Massive password breach, Amazon Prime Day tips & digital detox for kids (125, June 21, 2025)

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some great guests this week. Adrian Lemao, ching CEO of Clicks, is going to join us to talk about their breakout keyboard case. Yes, you can add a physical keyboard to your smartphone, and they are doing it. We'll talk about that and later in the show. Molly defranc She will join me to talk about taking control of screen time in your family. She's the author of Digital Detos. Got the book right here, the two week Tech Reset for Kids. Yes, many families out there need that. I know that for

a fact. Well, welcome once again to the show. Thanks for joining me, and thanks for streaming the first part of the show on the KTLA plus app. This week took me to Mexico City for a brand new tech show. It's called Electronics Home. Now I'm back in the studio, but I just got back from Mexico City. Just to be clear, it's called Electronics Home. This is the first year they did this show. The organizers asked if they can bring me down to Mexico City. I said, sure,

why not. I've never been there before. And I think that the more you experience travel and the more you experience the world, the better perspective you have on just about everything, including technology and personally. I love to travel because it always forces me to try new things with technology and to check out new gadgets and to just see what it's like to make your way around this world. The group behind this show has been running a major

electronics show in Brazil for the past two decades. They recently expanded into Argentina and now Mexico City, so they have a trifecta of Latin America. Now. The show itself was very small, really small, compared to something like CS in Las Vegas or IFA in Berlin, both shows that I've attended, and it's a start. Now. Many of the companies were from China that were exhibiting their products. There were a few from Europe and the US as well. But the big takeaway for me many but number one,

Mexico is an emerging market. People there are getting disposable income, so more people are spending money. That means opportunity. But here's the thing. Price still matters more than brand for a lot of consumers there. That's a challenge if you're a premium brand going into a market because think about it, why would you spend fifty dollars as a consumer in Mexico on a charging cable when you know you can get one for five And so that's the challenge of

these brands here. They're working to educate consumers explaining, hey, we've got stuff that's better quality. It means it's going to be longer lasting. It's going to be safer for your other tech products out there. So that was one

thing I saw. The other is that some of these brands, like a Mofi are doing a sub brand like a Mofi Essentials, which is, you know a little bit of a I guess like a maybe not lesser quality, but it maybe has a few less features than the main brands so that they can charge less but still get that good brand. Tariffs, of course another hot topic. I asked just about every company there about them. Now, these companies aren't scared of tariffs in general because they're very

used to them. Tariffs have been around forever, that is not a new concept. What bothered the CEOs and the people I spoke with is the unpredictability that they're seeing right now. It's really hard to plan when you don't know if the tariff is going to be ten percent next week or forty percent, and that uncertainty is what's leading to a lot of stress, especially as we head into the holidays. How much is my pricing going to be for a particular product now. As for Mexico City itself,

I was really impressed. This is a massive historical city with lots of energy. I had no idea going there that it was like on top of a mountain range or whatever, so really high elevation. It's actually higher than Denver, over seven thousand feet compared to you know, we know Denver. Remember back to great school math. What's a mile hundred and eighty feet high mile high city? There you go, it's higher than Denver. Now, I felt it only on my run. When I took a run and I was like, oh,

I'm breathing heavy. That's when I realized the air was really thin. The people are great in Mexico City. The food is awesome and your money goes very far there. The most expensive meal I think I had was about thirty five dollars. That was at it like what I would consider a tourist trap. And yes I did try grasshoppers. Grasshoppers on guacamole. I don't I mean, look, I had to do it. I'm in you know, when in Rome, right in this case Mexico City. Let's see what else

I walked everywhere. I took ubers. They were also cheap. I went to the Wahwei store, so they've got their version of Rodeo drive. And of course I had to check out the Wahwei store because we can't have Huahwei here in the US. And I'm not kidding you walk into this store. If I blindfolded you and walked you into this store and took off the blindfold and I said where are you, you would say, oh, I'm in an Apple store and wrong answer. No, you were in

Ahahwei store. It looks identical, like literally someone just came here to the US took pictures of the Wahwei store or the Apple store and said, yeah, just make that and so yes, a little bit of a copycat. But the phones, I will tell you, I checked out the cameras really impressive. Like it's incredible how many choices of smartphones they have in overseas places like Europe and Mexico and China compared to the US and the US we are pretty much limited to Samsung, Apple, Pixel and Motorola

is like probably a tiny bit of the market. But in other countries you've got all these other brands opo zte a SEUs or is it a a sir Huaweih of course, I mean really a lot of brands out there. But what strikes me every time I travel is just how much tech has transformed the game. So I can't remember the last time I needed cash in a country that I went to. Because you can use tap to pay for just about everything, you don't need to trans

convert your cash anymore. I didn't need a new simcard, so I recently switched to a phone plan that now includes international roaming, which is really convenient. I don't have to do anything, just turn on my phone. Now, you do pay more per month, so I do not recommend you switch to a plan that has international roaming unless

