in a different city because Google is going to flag that.

And so I would try logging in, you know, on your home computer to Google dot com and seeing if that helps, and doing this on a computer, see you know, see what options they give you for logging in.

That's another way to do it.

If none of those things work, you can go to your Google recovery and so Google has a special page for recovery, which is g dot co slash recover g dot co slash recover.

And you're going to put in your email and you're going to try to answer as many questions as you can, so don't skip them.

It's going to ask you a bunch of stuff, and again, use that same computer and browser and location that you normally sign in from, whether that's home or work.

If if you if it asks you if your last password, you can enter your most recent one that you remember.

Even if you know an older password, It will still remember those and try to help you get into your account.

And it also might ask if you have another email address on the account or another phone number on account, so Google can reach you if they want to do this.

So if you try to do that and you get into your account, that's great.

If they can't verify you right away, Google might say, hey, we're going to take three to five business days to confirm you.

I know this sounds wild, but this is the way they do it because you know, Google has a lot writing on your account.

You've got all your emails, you've got all your photos, you've got everything locked in there.

They want to make sure they're not just giving a random person access to your account.

So that's what I recommend to do, arin to try that recovery, because that's really your only choice at this point, because you just don't have another way to get that two factor authentication code from your phone that you no longer have access to.

This is probably the number one tip for the rest of you.

If you have access to your accounts right now, for big accounts that you set up two factor authentication codes for, there are several ways of doing this.

Number one, I never recommend using a phone number for your two factor authentication.

Why Aaron just gave us the reason.

You can lose access to that phone number.

You change phone numbers, your phone number gets simswapped, it gets hacked, whatever happens, someone can get access to that phone number.

Now they have access to your two factor authentication code.

Or if you lose access to that phone number, now you factor authentication code.

So I always recommend a two factor authentication app, and the one I like right now is called Proton Authenticator because it is free.

It is cross platform, which means it works the same on iPhone on Android.

It is amazing that dimension.

It's free.

And also you can sign in to Proton or not, So if you want to just use it locally, you can, and you can just use it on your Android.

You could just use it on your iPhone.

If you want to sign in with your Proton account, you can do that.

And now your codes are synced across your devices, which I really like.

Or you can export your codes and use a different program later on, or you can just download your codes and back them up yourself to iCloud or drive.

So it really gives you a lot of options into how you control your backup codes, which I really really like.

So that's the way I like to do that.

And then basically, when you go to log into something like a Google, it says, hey, give us your two factor authentication code.

You open up that app on your phone.

Every thirty seconds, it's generating a new code, just like those texts you get, except it's on your phone, You look at it and you type in that code, and that's much more secure than getting those SMS messages.

Okay, So that's the number one tip.

Number two, go into your main accounts and get backup codes.

These are backup codes that you typically get when you set up two factor authentication.

But you can go into your account like a Facebook, like an Instagram, like a Google, like an Apple, and you can just search let's just search Google backup codes, and you search that and you'll see the first Google help support document says sign in with backup codes, and it tells you how to get them.

You go to your Google account on the left.

You click security, you collect, you click two step verification and backup codes.

And what they're gonna do is they're gonna give you a set of numbers.

You take those numbers and you save them, print them out, put them in your password manager, whatever you want.

It's a whole bunch of codes.

And those codes will function as a two factor authentication code when you need to get back into your account, so they're called recovery codes.

You can print them out, put them in your safe at home.

Do this for your big accounts.

Please.

That way you do not have to get locked out of your account, and you have lots of different ways of doing that.

All right, great call, Great question, Aaron I'm sorry you're locked out.

I hope that some of those recovery methods will work for you.

Really appreciate the call today eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Coming up, we'll talk Amazon Prime Day, Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is return.

I'll tell you when that's happening, and how you can get free chicken nuggets for like ten days, yeah, twenty one days of free chicken nuggets.

I'll tell you that coming up.

Please welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here, Sorry about that hanging out with you talking technology notes Vegas.

I'm like filled with cigarette smoke in this casino, my gosh eighty eight rich one o one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Remind me to stay at a smoke free casino next time.

That's my advice.

I usually stay in the same place every time, changed it up, and I forgot that not all casinos are smoked free except for the one I stay at typically, So note to sell for next time.

I did not realize that the world has not changed in Las Vegas.

We got an email.

By the way, I noticed a lot of you going to the website for the anchor recall information, and I did not put that up on the show notes.

It's there now episode one.

Rich on tech dot tv.

I've got the anchor recall linked up so you can check to see if yours is affected.

So Rich on tech dot tv Show Notes, episode one forty.

Then we got an email from Dave.

He says, hey, Rich will exact audio copy.

This is back to the ripping CDs for the car.

On the show earlier, he said exact audio copy is a great way way to rip CDs.

It does not add MP three tags.

My car plays songs from a flash drive.

It's a twenty twenty four Grand Cherokee with cover art, album name, and artist names.

It will sort by album or artist name, but the songs need to be tagged first, so I use EAC to rip the songs and then use MP three tag to tag them.

The program will actually find what the album is just by looking at the rip songs.

There you go, MP three tag.

We talked about this on I Feel Like a recent show.

MP three tag dot de E, MP three tag dot d E Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime T Big Deal Days returns October seventh and eighth.

I don't really know what to talk about when it comes to Prime Days anymore, except it seems to happen every other week at this point.

But my advice continues to be the same.

If you're looking for something that you want to purchase on Amazon that's kind of a big purchase or something you don't need right away, just put it in your shopping car save it for later.

That way, when October seventh and eighth rolls around, you can just look and see if the price is dropped on the things you actually want versus just trying to find stuff to buy.

So again, Amazon Prime Day, October seventh, October eighth, you do need to be a Prime member.

They've got three levels of Prime membership now Prime for fifteen bucks a month or one thirty nine a year Prime for young adults.

This is for the eighteen to twenty four year olds.

You know, they're trying to grow that market there because they just cut off the prime household sharing.

The households used to be able to share with, you know, like another person's that lives somewhere else, no matter who they were, but they Amazon cut that off as of October first, I think, so now young adults can pay seven dollars and forty nine cents a month or sixty nine dollars a year.

Right now, they're giving a zero dollar six month trial and then Prime Access.

If you're on any sort of government benefit program, you can get Prime Access for seven dollars a month.

And then I talked about this chicken nugget deal.

So through grub Hub Plus you can get twenty one days of free McDonald's chicken nuggets September fifteenth through October fifth.

