Check iPhone Battery Health, $199 GoPro & Getting a Better WiFi Connection

reporter for KTLA five News in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for spending your podcasting time with me. Welcome to all the folks watching live on Facebook. Thanks to you for doing that as well, and thanks for listening. There's

so much happening in the tech world. My job is to keep you guys up to date on all the cool things that are happening, and also to kind of know what's happening, because, especially with this Facebook stuff, it's kind of crazy when you think that we're blindsided by all the data that these companies are taking from us or that we're giving to them, And the funny thing is we're not really blindsided. I mean a lot of people are, but the reality is we're the ones giving

up the information knowingly. But that's my goal, is to kind of keep you guys up to date on what you're doing, what these companies are asking for, why they're asking for it, and just to be a little bit more knowledgeable about the stuff that's happening when it comes to these companies. So you know, when I saw all this stuff happening with Facebook, it was like, yeah, okay, I kind of knew that stuff before, but now it puts it to the forefront, and I think that's a

good thing. But if you've been listening to me for a while, you've kind of heard about all this stuff. I've talked about the data that these companies are collecting. I tell you how to make sure you know what's going on. I've talked about the third party apps before, and it shouldn't come as a big surprise, but it does. And so if you're listening, and you guys are the exceptions because you're listening to this kind of show, so

you know a lot more than the average person. But the reality is, these tech companies should not make this stuff so complicated, They shouldn't make it so crazy. That you have to, you know, be doing research on how to best protect your privacy on Facebook. It should just come naturally inside the app. But what I do here is answer your tech questions. So you have a tech question, I will answer it. The phone number is three one zero five nine four three zero zero three three one

zero five nine four three zero zero three. We'll talk about all that stuff, but let me just start real quick with iOS eleven point three. This just came out, and I know a lot of us are sort of hesitant to download the latest version of iOS the day it comes out because we've been burned in the past. There's been problems. I personally had my phone disabled for twenty four hours because I was one of the first people to download an old iOS update and there's a

problem with it. It was one that they pulled. This was a few years back, but it did happen and it still can happen. So you know, maybe you don't want to download it. I already did, of course, because I'm the tech person, so I always want to download

this stuff immediately. And there's one feature that you guys are going to like in this thing, and that is the feature on the battery and so there's a new feature called Batteries and Performance, and you can go into Settings now and battery and you can check it out. And I have it right here and I was looking at it. And so basically, if you go into Settings, you go into your battery, there is a new little oh wow, it's already not working there it is, So

there's low power mode, which we've already had before. But then you have this new thing that's called battery Health. And so you probably can't see it if you're watching on the Facebook Live, but it's right there and it says battery Health, and I tap that and it says maximum capacity one hundred percent, which is really cool. That means to my battery is still doing pretty well. So this is a measure of battery capacity relative to when it was new. Lower capacity may result in fewer hours

of usage between charges, so that's kind of cool. I like that they're doing that. So they're actually telling you when your battery is starting to go debt. So mine's at one hundred percent, but over time it will drop down. And I don't have an old iPhone here to test that on, but that's really interesting. I've never seen that measurement before then you have this new thing called peak Performance capability, and it says your battery is currently supporting

peak performance. Now, if my battery was not supporting peak performance, it would tell me and it would say I can turn it off. So users can now see power management feature that dynamically manages maximum performance to prevent unexpected shutdowns, and they can turn it off. This feature can be found in settings. Battery is available for the iPhone six six plus se Success Success plus, iPhone seven and seven plus, So that's not even on my phone. It's not even

an option because they know my phone's pretty new. But that's awesome. So that's There's also a new data and Privacy icon, so whenever Apple is going to ask for access to personal information, they will have this little icon which is that's also neat. There's business Chat, which lets you chat with businesses like home Depot right inside the messages app. And you know, I don't know how much that one's gonna get used, but we'll see. I mean,

I can understand. I definitely have you know, if you need to call business or something, you don't want to anymore because you want to do everything online on text. And so that's a new way to do that. And then let's see. iPhone X has new animojis, so now you can do line, bear, dragon, or skull. Okay, I mean I have had the iPhone ten for a while and i've I'll be honest, I've never sent an animoji to anyone, but I'll check this out and just for

you guys, so we'll see what these look like. So let's see the new one whereas he Oh, there it is skull. Hello though, haha, ho wow wow. Okay, I'll record this to you guys. Oh hello, I get ten seconds of animoji. That's it.