you travel abroad a lot. Otherwise you're paying every month a little bit more for that, you know, for that service, So you don't necessarily need that unless you're traveling a lot. And e SIM is a great bet. I tested out two of them while I was in Mexico, Aerolow, which I've talked about many times on the show, and then a new one called Saley s Ai L s A I L E Y s A I L E Y s AI L why Sale And they both worked great. And like I said, Tap to pay is everywhere, so

use that. Lean on that. Make sure your card, whatever card you're using, does not charge foreign transaction fees. So an Apple Wallet is something else I figured out. If you want to change your default card that pops up when you tap to pay, just slide it to the front. So literally just press and hold it in your Apple Wallet and slide it to the front and that will be your default card. Took me a bit to figure that one out. Android, you can just go into the

card and press set as default. Now, when it comes to currency conversions, you can also do that right on your phone. This was another thing I figured out. On the iPhone. You can swipe down and you can just type in like two hundred and forty pass and it'll convert it instantly into dollar, So that was pretty cool. They also have built in conversions in the Calculator app. Look in the lower left hand corner. You tap the

little calculator icon. It says do conversions. You tap that and boom, No need to download anything extra Now an Android, I recommend the XE app that'll do conversions pretty easily. Other travel tips I picked up add a widget to your home screen with your time zone back home to make it easy to know what time it is back home.

Download offline maps before you travel so that you can navigate even if you don't have service, Like there may come a time when you're going from the airport to your hotel and you don't have service or connectivity just yet because maybe you haven't gotten your eSIM activated or whatever. You might need to navigate download those offline maps. That

is great. Now the other big thing, and this is a really pro tip that I've took me a while to figure this one out, but when you go to a different country and you search on Google for the first time, it's going to change your region to that country. And what does that mean? All of your search results are going to come up in my case as Mexico search results right or whatever country you're in, like you

might be in Italy and get Italian search results. That's not going to be very helpful for you as an American. So what you want to do is go into your Google account, which is your profile picture upper right hand corner of the Google main page, and it'll say settings, So you can go manage your Google account and you'll see your settings and all you have to search for is region settings and once you do that, you can

search that to your standard. Let me just I'm trying to do this as I talk to you here, but yeah, as you go into your oh here it is lower right hand corner. Sorry, settings, okay, and it says search settings. And then you go into let's see where is it other settings, and it says language and region and you tap that and it says results language filter and results region is what you want to change back to the US. And I'll put this all on the website so you

know it. But that is key because otherwise you're gonna get all those results for your local area that you're not gonna make any sense to you. So change the default region to United States, and that way you can get your your standard Google results that you like. And yes, chat GBT. This is my first major international trip with chat GBT and it's incredible. I mean it did everything for me, from telling me the neighborhoods to visit to the things to do and translating menus. I mean it

was really great. You know, I love Google's AI mode. That did not work in Mexico because I guess it's a regional thing here in the US. Still, so I ended up using perplexity a lot, which is also excellent. So if you're not trying perplexity, check that out. But the bottom line. The world indeed feels a lot smaller and more accessible than ever, and it is all thanks to that little phone in your pocket. Lean on it, use it, and with these tips you will be a

pro traveler. All right. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the camera app that I was testing over in Mexico City gives your photos a cool film like vibe. And we're going to take some of your calls at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro 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. The website for the show is richon Tech dot tv. There you can get show notes and you can also email me by hitting contact up at the top. Let's go to Oscar in Winchester, California. Oscar, you are on with Rich. What's up, Hi, Rich?

can't get it down. And then right now, also there are there's a Microsoft notification that that that is up on the screen that stays up that I can't get without, so it covers my Outlook screen and I can't get to the inbox or anything without this notification coming up.

settings on Windows. So if you go into Settings, just type in the search bar add or remove programs, and it should bring up System Settings at to remove programs and you'll see a list of all of your apps there, so it'll say installed apps. And up at the top there's a search bar. You can type in Outlook and you should find the version of Outlook that you're looking for.

And so once you do that, you're going to see a couple little dots on the right hand side and it'll say advanced options or uninstall, and you want to just tap that uninstalled. Let it go through the process of uninstalling that program from your computer, and then you want to restart your computer. And then once you do that,

then you can go to the Outlook website. Let's see here download Microsoft Outlook because there should be a version of Outlook you can get for Yeah, the new Outlook for Windows so it's free for anyone with Windows, and that's a little bit different than the program that you're talking about. I think this is more like a consumer friendly version of Outlook than the standard ones that used

to come with the office programs. So you can then view that in the Windows Store and you can download that for free, and then you'll just have to reconnect your email. And typically most email nowadays is all done server side, so you should get all your emails in there. If you're worried about your emails oscar being in the old app, you might want to export those first before you uninstall that app, so that way you have access to your emails if you need them as a backup.