So you're already you're already a couple days behind.

You've already missed out on a couple of days of nuggets.

Man, I'm really uh, let's just go to let's let Andy talk here.

Let's go to line one Andy in Los Angeles, and you're on.

With rich Ty Ridge.

Thanks for being here.

I think it should be a pretty simple question, but I have I want to take photos from my iPad and put them onto my Microsoft Studio prode To computer, and the computer will not recognize my iPad.

I've tried every kind of cable that I can and it just won't seem to recognize it.

And Microsoft has not been able to help me with this.

I wonder if you had any ideas well.

I mean, look, I think I think the easiest way, the easiest way to do this is I mean, you you can troubleshoot all you want to try to figure out how to see the photos from there.

But there's a great app called local Send l O C A L S E n D dot org.

You install that on your iPad, you install that on your computer, and you can send the photos that way really easily and quickly, just over your wireless network.

So it's cross platform, it's free, it's open source, and it's just a really simple easy way to send things from one device to another, especially when you've got people like Apple that don't necessarily play nice with other devices.

Now, there are some other ways you can do this.

There is an iCloud app for Windows which may help you get these photos from your iPad onto your Windows PC.

I don't use that personally, so I can't tell you how easy it is.

But that's another option.

It's you know, access your photos, your videos, your mail, your calendar, your files, another important information on your Windows PC.

Now that's uh, those are two options for you.

But I think the local Send is probably going to be the easiest to do this.

Uh, you know, I gotta.

I feel like when you plug your phone into the Windows computer, it should just like automatically see it and recognize it and say do you want to import these things?

But maybe that's not the case.

So that's something I'm gonna have to investigate a little bit more and I'll check it out.

I'll plug in my iPad and see what it says.

But it could be the only thing I can think of is that when you first plugged in your iPad that you did you you might have checked don't trust this device.

So typically when you plug in an iPhone or an I pad into a computer, it asks you to trust this computer, all right, sorry, trust this DEVI Uh yeah, trust this computer.

So if you don't have that, I'm trying to figure out.

Let's see here.

Uh.

When you connect your iPhone, your ipadd or iPod touch to a computer or other device for the first time, an alert message asks you whether you trust the computer.

Trusted computers can sync with your device and access your device's photos, videos, contacts, and other content.

These computers remain trusted unless you change the computers which you trust.

So okay, so here's how you change your trusted computer.

So if you if you said no, don't trust this computer one time, it's always going to remember that.

So you can go to settings, tap general, tap transfer or reset device tap reset, and then tap reset Location and Privacy.

And now when you connect that computer again, it's going to you know, it's going to give you that pop up again.

So it's gonna, you know, resetting your location and privacy is going to switch some other things.

It's gonna kind of clear some other settings.

But if you really want this to work, Andy, I think that's the way the best chance of getting that to work again.

It sounds to me like this computer just is not trusted, is not a trusted device for this iPad eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero And coming up, we're gonna talk TVs.

Which ones are best with Caleb Denisin.

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.

Uh.

The phone lines are open.

We'll get to more news on your questions in a little bit.

But we've got a great guest joining us.

We've got Caleb Denison of his new YouTube channel, Caleb Rated, which I just got when I was saying Caleb's name in the intro earlier.

Caleb is a longtime TV reviewer.

He just branched out on his own.

So welcome to the show.

Oh what happened to Caleb?

You guys are muted?

I don't know.

Oh, there you go, Now, there we go.

Okay, I'm sure you said amazing things just now, rich I did.

I just We're actually done with the interview, so thank you for joining me.

Really appreciate it.

Now I'm just kidding.

So Caleb, it's Caleb.

Tell me about the you went off on your own recently.

Yeah, it was kind of a mess, but you figured it out and you have your own YouTube channel.

Huh yeah.

Yeah, you know, I wanted to honestly, I wanted to own my own content and just kind of paved my own way.

You know.

I worked with some amazing folks for a long time, built something really awesome, a little over one point three million subscribers on that channel.

Not gonna lie, it was hard to leave that, but I felt like I wanted to move in some different directions that were kind of uniquely me and not necessarily well suited to a larger organization.

And so, yeah, I struck out on my own.

That did not go as smoothly as I know.

But no, it did that.

No it did not.

That is putting it lightly.

But you know, the past is the past.

We're moving forward.

And yes, I have a new YouTube channel.

Got my first TV review coming out on it Tuesday morning, as a.

Matter of fact, So you can keep an eye out for that.

And if you want to find me on YouTube, you can just look up a librated, which is a little bit of a play on my name Caleb and rated.

You can also think of it as a play I'm calibrated or celebrated if you prefer.

Yeah, love it.

So you've been reviewing TVs for a long time.

I mentioned earlier that the TV that I have you mentioned on this show one of the earlier times you've been on.

So what is the latest trend in TVs right now?

What are we seeing that's new?

Well, okay, so the newest technology is actually a new backlight technology for the LCD green that we've had for decades in our home, and that is where we've finally gotten individual red, green, and blue back lights behind the TV, and long story short, it makes for a brighter, far more colorful TV.

I mean, colors you've never seen on a TV before you can now see and it's it's absolutely amazing to behold.

It's very tricky technology to pull off.

It's very much in its infancy, and it's only in the most expensive TVs.

But as with all new tech, it eventually filters down over the years into less and less expensive TVs.

And I'm really excited with where things are going.

But yeah, you'll hear a lot about you know, micro RGB or mini RGB, led that kind of thing.

And you know, there's so many acronyms in the TV world you can easily get get very very confusing.

Just know that on a broader trend, the one that's more meaningful to most people is that TV's are getting better and better while also getting less and less expensive.

You know.

Parents notwithstanding still unflear you know how that kind of thing might impact the pricing of the television.

But what I'm looking at right now are price is very similar.

To last year.

Okay, that's good to hear.

What do you think the best technology is for someone to get?

I mean, because I know oled so it's always like old versus everything else is OLED's still the best.

So the OLED technology is the best at a lot of things, right, it's the best at the black levels.

It just has the most impressive contrast.

They've gotten much much brighter over the past few years.

They're just spectacular to behold.

I think anybody who walks into an electronics store and season OLED TV is immediately drawn to this TV.

It just stands out.

The problem is OLED technology is expensive to make.

It's really expensive to make, and so the pricing on those TVs has not come down a lot.

Also, there's a limit to the size.