the chat. Bob says, hey, Bob, I remember Bob. Bob is from my hometown. What do you think when do you think my Google Home Mini will work with my Sonos? I think there is a way to connect them, but it's not pretty. So I know in my sonosapp it has some options for connecting your smart speaker. I know it works with the Alexa really well. I don't know if it works with I don't you know. I don't

think it works with Google Home just yet. But they do have a version of the SOS that does and I wonder if you can get or maybe it just has Alexa built in. Uh let's see control. Yeah, yeah, to get started need a voice enabled so no speaker or an Amazon Alexa device. So I don't know. I think that that would be soon because Google wants its assistant to be everywhere, and I think and SOS wants their stuff to be everywhere. I think you let's see

could you hack it together? You might be able to hack it together, but it's not pretty now, I don't know. I hope that that happens soon. And uh uh okay, well, let's just take a phone call. Let's take our first phone call. Nine four nine. You're on with Rich.

that's that's basically what's happening there. I don't think you can get those things transferred over.

You can watch shows a Wi Fi connection after downloading them to your device, So make sure your device your show has finished recording to your DVR, and when you're connected to your home Wi Fi network, open the Direct TV app, press watch phone in the right hand corner, tap watch your DVR. Your playlist loads, and then you press download. So, yes, it does do that. Now, I

will tell you I remember this. It doesn't work very well, or it didn't in my experience, and I also think that it didn't download it in a very good quality. But it does work, and you do have it. So you just need to here. I'll put the link to the article right here, and so now you should see the link on the comments and you can click there and you know, that should tell you how to do it. But yeah, you can do it. I kind of forgot, it's been a while. I've had my I got rid

of that about a year ago. But you can do it. And it's not pretty. I don't think it's as I don't think it's as good as Dish Network was really easy. I don't think the Direct TV was as good. Maybe it's been improved in the past year. I will say, if you want something that's super simple, Netflix is probably the easiest to do that with because if you pay for you know, Netflix, you can just download shows to your tablet really easily and your phone.

you just select the show. Most of it is their original programming, so it's a lot of their TV shows and movies and documentaries and you literally just pressed a little download button. It's like a little arrow next to each show that you want to download, and it's it's amazing. It's it's really it's it's kind of like the best case scenario for when you're traveling. It's it's very easy to use, it works really well. Well all right, Cindy, thanks so much for calling in today. I appreciate you. Oh,

thank you so much. I really like when you listen. Thank you all right, awesome, So there you have it. Yeah, I forgot about that with the with the DVR when I audition network, it was a really simple process for that to happen, and for some reason when I switched to Direct TV, it just wasn't as good for the download. It took him a while. Greg says, I have Direct TV also and Netflix. Can I record from there like

I do on my regular Direct TV programming. So you want to, Greg, do you mean you want to record Netflix? There is an app that does it. And let's see what's it. Uh, what's it called. It's called cloud I think it's called cloud on. Yeah, Uh, nope, it's not cloud On. What's that? What's that app? Oh? Play on? I think it's called play on. Let's see there it is. So this this TV this this app I've tested. It's

called play on. And what that does is it? It basically lets you record shows off of Netflix and HBO kind of like to a cloud DVR that you can then download to your phone. Now I can't vouch for the legality of that. I think they operate sort of in a gray area when it comes to all this stuff. So I really don't know how long that's going to be around, but it is legit. I mean, it's kind of like you know, if you download, if you if you Oh, Greg says, I want to download on my TV,

not my mobile devices. That I don't really know. But anyway, so, I mean this sort of operates in a gray area, kind of like a DVR for your home. They're saying that, look, we're using the recordings for your personal use. So it's legit and I don't know. I've tested it in the past. It works. It literally opens up a window like if you, let's say you record something from HBO go it literally it opens up a window using your account, records this and then sends it to your phone. So it's kind of weird.

for the car. So when I had this rental car for the weekend, I knew you could unlock it with your phone, So I unlocked the car with my phone and then I got in and the first thing I did was look around for keys, and I couldn't find any. So I'm like, wait a second, how do I start this car? And sure enough, you do it from your phone and or your phone has to be in there.