But that's what I would do, and then just reinstall the new Windows or the new Outlook and you should be just fine with that system, and that's fine. That's the way to do it. So if you're getting these random little things that are happening on your computer and it's just not working out for you, get rid of it, download the new one, and it's a whole refresh like Outlook got a lot friendlier looking, I think than the standard old version. And so I use the web version

of Outlook, which is completely different. But that's just because I'm on a Mac most of the day and it's just easier for me to do it that way, and I have the installed version I do you know, I have Outlook for Mac as well. There's just one little feature that does not work for me. I've got this like distribution list that I send an email to every week, and for some reason, the Outlook for Mac does not

support that. And you know, they keep upgrading it because it's brand new, But that's that's the reason I'm not using that. Thanks for the call, Oscar, do appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Uh, let me tell you this and then we got got to go to a break. But YouTube TV, if you are a YouTube TV subscriber, a lot of

subscribers are seeing a surprise ten dollars discount. So if you're paying, remember they raise prices up to like eighty three dollars a month. Well, if you're a subscriber and you've been a subscriber for a while, I guess they're quietly rolling out this ten dollars discount for existing users, so that'll bring your price back to seventy three dollars for the next six months. So they're not promoting this.

This is not official, but if you go into your YouTube account YouTube tv account, this is if you're paying for the streaming service you know with all the TV channels, log in on a desktop browser, go into Managed plan on the YouTube tv website and the discount might show up there as a gift, and if you accept the gift, they'll take ten dollars off your account for the next six months. So again, if you got YouTube TV, go in, log in on a desktop browser, check Managed plan and

see if you have a ten dollars discount. Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Back after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. Before the break, we were talking to Oscar about uninstalling Outlook on his computer. Turns out it's not showing up in that list of ad or remove programs. So when

that's happening, a couple things it could be. It could be that it's part of Microsoft Office Suite, which has sounded like Oscar said, so in that case you might have to go to the Office Suite and uninstall it. That way. There's also a third party program that might be able to help. And this is in general, if you want to uninstall some of the programs that are on your computer that Windows is just not helping you do.

It's called Revo Uninstaller r e v O Uninstaller, and this has a free version which can do some of the basics for you. It'll uninstall your apps for free Windows apps and a couple other things. But you know, if you want kind of the pro version, you might have to pay, but I would check out the free version and just see if that helps. Let's go to let's see Karina in Las Vegas, Krena. You're on with Rich.

a couple, so it depends on how big these attachments are. Right, So if we're talking like a gig or two gigs, most of the service providers will give you up to like fifteen gigabytes of free storage, depending on the service provider. So for instance, if you were to download Dropbox, what you could do is you could upload these videos directly from your phone to the Dropbox app, and then once they're in the Dropbox app, you can delete them off

your phone. Now, Dropbox gives you two gigabytes of free storage. So let me just take a look at the amount of space of video is taking up on my phone. Okay, so let's see. Here's a standard video that's about This is about a minute long, and this video is taking up about one hundred gigabyte one hundred megabytes. So if we're doing the math on there, you know, it depends

on how much you need. The one that I probably recommend is one Drive because they're going to give you five gigs of storage for free, and it's pretty easy. You could download one Drive, you can sign up and that will give you five gigabytes of storage and you can keep that on your phone and so you'll still have access to these videos. The other one I'm looking at is let's see here. So there's a service called Pea Cloud which I was testing, and they're going to

give you ten gigabytes of free storage. And I've tested this recently. It's exactly as it sounds. Ten gigabytes is pretty good. So maybe start with that one. Let's see here, So ten gigabytes for free. And what you would do is you would just upload these videos to this this pa cloud app, and then once they're on that app safely, they'll be in the cloud. You can just delete them off of your phone and they will still live in

the cloud. So that's the way I do it. And then you can access them at any time through this app on your phone, and it's very easy. I've tried this and it's pretty simple to do, so that's probably what I recommend. So go to the website pcloud dot com or just download that app on your phone and set it up, sign up, and then once you download

that app, take you know. The app will show you in your gallery all your videos, find those little exercise video, upload them to this app, and then you can delete them one by one off your phone. And this is free pretty much forever for that amount of storage. So that's probably gonna be the easiest way to do it. There are a million ways to do what you're talking about, by the way, it's just a matter of like what

do you want to do with these videos afterwards? Like if you just wanted to offload them from your computer or your phone, I would say, you could just grab a flash drive, plug it into the bottom of your phone and drag these videos to that flash drive and then delete them. But you said you wanted to follow these exercise videos from your phone in the future, so that's probably the best way to do it. Thanks for

the call, Kreta, appreciate it. Do appreciate that. Let's see here, how long do we have Bobo before I got to go to break? Okay, got time. So let me tell you about this, this giant password leak because sixteen billion passwords. Lots of headlines about this, Lots and lots of headlines, scary, scary stuff. Everyone's saying you gotta change all your passwords right now. That is not realistic. So this is being

called the largest data breach. Ever, a lot of this was stolen via malware that logs your keystrokes, so it's not necessarily like these companies were hacked. It was computers that were hacked. And this is a gathering of stuff. So a lot of people are debating whether this is old or new. It doesn't matter. You still have to treat this as a reminder to lock things down. So number one, do not reuse passwords. If one password gets compromised, the hackers will try to use it everywhere else. That's

why you don't want to reuse your passwords. Number two, turn on two factor authentication. So you want to use an app like two fas or pretty much any two factor authentication app that you come across that you like. You can use au these good Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator. They all have their pros and cons. Two fas is nice, it works on iPhone and Android, and it's better than getting those SMS codes. So sign up for an app like that and then use a password. Man, I know