We're seeing a lot of people warming up to eighty five inch TVs, sometimes even ninety eight inch TVs.

If you can even believe that you're not going to touch an o Lead TV over seventy seven inches for less than five figures, I mean, it's just not doable.

So very Old is very exciting and we love it.

It's just not the most practical choice for folks, either in terms of cost or rightness.

If you watch TV a lot during the day with sun just flowing through the windows, oh, LED TVs can start to look a little washed out and so yes, o led TVs capture your eye and your imagination at the store, but they're not always the most practical solution for folks.

I think right now, Mini led TVs, that's tiny penny, little Mini LED backlightes on an LCDTV are doing just a wonderful amazing things and again contributing toward the driving down of prices even at really really large screen sizes, which I think.

Is a win for everybody.

Yeah, so Mini led look for that.

So what is kind of your favorite?

Do you have a favorite?

Like Splurge TV right now?

Like I mean, is Sony still the tops?

Like, what's the deal with the top of the line TVs?

Oh my gosh, Well, Sony charges you know in the in in my little niche, we like to refer to the Sony tax.

Sony does charge a premium for its stuff, but man, it's just got that polish on it.

You know what I mean.

And So for the eagle eyed among us, Yeah, I really really like the Sony Brabia nine.

I think it's an outstanding television and I think Sony will have some surprises for us in the years to come.

But that TV is gonna it's gonna stand the test of time.

I think the Sony Brabia nine is just a really incredible TV.

I also have to.

Mention that Samsung has this absolute beast of a thing.

It is a one hundred and fifteen inch micro RGB beacklet TV.

It is not affordable, like most people couldn't even fit it in their homes.

But man, I mean, if you had plenty of money to send in a gigantic space, that Samsung one hundred and fifteen inch TV will knock your socks off.

Wow.

Well, okay, let's bring this down to the average person, you know, the people that can actually afford these things.

So let's talk about like a more like thousand dollars range and then maybe like a five hundred dollars range.

Because you know, I was talking to my dad.

He went into Costco the other day to buy a TV, and it's like he's like, I got this TV for five hundred and fifty dollars.

Is it fine?

I was like, well, you know, the refresh rate is a little bit low depending on what they watch, you know, but A right, you tell me, what do.

You think I mean?

In the thousand dollars neighborhood, you can get an exceptional TV.

At around sixty five inches, you can get an absolutely exceptional TV.

The two brands that are bringing the highest performance for the dollar right now are TCL and High Sense.

I think those brands.

Are a little bit more familiar to folks now than they were, say, two years ago, but the quality and the reliability just keeps getting better and better.

And yeah, I mean there's a TCL you I'm sorry.

Yeah, TCL QM seven K and a High Sense U eight both are living between nine hundred and eleven hundred dollars for the sixty five inch model.

Right you can step down in a model and get a little bit larger of a size, or you can step down in a size and save yourself some money.

But right around that sixty five I like to use the sixty five inch because it tends to be the most approachable and popular screen size in homes today.

So yeah, the TCL and High Sense models that I just mentioned, the QM seven K and the U eight both just outstanding TVs.

At the thousand dollars level.

You can also get a really great TV for about five hundred bucks.

When I talk about how excellent those two TVs are at the thousand dollars level.

I'm talking about folks who are extremely picky who want to just get their socks knocked off by their TV.

It's that level.

You can get an amazing TV for about five hundred bucks.

But again, I'm going to point to the TCL and the High Sense brands as offering the best picture quality for the price.

When you start looking.

At your Samsung and to some degree LG Sony's not even in the conversation.

Around five hundred.

Dollars, right, You're getting a good quality TV, but the picture quality won't leap out at you quite as much as it will with a TCL or a High Sense.

And I really am serious about steering your attention toward those brands.

There are a lot of brands that we may remember from our past, like Tosh for instance, or Sharp.

Those are not the same brands that they used to be, and the quality of their products isn't quite what it used to be.

They can be fine, but if you really want to get the most for your money, take a look at the TCL and High Sense brands.

I think that's the best advice I can give your listeners right now.

Yeah, And like I said, I went with the high Sense.

I think it was the U eight and I love my TV.

It's so great and it's I mean, the picture is just fantastic.

People come over for like sports games like this looks so great, Like what are you doing differently?

I'm like, I don't know.

I just had this guy on my radio show that recommended it and I got it, so, I mean, and it works.

So I think I've sold a lot of high sense TVs and it's great.

Okay, less than thirty seconds.

Who's doing the best smart TV interface right now?

Well, if you don't count Apple TV, I mean, Apple TV is my favorite because no ads, right, but it's an add on, right, you've got to get a box to do it, the built in stuff.

Google TV it's my favorite right now.

I think that it offers the most, uh with the least intrusions, and it's just a smooth interface that I think people get comfortable with real quick.

And they're gonna add Gemini AI too.

I saw the preview of the TCL that's gonna have the Gemini AI.

That's probably gonna come to a lot of TVs.

So AI on your TV.

That's probably something to look out for, all right, Uh, Caleb Dennison, thanks so much for joining me today.

Really appreciate it.

Give me your YouTube channel one more time.

That's calibrated c A L E B R A E E ED calibrated.

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Let's go to line one Dale in Ocean Side Dale.

You are on with Rich.

Hey, Rich, and I hope you're doing well, doing well?

Thank you?

Yeah.

I have a Galaxy twenty four Ultra, which I absolutely adore, and for some reason, it won't let me update from one UI seven to one UI eight.

I've gone in the system settings and down the software update and clicked it and it's it planks out for a while, and then it says you your software is up to date, but I don't know how to force it?

Is there?

Do you?

Are you aware of any methods?

There is a method, but one UI eight is not available yet for that.

Oh really, yeah, that's the thing.

So here, okay, this is this is I was actually going to talk about one UIA on the show today because I downloaded one UI e almost I believe it was like months ago, I mean many many months ago as the beta.

So the day they said, oh you can get a beta of this, I downloaded to the S twenty five Ultra, which is you know, the one after yours, right, And then of course this week they came out and they said we're rolling out one uia to phones.

I said, wait, what, I've had this on my phone for like months, and I forgot that it was a beta because I've had it on there so long.

So the official rollout for one UI eight started on September fifteenth, beginning with the S twenty five series, and then it's going to come to the S twenty four, the Fold six, and the Flip six later this year.