I can't remember if I have to start it from your phone or if your phone was in the if it was just in the car and it would work, but either way, it really threw me for a loop. And I had this car for the entire weekend. I took it to Palm Desert and I was just worried the entire time that my phone. Oh I think you had to start it. Yes, you had to unlock it from your phone, and then you could start it from your car. But there was no key. It all happened with your phone in the car, and it was It

was very odd. I mean, it was just strange because I kept worrying about not having a good cell phone signal. Then I was worried about if my phone goes dead, and then I was worried about losing my phone. How would I start this car because there was literally no key. So I think if those things are figured out, it'll be okay. And on linken side, they said that the car you can open the door with a code on

the door. We've seen that before, you know, like if you have those cars that have like the little keypad on the door, but they also have once you open the car, there's a touch screen in the center, you know, like your center console screen, and a code keypad shows up there. You dial your code in there, and then it turns on the car to start it. So I guess even if you even if you lose your key or your phone rather, you'll still be able to drive

the car. So anyway, I survived the weekend. It worked. Everything worked on the Maven rental and it was it worked. But this is the future. I think that the future definitely involves just your cell phone as your key. And it makes sense because everything else is happening with your cell phone too, I mean our our wallet. I still have to carry around my wallet to use my you know cards, because half the time I use the mobile payment, it doesn't work, and I don't know why. I'm like,

what's going on here? Phone line is open three one zero five nine four three zero zero three three one zero five nine four three zero zero three And Glenda asks what kind of car the kind of car that I had was a It was a GM. What was that car? It was an suv. It was a small SUV, GMC terrain maybe no GMC. Oh, gosh, I forget what it was. It was an suv. It was there, GMC suv GM, GMC suv. And the one that Ford is talking about, it's the Ford Lincoln Aviator. That's the one

that's coming out with no key. Let's see. Anastasia says, I wish I could give up cable. Well you can. I mean, it took me a while to do it, but I did it. I mean I have an antenna, and I have Direct TV now, and I have Netflix, and I have Amazon, so I get pretty much everything, including Channel five, which you have to have an antenna four if you cut the cord because right now they're not on any streaming services. So that happens. Three one zero five nine four three zero zero three is the

phone number three one? Oh you are on with Rich? Who am I speaking with?

whatever it's called. I just kind of wanted to see what information they had, and uh, yeah, I was very surprised because you know, I usually didn't care what information I have out there, but some of this information was uh pretty uh it was pretty uh you know, it was pretty eye popping.

your call records and all that stuff. So but for the life of me, I couldn't find this, uh, this setting of information submitted to lead Ads and Pages platform which supposedly has my specific address, UNI number and zip code on there.

of there, and and I know here's a page. Here's a page that I'm looking at. It's called lead ads, and that's what's happening. So basically, I think what's happening with you is that there was definitely some kind of page that you submitted your information to under this new program, and that's what it saved that information. So it might have been sort of a I don't know, like some sort of product or something, but I think that's yeah.

This is the problem with Facebook is that they have so many little things that you have to kind of look through every single one of them to see where your stuff might be. But that's what I would do, is I would go, I think that's what happens. It's some sort of payment, or it's it's linked to a credit card or something that of that aspect.

the numbers on it are crazy. But let's see where is it here? It is how to clean Okay, the link on my thing is called how to clear out old apps that still have access to your information. So I'll put that link right there and you guys can see that. You guys, oh, can you click it? That's cool. So many of you have have clicked that link, but if you haven't done it, go through. It's pretty eye opening all the different apps that you've connected. Three one

zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let's talk about GoPro. They had a new camera come out today. It's called the Entry Level Hero. It's just the Hero. It's one hundred ninety nine dollars. This is a very cheap GoPro. Is it going to change anything for this company? Though I love my GoPro. It is. It takes some amazing video. In fact, a lot of the videos you see that I shoot I shoot on my GoPro and

it's great. But here's the thing. I'm a video creator, whereas the average person to me is just going to continue to use their smartphone. And I think that's the problem. We're seeing with GoPro is that people just it's easier. Your phone is always charged, it's always on you. It's pretty darn good, and you don't have to carry anything separate.

And I think that's what GoPro is running up against, is that people, even for one hundred and ninety nine dollars, which is a really cheap go Pro, it's still like, well, wait, do I really need this? Why do I need a new GoPro. I already have my iPhone or I already have my Android. And I agree. Diego says GoPro should create a phone, and I agree. I think the play here is that a company needs to purchase GoPro and build some of their technology into the smartphone. That's what's

I mean. I don't know. I mean because I used to use the LG phones when they had the wide angle lenses on them. If you have one of those, they're amazing. They just open up so much with your shot. You can be really creative with those. But the problem is that's only on LG and it's really neat because they've got two lenses, one that's super wide and one that's regular, and it really lets you become more creative.