I'm a broken record. You got to use a password manager, something like bitwarden, which is great. It's free, it's cross platform that'll generate and store long unique passwords. Now, focus on protecting your key accounts. Now in this password leak, we've heard about Google, Apple, Facebook, We've heard about those passwords being involved in this. Now, if your account is out there with this password in the wild, yeah, there's

a chance that someone can log into your account. But if you have two factor authentication, you're going to be protected way more than if you don't. So do you have to go out and change your password on these accounts? If it's a password that you've been reusing for the past ten years, absolutely get out there and change it, because chances are it's in this dump. If it's not a password that you've been reusing, if it's something in a password manager, you're probably okay. And you have two

factor turned on, you're probably okay. Keep it in mind, a lot of these hacks happen when people say, oh, I got hacked on Facebook, hack on Google, I got hacked on Instagram. It's not necessarily that someone is sitting out there trying to hack your account. It's most of the time you are being tricked into entering your password on a fake website that is trying to steal your information.

So that's what's really happening a majority of the time. Now, in this case, you know a lot of these passwords were gotten via malware that steals your keystrokes from your computer. Again, your computer was hacked at some point along the way. And this happens when you download some random program or you know, whatever you're doing on your computer that you might install something that you're like, oh, wait a second, why did I just do that? And then you've got

something that's logging what you're doing on there. Now, there are some ways if you're curious. A website called cyber News has a password leak checker, so they actually have a website where you can go to you can type in your password. I know this sounds scary, and I don't recommend that you necessarily do this unless you are typing in a password that's old and you've reused a

bunch and you're just sort of curious. So I typed in a couple of my old, old passwords that I was reusing a lot before I got smart, and sure enough, yeah, it's like, oh yeah, those are out there. So if you've got those passwords you want to try to put into this website cybernews dot com slash password dash leak dash check, and you can type in a password that you've reused over the years and it will tell you, yeah,

that's out there. They've got thirty a database of thirty three million passwords that are just sitting out there, exposed on the open web. So if you're using one of those passwords from back in the day, chances are yes, it is been leaked. And again this is not new information. This stuff. I'm telling you. The steps I'm telling you to take right now are the same steps I would have told you six months ago before we had these scary headlines. It is the same main things. You have

to get used to using strong, unique passwords. Today I was logging into a new account that I created at a bank, and it was like, hey, do you want to create You have to create these security questions. Answers to security questions, name of the street you grew up on, name of your best friend when you grew up. I forget what the third one is. And I'm not kidding. I don't use real answers to those questions. Because you could figure out the street that I grew up on.

You could figure out my best friend's name when I was a kid. That's pretty common knowledge, or my school, my high school mascot. So what I do is I use a some sort of generator to make up fake answers, and I remember those answers so that if that information got out there, you wouldn't be able to figure it out because it's something that I don't even know. It's just made up. Now, you have to keep tracted. Caveat is If you're doing that, it'll keep you secure, but

you have to keep track of that information. So in your password manager there's literally a small notes field and you can type in the answers those questions and the answer, so that'll give you an added layer of security. So yeah, this stuff is not easy. I guess My point is, if you're trying to secure online, it's not something that's fast. It does take a little bit extra, but it will protect you from things like this in the future. I'll put the link to that password checker on my website.

Rich on tech dot tv eighty to eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv. This is episode one twenty six.

If you want show notes, it's all there on the website links to anything I mentioned, is right there A lot of you sending emails in let's see here we've got Greg says, so should I use the password manager on my iPhone or get the one you recommended in your latest newsletter, Greg, I recommend a third party password manager, so you can use the one on the iPhone, the Passwords app. It's safe, it's fine. But the the reason I don't like it is because it locks you into

the iPhone and iOS and all that stuff. And I just personally think that third party software is better because Bitwarden is thinking about everyone. They're thinking about how to make their app work great on iPhone, Android, Windows, Chrome, everything, versus Apple is only thinking about getting people to stick to the iPhone and so therefore they're only prioritizing things that work for iPhone users. So it's fine. If you're never going to switch out of Apple, go ahead use it.