So I'm not sure, Adale, did you get word that this was supposed to be available for your S twenty four yet or are you just thinking it would be No.

I just keep reading every article that I get online is about one UI eight and AI and Homeline RG or whatever.

It just feels like everybody has it but me.

Oh, I know, I hate that feeling.

Well popping at the bit.

Yes, and I hear you because you don't have the you don't have all the AI stuff on your phone right now because of that.

No, But I'm not really a big AI person.

I kind of think AI misses things up a little bit for like Google Home and things like that, So I don't really use AI too much.

Okay, Well, I mean it does add a lot of nice features, but a lot of it is AI on the new one Uia.

It also has like kind of a different, you know, little bit of a polished look and feel.

Do you have circle for circle to search on?

There?

Is that on your phone yet?

I'm sorry the phone link out?

Do I have circle to what circle to search?

So?

Can you press and hold kind of the bottom of your phone, like the at the way bottom and like it'll square yeah, and it'll let you circle like things on the screen.

Okay, So I mean, look, I mean you're apparently you don't have this available just yet.

It looks like it's just rolling out to the S twenty five series and then typically they'll roll it out to the other ones a little bit after that.

So I don't think you're being left out just yet.

Dale the way you know in the future, and I guess for for folks that are listening that may want to get a Samsung update, Samsung is a little different than the way Apple updates.

So Apple pushes out the update from Cooper Tino and it goes to all iPhones pretty much at the same time.

The way Samsung devices work is you may get the update on a rolling method, or you may get it from your carrier, and every carrier is different when they push that software out, so it's a little bit of a more staggered rollout than it is with the iPhone.

Now, if you want to force an update, like if you know there's an update for your phone and you're just not getting it, you're smashing that update button, it's just not doing anything.

That's me.

You can download the what is it called the smart Switch app, and so Samsung makes this smart switch software for Windows and Mac and if you plug your phone into your computer, it pretty much gives you the soft the latest software update for that phone.

Like before, you can get it over the air like nine times out of ten.

So I haven't done it in a while, but that's the way I used to force the update when I knew there was one, before I got it on my phone.

The other thing is, and I talked about this before, on the Samsung devices, you can go in and get the latest Google updates by going into your settings, and it's under I believe it's under Security and Updates.

There's a Google Play update, and so you can go in there and get the Google Play update and and that usually adds new Google features to your phone.

And sometimes these will be done automatically on your phone and sometimes not.

But I'm going to try to attempt to reach over and get this phone, so bear with me here.

Okay, I'm getting my Samsung phone so I can check to see exactly where this is because I hate to tell you stuff on the radio and just say oh yeah, just go over there and look for that.

And you're like, wait, rich, what So go to settings.

That's a little gear icon.

Then scroll down to where it says Security and Privacy, and then you'll see where it says updates.

You tap updates and there should be a couple of sections here where it will show you the different updates that you can get, and one of them is a security update, the other is a software update, and the other one is a Google Play update.

So do all of those updates on your phone if you have an Android and you'll get all of the latest features.

But again one UI eight is being rolled out.

It was start it started this week.

S twenty five series is going to get it.

So if you have a Samsung S twenty five series, that's the S twenty five, S twenty plus, S twenty five plus and S twenty five Ultra, check your software update for this major new update called one UI eight.

It's gonna add a lot of new AI stuff to your phone, and then the S twenty four gets it after that, and some of the folderwolves get it after that.

Oh some other things to check once you have this audio eraser that's a really cool one.

Removes wind or traffic noise from your videos, portrait studio for your pet portraits, and call captions for real time text during phone calls.

Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero and we'll talk Windows ten end of life coming up next.

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A lot of you downloading the new iOS twenty six.

Yes, Apple skip from eighteen to twenty six.

Couple of things to know there.

You don't have to update to iOS twenty six if you don't want to.

I think you should because you know, uh, I'm I just like the punishment of trying new things every single day of my life.

But that's what I signed up for.

But for you, yeah, it's gonna look and feel a lot different.

The good news is the functionality is pretty much the same, but the visual nature of iOS twenty six is vastly different.

And I posted this on my Instagram at richon Tech.

If you want to get rid of some of these see through elements of it, you can go into your settings and let's see where you go here settings accessibility, display and text size, and you could turn on reduce transparency and that will make a lot of the stuff less glassy like and more just the way it used to look.

So that's number one.

Then I got an email from Midge just now saying, since the update on my phone, I don't like the movement in messages, how can I fix that?

Which is funny because I was just marveling at how beautiful messages looks when you type now it's it's got all these little movement and motions, but I get it.

Not everyone likes that motion.

So you can go into settings and then you can go into accessibility and then motion, and there is an option to reduce motion and that will reduce a lot of the animations and things that you see when it comes to sending messages and stuff.

And by the way, right under that setting under motion is something called vehicle motion cues.

If you get carsick when you're looking at your screen in your car when you're moving, turn on vehicle motion cues.

I was using this the other day.

I discovered it.

It is really good.

It puts all these little dots on your screen that move with the motion of your car, and somehow it just helps your brain get less I don't know, all over the place when you're looking at your screen and so you don't feel as carsick.

And believe me, I was on a really windy road looking at my phone and it was doing wonders for me.

So you want to if you get car sick looking at your your smartphone, check out the option in iOS under settings accessibility Motion vehicle motion cues and you can have them turned on automatically, so whenever you're in your car and you're looking at your phone.

And by the way, this is not when you're driving.

This is when you are a passenger in your car.

Please don't text and drive.

Please don't just drive distracted.

It can wait.

You can turn on this vehicle motion cues automatically, and just every time you're you know, in your car, it will just turn on.

You'll see these little dots on your screen that help you, I guess, stay centered and grounded somehow.

It's a really cool feature.

All right, let's go to line three.

Julie is in San Diego.

Julie, you're on with Rich, which.

I need your help.

I was just reading your newsletter about the end of Windows pen or the support.

But I really I'm old Rich, and I'm afraid to click the button to switch to upgrade to Windows eleven.

I'm afraid for three things.

If it'll mess up my mail I use Outlook from Cox via Yahoo, and will it mess up my bookmark?

And will it mess up my desktop icons?

Good question?

And uh, you know it's going to change some things.

You know, what you're talking about should be fine.

Can I guarantee that everything's gonna be perfect once you have migrated to Windows eleven.

No, I can't guarantee that.

Because things change.

There's gonna be little changes, there's gonna be big changes.