But This is the go Pro Hero. It's one ninety nine and it's basically it looks like your regular typical GoPro that's high end, except the difference is it does not do four K video, which you really don't need anyway. For the most part. It does HD video. It's got ten megapixel camera, which normally it's twelve. It's got the touch display, it's got the voice, it's got water proofing

and video stabilization. It doesn't have the latest processor though, and software that the new GoPro, the Hero six has. That's their high end, really high end go Pro and that one's amazing stabilization. Video stabilization is just phenomenal. And I think the other part about GoPro is that to me, when I'm shooting a video with it, I know that I have to go and I've got to figure out

a way to connect a microphone to it. I got to figure out to get to get all the video off the go Pro, I have to connect it to my computer. Even though they have an app, but I don't like that automatic. GoPro would like you to just install their app on your phone and have the go Pro automatically sync the video and bring it to your phone.

The problem is that eats up all your phone battery, so I don't want to do that, so I turned that feature off, which means I have to take the little the little card out of the go Pro, pop it in my computer, copy everything over, and then put it back. That's a process. And if you're trying to you know, in this day and age, you snap a picture on your phone, you share it on Facebook or Instagram in about two seconds flat, or you take a video on your phone and it's instantly shared somewhere. If

you're using GoPro, it takes a little bit longer. And I know they're advertising their app, the quick App, but it still takes a couple of steps to do that and to share that video. Christy says, I think the GoPros more geared toward expreen extreme sports where you can't carry your phone. My dad used it while surfing, and I agree it is that's that's where they got their start,

was the extreme sports market. But the problem is you can't build an entire company that's you know, worth billions of dollars on one tiny mart section of the of the population, and realistically, anyone who has a kid used to have a camquarder. That was a huge market for so long. But nowadays we don't have camp quarters. We have our phones. And so the tough part for GoPro is there in this really tough position of convincing people why they need to have a separate device other than

their smartphone. And I agree that's a really really tough argument, except in very specific use cases. And so there you have it. Let's see. Peter says, I'd get one if it were if I were doing professional It's worth it absolutely if you're doing anything profess any kind of stuff, go Pro would be a good choice. And Peter also says would go Pro be a good phone? I think so I would love to have a go Pro lens

and stabilization in my smartphone. That'd be so cool. Three one zero five nine four three zero zero three is the phone number. Three one zero five to nine four three zero zero three. You're listening to Rich on tech Live. I'm Rich DeMuro and I'm answering your tech questions Live. Diana says, have you seen the new adapter for iPhones to download and save your pictures to a flash drive? What do you think about it? I think it's really cool,

it's funny. There must be an advertisement. Someone must have promoted this somewhere, because I've I was in Walmart and I heard a guy asking about this, and I get questions about this all the time, So they must be advertising them somewhere. But yes, the one that I like is a little bit, a little bit pricier, but I think it's going to be better quality in the end. There's so many of these things. Oh interesting, Okay, there is. When I just googled that, I said, I expand special

TV offer. Okay, so they must be advertising them on TV. So here's the one that I like. It's from sand Disk, and it's basically a little flash drive that you plug into your iPhone in the bottom. It's a you plug it in the lightning port of your iPhone. You can transfer all your pictures to this device, and then you can pop it in your computer and transfer your pictures to your computer if you want, or you can just leave them on your on your little flash drive. And

so I like that. The only thing is I have to tell you, if you're going to get one of these things and you download your pictures to it, you can't just rely on that to save your pictures, you have to put them somewhere else, whether that's in the cloud or on your computer. You always want your pictures in at least two places, so if one place goes down, you still have them in the other place. Nine oh nine, you're on with Rich Sam. What's up? Sam is a

regular on the show. Thanks, thanks for calling in. What's up? What's that? Oh? The rewards program? Oh? Hold on, hold on, Sam, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm I'm being told that people can't hear you. There we go. Okay, Sam from Pom is on. Yes, everyone can hear you now, I had you turn down. But Sam is a regular caller to the show. You guys know that. But he's talking about Verizon UP and so tell me this is the up rewards.

and I couldn't get one. And so then they changed the system and they went to this deal where it was like a countdown. Anyway, it would take me an hour to tell you the whole story. But the bottom line is I called them up. They lied to me. I didn't know what they were doing. Yeah, they flat out told me the system was down and some other stuff. And when I found out what was really going on, I, uh, well, they gave me a three months worth of service and they gave me Laker tickets.