It's simple, it's easy, it's built in. But personally, I like third party when it comes to all of my software because it works equally across everything. And that's the way I think the technology should be. I think that technology should be inclusive and getting everyone on board in

the same way versus something that excludes people. And when you're using something like passwords app on the iPhone, yeah, they've got a way that you can use it on a Windows computer, but it's just not very good, not as easy as something like a Bitwarden. Well that's the answer. But if you're fine with that, just go with it. It's built in. And yes, of course it's easy and it's simple. Then we got another email here from Let's see here? Where was it? Vic says, Hey, Rich, I

listened to your podcast. I find it very informative. You make it easy to understand technology. I'm trying to join Cantina, but it wants to access my contact list and I don't feel comfortable giving them full access. When I try to select contacts, it won't let me. Do you know if they if they contact everyone on my contact list to try Cantina, is there a way around joining without

giving them full access? Thanks, I have not heard about this app called Cantina, but yes, a lot of these apps will try to get you to sign up and give access to your full contact book because guess what is a growth hack? It helps them get this information to more people. So that is a red flag if they will not let you sign up without giving them

full access. Because what's happened is so many of these apps over the years that I've tested out, they will take access to your information and they will spam your followers or your contacts. I guess I should say, and so with this app. I'm not sure. I'm trying to go through the sign up sign up process right now while we talk. Oh wow, look, I'm already I'm already signed up for Cantina. How I've never even heard of

this app? Sorry, this email is taken? How is my email taken on an app I've never heard of in my life? Okay, I'm gonna type skip. When is your birthday? Okay? I already don't like this app. If apps are asking you for all this information, I don't know what that You must be eighteen? Okay, well so I don't know. I gotta get back to you on that one. I don't know if I like that app. Let's see here, let's go to Bill in Fullerton. Bill, what's going on?

is doing is it's looking. It's it's checking your computer to make sure that it's compatible, and it's it has a list of things that it has in its checklist. It says, yeah, this is going to make sure that that when eleven works smoothly on this computer. But if you're if you're gonna get rid of this thing anyway or like upgrade or buy a new one, I'd rather see you upgrade or force the upgrade of the software on your computer and at least use this computer as is.

So what I would do is I mentioned this article last week. There's a great article The Intelligence dot Com is a great Windows newsletter, and he talks about Chris a guy, a guest we've had on our show, talks about how you can kind of force your computer to upgrade to Windows eleven, even if it says it is

not officially supported. And the way you do this is there's an app called rufous, So you download Rufus and once you have that, that's basically going to help you create a bootable USB drive very simply, and then you download the Windows eleven disk image from Microsoft's website and all you have to do is install that and it will say a Windows User Experience window will appear, and there is an option that says move requirement for four gigabytes of RAM, secure boot and TPM two point zero.

Make sure that's checked. Install this, and now you can just install Windows eleven on here. This is not again, if Bill, if you're not sort of like a little bit advanced with your computer, but it sounds like you are based on what you just said to me. This is not for the the inexperienced person, So I think that you have to be a little bit tech savvy to try this. And of course, before you do something

like this. You want to make sure that you are backing up everything on your computer because it could all go away when you're doing this fourced upgrade. But that's what I would do. I'll put a link to this, you know, this article on my website rich on tech dot TV. But I'd probably do that before you look into, you know, opening up this tower and replacing some of those components on a computer. That's probably not meant to

do that. Rich on Tech dot TV eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to two, four one zero one. We'll talk Prime Day coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out out with you, talking technology. The website for the show is rich on tech dot TV eight eight eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four one zero one. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. We've got

a lot to talk about. Uh, we've got a great guest this hour. Remember the BlackBerry. You know, everyone loved their BlackBerry phone and had that keyboard click aty clack, click any clack. Well, if you want to bring back that experience, there's a company called Clicks that is doing that. They're making keyboard cases for a couple of the smartphones out there, like the Samsung's, the iPhones, some Motorolas, and you can actually buy them at Best Buy. But this

has been pretty popular. So we're gonna have the CEO of Clicks join us this hour to talk about how you can add a physical keyboard to your phone and just you know, I guess people like it. They've sold a bunch of them. It is Prime Day, I guess sorry, it is not Prime Day, falsel arm. I'm not spreading false news here. It is not Prime Day. Stand down. Put your credit card. Put your credit card back in your wallet? Is that a credit card in your pocket?

You're you just happy for Prime Day? That'll get Boba? See I would that be considered a dad joke or no? Yeah? Okay, Bobo, Bobo's back. By the way, Bobo is Bobo. If you didn't know, the show did not fall off the rails the last three weeks, but it could have easily because Bobo was off cruise in. Uh does that mean something different? No, You're fine with that, okay. I was celebrating my forty second Yes, happy birthday, Thank you?