There's gonna be visual changes, under the hood changes, so there's gonna be a lot that's different.

But I think at the end of the day, I don't think it is going to affect what you do there on a daily basis in a meaningful way.

So you'll still be able to check your mail, You'll still be able to get your bookmarks because those are what program are using for your bookmarks.

Is it is it Chrome or is it Edge?

Yeah?

I use Google Chrome.

Okay, you'll be fine there Google Chrome.

Nothing's changing there, So you'll still be fine there.

Your desktop, your icons, those should not change, you know, are they You know you have all your programs that you use on there basically.

You know, pictures and.

The mail, and you.

Know it should all be there.

It should It should all stay there unless something is not supported or anything like that, like it could you know, could it change could it change the way they look?

Could it change their locations?

Sure it could do that, but it's not supposed to do that.

The main thing that you're going to notice when you update to Windows eleven is the start menu and the taskbar are going to be a little bit different.

So the start menu and the icons are now centered.

This is how you know computer's running Windows eleven.

If you see the start button and the icons in the middle of the taskbar, that means that computer has been upgraded to Windows eleven.

If it's on Windows ten, it's still give me on the left side.

So I'm looking at my computer right now.

I've got the little Windows icon, I've got the search I think there's probably a lot more AI in the Windows eleven.

They just kind of added a lot more of that stuff.

But you know, you can ignore a lot of that stuff, but the design and look is going to be different.

There's also one thing that I really like is the window management.

So you can snap your windows.

If you kind of drag a window up to the upper middle section of your screen, you'll see all these little areas that you can so you can, you know, tile your windows side by side.

You can make one on the left, one on the right.

It's a little bit bigger, smaller.

You can do four windows, one in each corner.

So there are some benefits to this.

I would say, Julie, if you don't want to update and you were reading the newsletter, maybe just follow the directions to extend the security updates for one more year, and that way you can call me next September and say, Rich now I'm at the end of the line.

I have to upgrade because Microsoft which is no longer providing security updates for Windows ten even after the one year extension.

So right now, and thanks for the culture, because I know a lot of people are wondering about this.

But you know Windows ten support ends on October fourteenth, twenty twenty five.

That means you've got less than a month to figure out what you're going to do with your Windows ten.

Now, it doesn't mean Windows ten is going to stop working.

It means that Windows Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows ten.

What does that mean.

It means that your system will be susceptible to hackers, to exploits, to any sort of security issue that may happen.

And you do not want that to happen to you.

So you need to do one of two things.

You have to update your computer to Windows eleven.

If it says you can do that, go ahead, do that, and if you're fine with change, you're fine with slightly different methods of doing things and a slightly different look to Windows, go ahead and do it.

It should be fine.

If you don't want to do that, and you want to take one more year to your feet and just think about things, and you like the way things are and you want to keep things status quo for the next year.

Microsoft is ending is offering what's called Extended Security Updates ESU through October of next year, so you can get one year of security patches, no new features, no bug fixes, just security patches four Windows ten until October of next year.

There's three ways you can do that.

You can do it for free if you back up to one drive.

So if you back up some files and folders and things to one drive, it'll say, okay, fine, you can have this for one year.

You can redeem a thousand Microsoft Rewards points.

You can check your Rewards points if you just search Microsoft Rewards and click that used to be called bing Rewards, and you sign in.

You'll see how many rewards points you have.

I have liked a couple thousand just by not doing anything, so you can definitely hopefully have a thousand of them.

You can search on bing and things like that to earn them for free, or you can pay thirty dollars one time and you can extend your security updates.

So three options, okay, and you can do up to ten PCs per Microsoft account.

Now, I found this great article from Windows Central.

I will link it up on the show notes, but Windows Central basically did the step by step enrollment for how to get these extended updates.

Open Settings on your PC, go to Update and Security, and then tap Windows Update.

Okay, I'm gonna do this right now because I like to do this as I'm talking to you.

So I'm going to Settings on my computer here, okay, and then I'm gonna tap Update and Security.

Okay.

Well, my computers does not want to do this right now for some reason.

All right, yeah, folks, it's that easy.

My computer won't even do it.

I don't know why it's frozen on that for some reason.

You know, it might be this hotel WiFi.

Who knows.

Anyway, So Settings on your PC update insecurity, Windows Update.

You've probably gone to Windows Update before to check for updates on your system, so check for updates.

You have to be on Windows ten twenty two h two.

That's the big update that they pushed through a couple of months ago.

So Windows ten twenty two h two, that's a big, big update.

And then you should see an end of support notification.

So once you see that, it's a little banner underneath your updates, you can do the updates or you can do the end of support notification.

Click that.

It says in roll now.

You click that and you choose your option the one drive backup I mentioned, the Microsoft Rewards points I mentioned, or the one time thirty dollars purchase.

You follow all those prompts and you tap done, and you can think about your computer next year.

But in that time you will have to think about getting a new PC or upgrading to Windows eleven if your computer supports it.

Now, there are some ways to force Windows eleven on your computer, and uh, pocket lint this this is warning, this is for advanced users.

But pocket Lint featured an app called fly ub fl yo b E.

This can bypass all the checks that Microsoft does on your computer to run Windows eleven on an unsupported PC, and it's very very easy to do apparently.

But you want to back up your files and folders before you use this.

And this is a third party installer, so there could be some risks to doing this, so advanced users only.

But the program is fly oo b E.

You can bypass the Windows ten security checks and install Windows eleven on unsupported PCs.

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All right, let's go to line too.

Rita is in Sunland.

Rita, what's going on?

Hi?

Rich?

Well, first of all, thank you for making the Labyrinth of Technology a little less scary.

You're a tremendous help.

You sure, but I'll tell you what's going on.

I see these ads for less expensive cell phone carriers.

I'm with the Big V and I'm not impressed with their less and stellular service.

And they're expensive, needlessly expensive, I think.

But I'm afraid if I switch.

You see my cell phones linked up to my TV, linked up to the Internet, linked up to.

The Wi Fi.

You know, I'm with all these different companies, you know, Google TV and then spectrum jets for Internet.

And if I which cell phone carriers?

Is that going to scramble everything?

Uh?

It shouldn't.

What do you mean when you say it's connected to all these things?

What do you mean by that?

Because the phone is its own thing.

You've got a phone number, that phone number will remain the same.

What do you mean it's connected to all these things like the Wi Fi like you're using your hot spot.