I called Verizon and I said, hey, the person in store said you can you can credit me for that fee and they said, hold on, sure enough, we can. And I said, now, wait a second. I activated a line a couple of months ago, about three months ago, can you waive that fee? And I think it was actually thirty five dollars, I can't remember, but sure enough, they gave me a credit for both fees. So I came out ahead. I think it was sixty or seventy dollars, and I felt so good that night, it might have

been a Friday. I was ready to go out.

they take notes. Number two, don't be a jerk. Number three. You can always just call someone else and get a totally different answer half the time. So if you're frustrated, just I've done that.

usually during the live podcast. So when you're listening on the podcast in the car or whatever. I don't really do that because it's kind of tough for me to I don't. I haven't figured out a way to do that easily. But if you're listening, if you're watching on Facebook, I can do that. So Christy says, she's watching while she pays the bills. Ah, I usually pay the bills on Friday, because that's payday on Thursday. I'm out of money, so Friday is the day that I pay those or

maybe you're getting a head start. Maybe you know you're getting paid tomorrow, so you're already writing those checks. All right, let's see what else. Oh, speaking of that, this is interesting, Kelly asks, can you hyperlink to that Facebook app info I did? It's in there. It's in the comments. This should be in there. You might have to scroll up a bit. But this is an app that I've been trying and oh, Test says she's listening for the first time.

Thanks for listening, Tests with a smiley face, so that means you might be enjoying it. This is a really interesting app that I've been testing out and it's called it just came out this week. It's called Debits dB X. And so if you've listened to me at all, you know that I'm a big fan of cash is King. I'm a Dave Ramsey follower. I really like cash. I really like my debit card, and I don't like my

credit card as much. In fact, I don't even carry a credit card in my wallet because I can't be trusted. My wife yesterday we were out shopping and every story went into I couldn't buy anything because I didn't have a card. I'd only had my debit card. And she's like, seriously, how come you don't carry your credit card. I'm like, because I can't be trusted. I will just spend it and spend and spend, so I don't even carry it anyway.

But I do like the idea of this app because the problem with the debit card is there's no buffer between you and your money once you spend it or you use it. And I really don't like using it online because if someone gets your number, that's it. They've got all your your money, and then you have to fight back for your own money. And so this is why I kind of like this this this app, it's called Debits, and what it does is it combines your credit card. It basically turns your debit card or your

credit card into a debit card. So you sign up with this app, you link your credit card, you link your checking account, and then every charge you make on your credit card they paid off the next morning. And you can set all kinds of rules, so you can say I only want things paid off under fifty dollars I only want if I have a certain amount of money in my checking account. Maybe if I have, you know, three hundred dollars or less, stop making payments because I

need my money. But I really think it's interesting. I signed up. I signed up one of my credit cards and I put one of my bank accounts in there. And you have to have a lot of faith in these companies, a lot of trust because you're handing over your credentials. So that's that's something that you kind of is given here. But it's really slick. I've got to say, I have not used it to make up an automatic payment.

I haven't gotten there yet, not that sort of invested in the idea yet, but I wanted to see how

it works. And what it does is it shows you every transaction you make on your credit card and the next day, let's say you made a five dollars transaction at McDonald's, it would pay that off using your checking account the next morning, and it just takes some money out of your checking and it pays off the card for that transaction and then it marks it as paid and you can see a list of all your transactions. The other thing is that it's free, so they don't

charge anything. There's another app that does this called Debatize, and they charge you I think it's five dollars a month for the same or similar service, and they only pay off your card once a month. Maybe it's free if it's once a month, but it's five dollars if you want it more than that. But this is totally free. And the guy who started it I trust because he tried.

He started the All Point ATM network. So if you've seen ATMs out in like cvs and write aid and stuff, a lot of them are from all Point, which is a big ATM network. He wanted to start that to make ATM fees less and he did a good job with that because they're free if I use All Point with my bank anyway. Debix is the name of it. Deb X. It's a little complicated, but it's fascinating. I mean, you get the benefits, you get all the points and stuff for your credit card, but you're still using your

debit card. So check it out there, you have it all right? Nine oh nine, you're on with Rich. Who am I speaking with?

this myself when I first installed a ring doorbell. I didn't think I had any problems with my WiFi until I installed that thing, and I was like, oh, this is really spotty, and so I had an extender I use. Basically, I think, how big is your house, what's the square footage and so, and where's your router? Right now?