But now they just keep expanding it and clearly Prime Day is doing well for Amazon, and I think some years it was like a little bit like Okay, give me a break. Now I actually think it's gotten very legitimate, like companies plan around Prime Day, and if you don't really understand how Amazon works, it kind of benefits everyone for Prime Day because there are so many Amazon affiliates out there, right, people who write about Amazon products link them up on their websites, and that website gets a

little commission from Amazon for selling products. So they have like all these sales people out there that sell products and they come up with like, you know, ten ten travel products that are the best or ten whatever, just pick any category. Websites are promoting this stuff. That's why, so Prime Day kind of works out for everyone because everyone wins. So this year, what's going to be different? Lowest prices of the year on brands like Sony, Dyson,

and Samsung. Today's Big Deals. That's a new thing. They're doing daily theme drops exclusive to Prime members. They just come up with like a different deal name every year. You're also gonna get a dollar off a gallon of gas per gallon July third through six, so good for Fourth of July weekend. That's at BP, Amoco and AMPM, but you have to sign up for that first. That program they have, Alexa Plus, is gonna help you track deals and there's gonna be all kinds. Like the bottom line,

here's what you need to know about Prime Day. Don't believe the hype. Don't go in there trying to spend money, trying to find things to buy. What you really need to do is just think about the stuff that you need and or want right. There is a difference. But put that stuff in your cart now or put it in your save for later, and then when July eighth rolls around, that's when you can look in your cart and see if these things go on sale. Now there's

a caveat. You know, all the Amazon brands are gonna go on sale, the rings, the Kindles, the fire TVs, all that stuff's gonna go on sale. A lot of big brands are gonna go on sale too, But put the stuff that you want in your cart now. And by the way, we're talking about this a couple of weeks before it happens. Prices drop in the in the hours and days leading up to Prime Day because there's so much attention around Prime Day. People are just looking

for stuff to buy. I'm already going to Amazon dot com slash Prime Day, and there's already a whole bunch of deals on all kinds of stuff. I mean, everything back to school, up to thirty percent off top products like ring I mean, there's just so much stuff that you might want to buy. But again, don't just browse the website. That's gonna You're gonna lose money in the end doing that. What you want to do is think

about the stuff you need. Look around your house, even things that you eat, things that you need, like to restock. It sounds silly, but that's the best way to get the most out of Prime Day. It's like buying the stuff that you're gonna get anyway. It's like going into Costco. When you go into Costco for one thing, right, they get you because you want to buy your coffee that you like at Costco and it's inexpensive because you buy it in bulk. Well, most people can't walk out of

Costco with just buying that one thing. They parade through all the aisles and there's so many great deals and you end up spending a couple hundred bucks just because you came in for that coffee or I mean paper towels, toilet paper. Why do you think they put all those on the back wall. You gotta walk all the way through Costco and there's it's like you know, you're a kid in a candy store when you're an adult at Costco, right, there's so many things and it's and don't get me wrong,

Costco is a good deal. You compare the price you're gonna paid anything at Costco, it's gonna be better than on anywhere else you go. But the thing is you're buying a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And usually there's one or two things you buy that you probably didn't go in for, that you don't really need,

but you buy anyway. That's how it goes. So anyway, Prime Day is happening with that said, I do have a list of I just created on my website a list of some of the products that I like because people always ask me what's your go to gadgets and gear, So I made a list of my go to gadgets in gear and I put it all on there. This is stuff that I've tested that I like, and it's all linked up. So if you want to see if that stuff goes on sale for Prime Day, check it out.

Rich on tech dot TV. The thing I did test on my trip to Mexico City is a portable carbon monoxide detector. I'm sure you've heard the stories in the you know, these couple of stories throughout the years where there's been some unfortunate incidents where carbon monoxide has claimed lives. You know, people are in a rental place or in a hotel room. Now, I don't think this is a

prevalent thing. I don't think it's a major issue, but it has happened, and it's happened enough, or when I've stayed in a rental I'm like, Okay, I want to have one of these things in there, because you never know. And so I tested this new one, which is a digital one. It's small, it's compact, it's got a digital readout.

And the wild thing is I plug this thing in or actually it's it's a cordless so I didn't have to plug it in, but I charged and the first night I'm in my hotel room, the thing is given a reading of thirty, like thirty ppm of COO and I'm like, uh, oh, what the heck, what am I supposed to do? It was ten o'clock at night. I turned this thing on and I'm like, great, my room is filled with carbon monoxide. That's not good, now, I

figured at the end of the day. So I ended up putting on putting on my shoes, and walking downstairs in my pajamas at this hotel and I went outside with this little carbon dioxide detector. I'm like, let me see if it changes to zero. And it did change to like a little bit less, but it was still a little bit on the high end. But I was like, you know what, this thing has an alarm on it. If it's if it's a problem, it's going to alarm. So clearly it thinks it's under the threshold, which I

think is about fifty. Even though you don't want to be in any sort of COO exposure for a long time. But anyway, so it finally worked out. It was fine. I survived my first night of sleep. I was like, well, that's it. That's it for rich On Tech. I'm to go to sleep and quietly just never wake up all because I've decided to not listen to this carbon monoxide detector. But for the rest of the week, the odd thing was there was no reading in my room over zero.