I guess I don't know.

I used to have spectrums for table but that was so expensive and a friend of mine said, oh, well, you know you don't need it, just get spectrum for the Internet, and uh uh, So that's that's what I have for my Internet, and that's linked up to the TV.

And yet it's all also hooked up to my phone.

It seems like it's all connected.

Well it is, but I think look here at the bottom line is Rita, how much you paying for the big V?

How much you paying for that.

One?

Yeah?

You?

And how many phones do you have?

One?

Okay?

And how are you like a content creator power user?

Are you using a lot of hot Spot?

Like?

What do you use your phone for on a daily basis?

To check and see if my friends are still alive?

Oh?

Wow?

You know, I mean, I'm not a real It's like I don't even have a website anymore.

You know, I'm not real tech savvy.

You know, I'm on Facebook.

So you're using your phone?

Yes, you're using your phone to stay connected with friends, make phone calls, check your social media.

You're not sitting there uploading large files, downloading large files that kind of stuff on a daily basis?

Is that correct?

Okay?

Are you traveling a lot?

Are you going to different cities all the time?

I go from the kitchen to the living room, to the backyard and maybe to rout.

Okay, and your signal works well in all those places.

Yes, yes, it does.

So a couple things.

So there.

There really is not a downside of switching to another carrier.

Now there is one, and I will tell you what the downside is, but there's So you're on Verizon.

Verizon owns a carrier called Visible.

Okay, you can sign up for You can sign up for Visible today, get access to that same exact signal that is coming into your home right now from Verizon, and you will pay nineteen dollar a month for one year.

You will not notice the difference in your phone.

It will work the same, Your Internet will work the same, your phone calls will work the same, your text messages will work the same.

The big downside is there are no stores for Visible.

There's no customer service that you can call easily for Visible, so if you needed help, that would be an issue.

And that is I think the big difference between these Envy and o's and something like a Verizon.

You have a problem, read it with your Verizon, your phone, your plan, whatever.

You can walk into a store.

Now.

I walked into a store the other day.

The line was like two hours long.

I said, never mind, I walked right out.

So I'm not saying it's a perfect situation, but you know, it's still an option.

But with that said, if you want to try one of these Envy and O's, and I'd probably recommend Visible for you because you already have Verizon and you know it works and it's there.

You would have to activate this plan through an app, and it's a little bit tricky.

I did it my wife, it's not you know, it can be tricky, but if it works, it's great.

And by the way, you know, my wife's line went from paying one hundred dollars for her line to paying less than you know, forty dollars for her line, So it can save you a lot of money.

It depends how many headaches you want to have when you switch, because if you know what you're doing, like me, it's fine.

I can sign up for this one called US Mobile.

I can activate a line on them in about less than ten minutes and have it up and running.

But I do this all the time.

But if you're concerned about this, if you're concerned about what you're doing, that's why people stay with the traditional carriers because it's simple, it's easy.

You're paying a lot more, you're paying a premium for it, for sure, but you do get that customer service and you do get that help when you need it.

But if there's one that I would look into for you, rita check out Visible by Verizon, see if they might work for you.

All right, coming up, we're going to talk about an app that helps you disconnect a little bit and get one with nature right here on rich on Tech.

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The website rich on Tech dot tv.

That's where you can get more information about anything I mentioned on the show mentioned earlier.

Broadcasting live from Las Vegas.

Looking out my window, it is beautiful.

Oh my gosh, beautiful weather in Las Vegas, like probably the best I've ever experienced.

But on the way here, I don't know what happened, like flash flooding, like the worst rainstorm I've ever had to drive through in my life.

Thankfully my wife was driving.

I actually did it uber style were we were stuck in so much traffic that I ended up checking my email in the backseat and she like didn't mind driving.

I was like, oh, this is great.

I feel like I'm in an uber It was awesome.

Anyway, we're here, we're having a great time, and we're here for the iHeart festival, which is always a good time.

So got to meet a lot of great people from the company and hopefully it translates into better stuff for this show.

All right, let's Evan Rappaport.

He's got an app called nature Me.

Evan is formerly with Google's Moonshot.

Yeah.

I mean, there's just so much to talk about here, Evan, let's just bring you on and explain it all.

Welcome to the show.

Yeah, really excited to be here today.

So what does it mean Google Moonshot?

I know, that's like all their things that they do where they just like reach for the stars, right, Like these are like these big ideas.

Can you explain what you did there?

Yeah?

I worked at a division called Google X and then another one called Google Brain, and we work on moonshots, which are big, crazy ideas that don't seem possible.

They almost seem like science fiction.

And so we come up with these ideas and we try to figure out how do we make the world a better place using technology?

Oh wow, was there anything that came to fruition in your time there?

Yeah, Actually, everything you see in the generative AI space right now, text image, text to video, all medical assistance.

That was some of the projects that I helped get started when I was at Google Research and Google Brain, and things that helped the ocean, things that help detect endangered species and protect them with bioacoustic models, lots of fun stuff.

Oh my gosh, that's so wild.

And I'm sure you're following the nano banana, Like everyone's going wild over this update that I was showing some family members today because my sister I was like, we took a bunch of pictures and I said, here, watch you can erase people from these pictures.

And she had no idea how to do that.

And I was like, watch, you could do it right in Google Photos.

And sure enough, she's like, oh my gosh, I can't believe it.

Like it's like stuff for you know, we take for granted maybe you're in the tech space, you kind of on the cutting edge, but you know when you just show regular people this stuff, it's like I just didn't even know I can do that, like right for my phone.

So let's talk about in Amphibian.

This is your new startup, and you've got a new app called nature Me, which is helping people reconnect with nature through eyes, open mindfulness.

Explain what you mean by that.

Yeah, you know, I grew up as a kid playing out in the streams and in the forests and all that.

But I also got a computer when I was five, and I loved your show because I used to answer all these kinds of questions for my family as well when they would call.

And so my whole life, I've been trying to balance being a tech geek but also being a nature lover.

And so when I left Google last year, I started Amphibian as a company to build products and experiences that bring people back to nature.

And so nature Me is our first app.

Yeah, sorry, keep going.

So I okay, so nature Me and then so explain what the app will help you do.

So I'm looking at the website here Enjoy Nature, Reduce stress.

So how does it help you?

I mean, there's obviously a little bit of irony that you're using an app to connect with nature, but I'm sure you've thought through that as well.

We sure have.

Yeah.