You'd either have to drill a hole in your floor to bring the wire through to the next floor. I don't know how you'd run that cable. It depends on the setup of your house, right, and that's kind of a pain. The second thing you can do is you can get a booster. But the problem is I really don't recommend those anymore because they're more trouble than they're

worth and they don't really work that well. So yeah, and we've got some people commenting that you can have a tech come from Spectrum and run a wire from the modem to downstairs. I would say that's your first option. I would call Spectrum that way. You know, because your house twenty one hundred square feet, A typical modem should be or a WiFi router should be able to cover that, especially if you're saying most of your stuff is on

the first floor. I would get this router, this Wi Fi router, closer to where your devices are, and that way you can have a better chance of the signal making it to the devices. And I would call up Spectrum and just say, hey, I'm not my internet is not working right and I need someone to come out here and fix it. And they might say, you know, I mean, how long have you had this service with them?

And now my my devices are not working. So I'm at this point where I'm either gonna have to cancel my WiFi, which I don't want to do because I need it, or I'm gonna switch to a new provider that's gonna give me better service with my because I'm paying for something that's not working anymore. Right, And you kind of have to tell them that, And you're not lying. These are not lies that you're telling them. You're just

setting up the picture that you're in. The situation that you're in is that you're paying forty five to eighty bucks a month. I don't know what it is for this service that is not working for the products that you have, and the router that they have should cover a house of your size, so you need them to come to your house and put a secondary They will run the line. It really is not that big of a deal now, I'm saying for you, it is. You don't want to sit there and do it unless you're

great with a drill. I don't know, but I think that Okay, the person who's doing this every day for Spectrum, believe me, it's not a big deal for them to drill a hole in your wall, run the cable, put a new outlet, and be done and you'll be very happy when they do that.

ten percent of the service out of it because your devices are not working properly.

them to do this. And you know, like I said, I've had these guys out at my house, these installers from Direct TV, from Dish Network, they do it every day, day and day out. To just move an outlet to a different room for a happy customer is really not that big of a deal. So that's that's what I recommend. And if you don't if that, if that doesn't work, call me back and I'll explain some of the systems you can install to make it better. But those are

going to cost you three to five hundred dollars. So I think that the first thing you want to do is really just go with the the go with the company and see what they can do for you. Great question, and it's a common occurrence. Let's see Tom. Tom says, I contacted Spectrum after a calling. I was sent to the retention department. They cut my bill thirty seven dollars a month and upgraded me to one hundred megabits. That's awesome. Sandy says, this was so informative. I needed this information.

Thank you. Trish says, they'll also upgrade the router. That's true if you haven't gotten a new router from them, And that's Another thing you can say to them is, look, I've had this router now for ten years. Come on, you guys, are are this is? This is crazy? Hey, Rich, I'm a customer service rep over the phone, and I really like your show. Just the way you start with your opening, it's awesome. I feel like it goes downhill after the opening, but thank you, Sergio Diego says co

X and Brenda says, call the company first. Yeah, don't don't spend money that you don't have to spend when the company is providing you a service that's not really working. And I love Spectrum. I have them and they're fantastic. I upgraded to them, I think it was a year ago, and my service is awesome. I've got one hundred down. I could get three hundred where I am. But it's

really nice. And call them. They are they are willing to work with you because, believe me, these things when they've got a customer paying for five years, the customer there's a term for it. There's like acquisition cost. Your acquisition cost is nearly zero after five years. To get a new customer on board, it probably cost them two three five hundred bucks. And that customer may leave after a little bit. You've been there for a long time.

Get them to do something for you, all right, I've got time for one more call three one zero five nine four three zero zero three, or I'll just take the last five minutes here to to answer your questions over the comments. So go ahead and comment with your question in there and I can answer those. Let's just maybe do that because I only have five minutes left in the show. Jerry says, just updated to the new iOS while listening to your broadcast. You are a brave man, Jerry.