So I don't know if something was going on that night or what, but it did have a reading. But this thing's cool because it's got the carbon monoxide reading, it's got the temperature, the humidity and the air quality and so it's all in one and it's really really great. So anyway, it's forty bucks. If you want to see if it goes on sale. You don't need to buy it today, but put it in your cart. See if it goes on sale for Prime Day, because you know, I paid full price, but you know, maybe go on

sale for the next couple of days. All right, I'll put that on the website. Rich On Tech Dot TV eighty to eight, rich one On one eighty eight, seven four to two, four to one zero one will do more of your calls. Plus, I'm going to tell you about WhatsApp. They are adding ads for the first time ever. And this is another thing we used in Mexico City. The little group of people I was with, we all

use WhatsApp. It was fantastic, such a great way to keep in touch with people that are using different phones. I'll tell you about the ads plus your calls coming up right here. I'm Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple A. Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go to Laurna in Long Beach. You're on with Rich.

paper towels. Sounds like you're doing surgery on this printer here. I mean, it seems like a lot. I would say I wouldn't spend any more money on this printer to fix this or to try this, but I would other than following their printing. You know, they're they're kind of like built in print head cleaning process. It says you might need to do it up to three to four times, so that's the only thing I can think of. There's

also a printer diagnostic test. This might help with the HP Print and Scan Doctor, So that might be something you look into and maybe that can help you out. It's called hp Print and Scan Doctor for Windows, and that might be a way to see what's going on with this printer. Otherwise, you can take this printer into a place like you break I fixed, and you can get them to give you like a free estimate on how much it might cost to fix this thing. But

I wouldn't really spend any extra money on it. If I were you, I would just go with the brother laser jet printer if you need me in depends if you need color or not, but I would just go with the Brother laser jet. There's a I'll link up the model number on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. But that's probably what you want to do, is just get something simple that's inexpensive, because ten years is a pretty good run for a printer, but I'd like for

it to last longer. But if it's not working and the print head cleaning is just not it sounds like you've done everything you need to do to get these print heads cleaned and it's just not giving you that error free message. The only other thing I would think to do, and you might want to try this, is do a reset, like a factory reset of this printer. You can go into settings and in the settings it'll

say like factory reset printer. You might want to try that, and that's going to clear all the settings and that's going to bring this thing back to factory. You're gonna have to reset it up, but that might clear out that error message. Good question, Lorna, that's a tricky one eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one coming up, We're gonna

talk physical keyboards for your smartphone right here. Welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Is this genie in a bottle? Oh my gosh? When did that hold on? This song is like nineteen ninety nine, you're talking that song is twenty six years old. We're old. Wow wow, Okay, that is just time is

going way too fast, all right? Eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. Rich on tech dot tv is the website. Joining me now, Adrian Lemouching, CEO of Clicks. They are making keyboard cases for various smartphones and it's been quite successful. Adrian, thanks for joining me, Rich. Great to be here, absolutely so if someone hasn't heard of Clicks, explain what it is.

know the demand is there. We know that there is, and ultimately, I think a lot of people who you know, yeah, they like their they're like an iPhone with a keyboard case on it, but some really do want to have just a phone like a Blackberries have experience again.

You know, we're always listening to our customers and we want to try and make the best keyboard experience out there for people.

She put she sat on the set, she sat down, took her phone out, put it on the table and I had your product on that and she started telling you all about it.

about that aspect. But of course as people use these things and they find these aspects that really benefit them, Like I'm thinking of specifically the ray band glasses, Like a lot of people in the accessibility community were like, oh my gosh, these are so great for this, this and this, and I just think that's a that's a neat side effect of all this stuff.

And I kind of let her finish what she was doing, and I said, oh, you know, I'm really impressed how you're navigating through iOS and how you're doing this transaction For me. I just want to let you know, you know, the reason I'm buying the phone, and you know, I let out and I said, look, we're developing this product.

You know, it might not be something that everybody will out there take out, take and grab, but I think, you know, there is definitely a really strong community out there and people that want a product like this.

one zero one. I guess since were past it, I can I can mention what happened last weekend, but UH had a little issue with the phone lines. And that was interesting because I don't know what happened. Well I do know what happened, but it's just long story short. Apparently we were affected by some sort of I don't know. People are trying you know what. I'm not even gonna get into it. It's not worth it. But the point is we're back this week. We've got our calls, we've

got our callers, We've got Kim, We've got Bobo. We are firing on all cylinders this week. Kim chimed in with her twenty first birthday Bobo. She went to Chevy's, the Chevy Chevy's, Yeah, the Mexican restaurant. Yeah. She went there after work and had her first legal margarita. Oh, first legal Not quite as exciting as Vegas, but yeah, you know that. You know what Chevy's has. I don't know if there's one around here. They've got They've put on every plate. I think, like this little like sweet

corn thing. Oh, it's like a little scoop of cor yes, oh so good. Yeah, Like I just want that for my whole meal. Oh, speaking of things, I ate, I did I tell you this? I ate a grasshopper in Mexico? Have you what have you ever eaten a grashopper? I have no desire to eat an insect. So they come, you can get it on the side with your guacamole, So it comes. It just sounds worse a little bowl of grasshoppers for like they're like, I don't know, dried

out freeze, dride, whatever you want to call it. And then you like put some on your guacamole and eat it. And you did it. I tried it. Come on, would you not try it? Why not?