So nature Me is an app very similar to a lot of mindfulness or meditation apps, if people are familiar with those, where you turn on an audio session and you listen to it for ten or fifteen minutes and it sort of helps you find peace and calm or whatever you're sort of seeking.

The key difference is with nature me it's about having all of your senses tune into nature in the world around you, rather than focusing on your breath or your internal scene.

So this is audio guided like, so do I go out on a hike and listen to this?

Like, tell me what I would do?

I download this app?

And then what do I do?

Right?

So you download the app and then the first thing you would do is you could start with either or depending on which one you want to do.

So you go into your.

Okay, hold on, we're we're having a little bit of breakup.

I think we've got a couple of people on the line with you.

Maybe one of them could disconnect.

I think it's it's taking up some of the bandwidth here.

Okay, but see maybe that's a little bit better.

So we download the app, and uh, what do you do after that?

You download the app and then you start with you're sitting or walking whoever you prefer, whatever you got and uh, and it'll basically help guide you to pay attention to the nature around you.

So it's either a sit spot or a.

What we call it ah, okay, Now I saw I see here that you grew up upstate New York.

You caught frogs, crayfish, salamanders, fish.

I mean, this is the difference.

My wife and I were talking about this the other day.

So, you know, kids today, they're on there, they're they're basically the default is on their screen.

They are literally when they're not doing something, they default to their screen.

Now, when I was a kid, let's just give Sunday Morning, Saturday Morning as an example, right, you would watch You'd get up, you'd beline it to the couch in the living room, and you would watch the cartoons that are on Saturday mornings.

After about two or three hours whatever it was, next thing, you know, there was a there was a time where it would switch from amazing cartoons for kids to the boringest programming you could ever imagine, geared towards adults, right, like some sort of Sunday Morning or whatever, you know, news program and you would know that's your signal to go outside and to stop watching the screen.

Nowadays, I feel like there's less of those signals for kids because it's just all become unlimited.

Is that what kind of drove you to create.

This it is.

You know, I've been in the tech industry, working in Silicon Valley for a long time, and I saw the opportunity to use technology to bring more wonder and more joy into people's lives and for people to be excited about the world through technology rather than just excited about the technology.

And so we created Nature of Me as a way to help you connect and find wonder in the world, even if you're not using the app.

And so it just helps you pay attention to the birds, or if you're sitting on the beach, to really notice the sounds around you, and you know, whether you're in your backyard or on vacation.

And that's what technology can do, right.

It could inspire us and make our world better rather than having us become addicted to it.

Isn't that so interesting that you know we think about like, anytime I go outside and just be, you feel better.

I mean you really do, like no matter what you do, if you're just But as humans, we become so accustomed to always being on right, like always having to check our messages, always having to be you know, responding to an email or responding to something that's incoming.

Are there studies that show that just being ousid I always tell my kids to go touch grass, right, like, just go get outside and just literally look for worms under rocks.

Are there studies that show that that actually is good for you still in twenty twenty five.

Yeah, there's tons of scientific research on this, and especially with children.

If you look at the Wilderness Awareness School, this is our partner for Nature Me.

They've been doing this since nineteen eighty three and they've taught over fifty thousand people, lots of kids and adults, how to get out into nature.

And the mental health benefits, the wellness benefits, just the joy in your life.

They're tremendous and people could just look up however much science you want, but you could just feel it for yourself when you walk outside and take a deep breath or hear a bird or look at a sunrise.

And so you know it's been proven.

And my backgrounds of cognitive science and neuroscience and yeah, it's very proven.

You got these two core practices sit spot and wander.

Can you explain?

Yeah, So, sind spot, just like it sounds, you find a beautiful place.

It could be in your backyard, it could be if you're in an apartment on the porch, just something where you could see nature, and for ten minutes, fifteen minutes, you try to go back to that pot that spot about as often as you wish.

And the practices that nature me will offer are tuning into different senses, so you know, first maybe you'll have your eyes and then maybe you'll have your ears in a different practice.

Sometimes it'll be about listening to the birds, or paying attention to the sky or different things.

And so what you start to find is that there's actually wonder and inspiration and awe in all of these just everyday things that we might have taken for granted.

And so I really hope that people start to recognize that there's such amazing things around them all the time, and that if you just put your screens down for a little bit and pay attention to the world, it's just as exciting.

Do you have kids, By the way, I don't have kids.

I have a lot of friends, so I do.

Stand as well.

So I you know, so I see what my kids do, and I see it.

Here's the thing that's also a challenge with the kids.

Okay, it's if you have kids and you do things a certain way with them, you know, you want to do things, there's all these other people that are doing things completely different.

Like my wife.

We always say like, well, his friends are on the iPad, they're online, and they're all there like playing this game.

It's like there's always going to be someone online playing that game.

That's why they designed the game to be like that, right, Is that kind of like my understanding?

Yeah, you know, technology is very often designed right now to keep you addicted to it, and that's how people make money using technology.

And there are also technologies though, that are about getting you out into the world where you don't need to be addicted to it in order to get the benefits.

And so that's what we're really focused on in nature me is how do we create experiences for you that will enhance your life and bring you closer to people.

Because one of the best things you could do when you've had an experience in nature is to tell a story about it to someone else.

So at the end of the day, at the dinner table with your family, you can say, hey, guess what I did.

I set outside for ten minutes and there was this little bug crawling on the ground and like, but because I was actually really present with it.

It was so cool, like, think about this little bug moving along and like I found joy and wondering that, and you could just see your family's face lighting up from that.

You wouldn't get that with a video game story.

No, I was.

I was in the wilderness a couple of weeks ago with no cell signal for about eight hours with a group of people.

We were doing a tour and we had to have lunch out there.

And I'm not kidding.

It was so weird because typically at a lunch like that with a bunch of journalists, you know, all at a table, you know, half of them would be on their phone, half of them be doing stuff.

We all had to like interact and talk, and we were in the middle of like you know, all these nature like trees and stuff, and it was just such a different experience.

I sent my first satellite SMS message, by the way, because there was no there was no traditional cell phone signal, but it was.

It just made me think the whole time that like, this is an entire world out there that a lot of people are just ignoring.

Do you think we're gonna have like some sort of renaissance with humans where we're going to realize that like all this stuff outside that is just right there and just accessible freely is something that we need to tap into more.

I think you're exactly right.

We're on the cusp of these changes.