But it's seems to be working right. Sharon says, Spectrum is trying harder to satisfy us. A rep told me people are going to Netflix et cetera. Absolutely, They're They're really getting hit hard on their on their TV side of the business. So the cable side of the business. Believe me, that's a growing portion of their business. People need Internet and they do want to help you. Uh. Greg says, uh, someone wants me to talk about Steve wants me to talk about bitcoin. Greg says, hey, Rich

Greg from the av what's up? Just want to know I resolve the one? Oh okay, he had to do a reset it's gone. Okay. Greg was having a persistent notification on his phone with his iPhone. We couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. He did a reset, and it's gone. Bitcoins. Steve asks about I think that bitcoin, maybe not bitcoin, but blockchain is definitely has a big future in our payment systems. So I am a big

believer in blockchain and everything that they're doing. Bitcoin. Who knows what the future is for that, But I do have twenty five dollars worth, so I'm a believer in that. I'm not a huge investor in bitcoin, but I'm definitely watching it very thoroughly. I wish I would have bought it when my friend told me about it many many years ago. Let me tell you when let's see Mike bitcoin. I was looking at my email the other day for the first time a friend mentioned bitcoin to me, and

here's what he said. Oh my gosh, this is so long ago. I didn't want to look at it to twenty thirteen. Yeah, September twenty thirteen, So I vote have purchased. He says, I would highly suggest you keep a close eye on bitcoin because it's going to be the next big story in tech. So let's see what the bitcoin price was in September twenty thirteen. Okay, so bitcoin price in September twenty thirteen, Oh my gosh was I don't even want to see this. Oh gosh, thirteen dollars and

now it's up to eleven thousand. So if I would have bought bitcoin at thirteen dollars when he told me to fifteen dollars, oh my gosh, that's unbelievable. Eleven dollars and now it's up to eleven thousand, I yeah, I would have. Oh, it's up to eight thousand. Today it's gone down. Okay, so I don't feel so bad. It's just let's see eight thousand divided by thirteen. Oh, it was just six hundred and fifteen times more valuable today than it was when he told me about it. Whoops.

Sometimes I missed the boat on these things. Guys. You know, just because you're the tech guy doesn't mean that you have all the knowledge. But yeah, I should have probably bought some. I did a story on a bitcoin ATM They wanted me to buy some that day, and I didn't. All Right, what did I pay for my bitcoin? I don't know. I just paid twenty five bucks, so I got whatever twenty five dollars worth, but I think it was at eighteen thousand that day. I don't know, whatever

it was. It was a little bit crazy. Let's see, how come Apple four K TV only works with Belkan HDMI cables for four K sixty hurts, not wire Logic four K high speed cables. That's a good question. I don't know. I don't it works with mine. I don't have a Belkan cable and it works with mine. So I know that Apple TV just came out with an update today, so JM. I would definitely do that update and see if it works, because I know there was something funky about the way it did the four K

auto switching. So check out the update today and see if that helps. And I think it may because Apple TV four K is really cool, but they definitely had some growing pains with the whole four K resolution because, as I understand from what Apple told me, they wanted the system to be the same four K refrsh rate at all times, which presents some challenges for different apps that sort of present things in different ways. So see

that today. Paula says, I get full screen ads sometimes after I hang up a call on my Samsung S eight. My service is with AT and T. What can I do, Paula, You've got some sort of rogue app on your essay that you do not need. So what you need to do is go through every single app in your apps. Go to your settings and go to your apps, and I want you to look through every single app that is installed on there and uninstall any app that you

do not recognize or you do not need. It's some kind of game that you've installed, it's some sort of dialer that you installed, it's some sort of third party app. You need to go through every single app with a fine tooth comb, get rid of any app that you don't recognize, and that's the one that's serving up this adwear. All right, that's going to do it for the show today.

Thanks so much for listening. Is there anything I didn't mention that I wanted to I was going to talk about Google Home it works with Bluetooth devices now, and I was also going to talk about the new iPad, But you can listen to my podcast. I have a separate one on that and fipbit Versa, which the reviews are in on that, and it's pretty good. I've got my pre order in for a Fitbit Versa, which is

coming on April eighteenth, So I don't know. I love my Apple Watch, but I kinda I like the idea of the four day battery life on the Fitbit, so we'll see, all right, Thanks so much for listening. Links to everything I mentioned here look in the comments on the Facebook Live Otherwise you can look for the show notes on my website. Just go to Rich on tech dot tv slash podcast and you can find them there. Otherwise, I do appreciate you guys listening to this podcast watching

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