You know, Pendulums kind of swing back and forth, and for the last few hundred years of recent studies showed we've become sixty percent more disconnected from nature as a society, which is really scary for many, many reasons.

But I'm sensing and I'm getting a lot of hope from younger people right now, and also from people like me who are in their forties who are starting to maybe burn out on their first round of career that you know, geez, when I go outside, I just feel more at peace.

And I see, like younger people starting to get these old school devices like Walkman's and you know, I'm sure you've talked about that on your show, like teenagers who are wanting to do it, and they're getting around their school cell phone policy, but they're also starting to find the joy of having a device that doesn't have a screen and to get outside together.

And I would just really bet on community.

I would really bet on the fact that maybe coming out of COVID people were more disconnected than they wanted, and now people are starting to realize that when we come together, especially if it's outdoors in nature, we're just happier.

So let's do more of that.

All right, well, you can do it.

The app is nature me Dot app.

The website rather is nature me Dot app.

The app is called nature me.

It's available for iPhone and Android.

Evan Rappaport, thanks so much for talking about it today.

Really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Rich.

All right, coming up, we are going to open up the feedback.

These are the emails, the comments, the questions you sent me all week long.

We'll get to that right after this.

Welcome back to Rich on Tech.

Rich Demiro here.

Let's get to the feedback in just a moment.

But first, little Samsung news, a little will I should say, a little CS news.

CS quickly approaching in January, always the first couple weeks of January, but Samsung making a big CEES change for twenty twenty six.

Samsung will have it's they're saying they're gonna have their biggest CEES exhibit ever in twenty twenty six.

But they're moving from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Win and Encore hotels.

So they're still gonna be an official CS exhibitor, but in a new location.

So they're gonna put their TVs, their home appliances, and their other products all under one roof.

This larger setting is gonna be designed for demos and experiences.

So this is a big change because typically Samsung has a hole, they have a big presence on the floor, and then they have a whole bunch of satellite presences in other places, right like their appliances might be in one place, their TVs might be another place.

So now they're putting it all in one massive location.

So that's gonna be really interesting, big change for Samsung.

I thought at first they were ditching CS and they were kind of gonna go unofficial, but no, they're still gonna be an official exhibitor, just gonna have I guess, a really big exhibit at the hotels.

So I got to book my hot tels for CS, or my hotel, I should say, because I usually do that in the summer.

And we're past that all right.

Now it's time for the feedbag.

Gary writes in regarding the woman who wants to switch to a cheaper cell phone planned.

Verizon Prepaid is an option I've had pre paid for years.

I've always found their customer service, vehicle or chat to be good.

I paid twenty five dollars a month for five gigs of data.

That includes a five dollars auto paid discount as well as a ten dollars loyalty discount, which kicks in after nine months.

They also offer unlimited plans for more money.

Gary, that is a good option.

I guess I'm not sure if you can go into the store for that for help, but Visible is definitely cheaper because it's all unlimited for like, I think twenty five dollars is their main They're you know, they're one plan.

Hold on, they have two plans.

I think they have a twenty five and they changed them all.

Okay, twenty nine dollars, nineteen and thirty nine Okay, anyway, still a pretty good deal, all right.

Feedbag Joel writes in I enjoy listening to your podcast as I deliver my mail route.

Your podcast is enjoyable and your approach is humble and well explained.

With the release of iOS twenty six and Apple Watch OS twenty six, I found a better and free way to get voice memos transcribed from my watch.

Just use Apple Notes.

The note is transcribed, sync to your phone, and it can even share to reminders from there.

I had handwritten notes with my Apple pencil on iPad.

For me, it works better than the app you currently recommend.

That app is Whisper Memos, Joel.

I like your system.

I think it works great, and I love that it's free.

I slightly like Whisper Memos just a little bit more for my purposes, just because it not only transcribes, but it also emails me that transcription, so I can deal with it in any way I want to.

I personally don't use Apple Notes because it's not third party.

It's not yet independent third party platform, which I like cross platform products.

But that's a great solution as well.

Zal from Brooklyn writes in you were speaking last week about travel insurance, which got me thinking what website would you recommend to track or predict international airfares.

The only site I really use for airfare tracking is Google Flights.

No matter what, that's what I'm tracking everything on that, so I'm searching on Hopper is great for price predictions, and then if you want great deals, going dot Com is really great.

They will.

I mean, you sign up for that, you will find some amazing deals you got to take advantage of.

Claudia writes in rich we happened to me in Las Vegas when I read your newsletter about the Zookes car.

We're riding in it right now.

It's amazing and they included some pictures.

I was going to try to get in that Zeukes before I leave Las Vegas.

That'd be kind of fun.

Daniel, glad you made it through the accident without serious injury.

Thanks for the tip on updating Google play services.

I would have never thought to check that.

I've been on Android for decades.

Yes, that tip on updating Google Play services is really great.

A lot of people overlook it, and as you might expect, I did mention my accident last week on the show.

I got lots of lots of emails.

I'll try to get through some of them right now.

Ralph writes in just wishing you a note for a quickly recovery from your accident.

Life is fragile.

I'm appreciating every and appreciating every day is so important.

I enjoy your segments on TV and your newsletters.

I've adopted so many of your suggestions and gain knowledge of the tech world with each show and article.

Keep up the great work and heal quickly.

Thank you, Diane.

I'm sorry to hear about your accident and lifting you up here in my prayers, and I hope you feel better.

I'm grateful you're still with us.

Take good care of yourself.

Alan Perry from a tech talk up in Victoria.

He does a similar tech show.

Hey, Rich, I'm very sorry to hear about your crash.

Relieved you survived and recovering.

We'll send best wishes on our show and added your picks to our show notes.

Eric writes in Rich, your post on Instagram was really inspiring.

You put into words something that most people never stopped to appreciate.

Thanks for the reminder about resilience and gratitude.

We're glad you're still around, Ronald.

I just saw the photo of your car.

It's a blessing you're still here.

Please don't think that because you're fine now, there won't be issues later.

I've been in seven rear end accidents.

Oh my gosh, over the years, I am sore for a few days and never had any medical checkups.

I am regretting it now.

Oh my gosh, get those checkups.

I know I am, Patty.

Thanks so much you do for us non techies to feel more comfortable in this filled world.

I sing your praises to anyone who brings up questions about what's out there in the tech world.

Thank you, Patty, Thank you for listening.

My name is rich Jamiro.

Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.

I will talk to you real soon.