the other devices you were talking about. Now, I test a lot of devices, and believe me, there is a wide range of Wi Fi reception on the various devices that I test. Like, for instance, Samsung phones have probably the best Wi Fi and cellular reception out of any device that I test. It's just the way they make them. Pixel probably has the worst Wi Fi reception. And that's also Google by the way, and so you know, an iPhone somewhere in between. So I think the first thing

is has this been happening since you first got this Chromebook? No? No, okay, So it could be that this thing is, like you said, it's used a lot, but a year a very small amount of time for a computer. So what I would do is the neat thing about chromebooks is that you can factory reset them without losing the data because it's all basically done in the cloud. Like this, this computer is just something that you sign in with your Google account and you're browsing the web. Correct, yes, uh huh?

So have you heard of that on the chromebook? Okay, so you can basically powerwash this computer, which is a factory reset of the entire computer, so it's going to be back to the when you open this thing up for the first time. So that's what I would do, is what called the powerwash. I'll put the instructions on my website in the show notes rich on tech dot TV. But basically, you sign out of your Chromebook, you press

and hold control alt shift are, and then you press restart. Okay, okay, so you sign out control alt shift are, select restart, and then you'll see a box and in that box you'll see powerwash and that basically the name implies what it's doing. It's giving your computer a power washing, which means it's going to clear out all the junk, clear out any settings that you changed, it's going to delete all the Wi Fi networks that you've connected to, and

it's going to reset your Chromebook. And then once you reset it, you can open it up, sign back in with your Google account. Everything should be there and then hopefully the problem is fixed and you won't have this issue anymore, and that'll also get rid of any little lingering issues that might be happening. The only thing is you have to know is that ninety nine percent of what you're doing on the chromebook is in the cloud.

Do you have any sort of oh, we got to go, but that that should be just fine just back up any fire that might be on an external drive. Great question, Daisy, Thanks so much for the call. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. Kim is standing by, get you on the air. Bobo's dancing. I'm just doing my thing here on the mic. The

website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If you're not following me on social media, check me out on Instagram. Got a couple of posts of note. If you want to see a trifolding phone, I've got that. A watch that has earbuds built into it. That's kind of cool. I think it's only available in Mexico, but it's still fun to look at. And then a couple I got my number one hotel hack number one. I am sharing all my secrets. By the way, I mentioned that WhatsApp is getting at so you probably see a

lot of a lot of headlines about that. The thing is look all these companies of Meta, you know, Meta owns WhatsApp. They bought them. They got to make some money on it. So this is what they're doing. They're going to put ads in the updates tab. I never even looked at the updates tab until I just looked at this. It is basically like the status update area. So that's where you're going to start seeing ads if

you're looking at that section. Most people, I think, are looking at the chats, which is what I use it for. WhatsApp was was instrumental in Mexico because there's you know, ten or fifteen of us on the trip, and we all have different phones, this and that, and I said, hey, can we just use WhatsApp. Let's just make a WhatsApp group. And it's perfect because everyone is It's a level playing field.

WhatsApp works the same on every single device, So you want to send a big picture, video link, whatever, no matter what phone you have, you can use it. And so that's what people love. I mean, outside the US, WhatsApp is huge. I mean everyone uses it. Hearing the US people use it, but you know, I message is

really kind of the king of everything. Sadly, I say, sadly, because again I like cross platform applications, and yes, I message has gotten a lot better with RCS versus you know, exchanging messages between iPhone and Android has gotten a lot better because of RCS. But still people are not I Message, and people get all bent out of shape. Oh you're making the group green or whatever. That's nonsense to me in a world of technology that should work equally well

for everyone anyway. Besides the point, so your personal chats, your messages will remain ad free and most importantly, end to end encryptied, which is really what WhatsApp is all about. No one can tap into those messages that you sent on WhatsApp. No one, no government, no, not even Meta themselves. So that's why people like it because it is private and encrypted by default. Let's go to Sherry in Orange County. Sharry, you're on with Rich.

I think where that's coming from is your There's two places that you can potentially do that first off, in your contacts if you go to your con If you go to your contacts and you go to yourself, which is my card up at the top, you should delete your work email out of there.

Because what happened is if you if you selected that auto complete a couple of times throughout the years, your iPhone just learns that that's what you're using, and they kind of put that there at the top because it's it's just what they're doing.

that should fix it. Restart your phone and see if that helps the next time you go to type in an email. For what it's worth, Sherry, uh. I. For some reason, the only email address my iPhone does not auto complete is my email address. It does every other email address in the world except mine, and I'm not sure why that's doing that. So I've got it in my contact let me just maybe, you know what, let me just make sure it's in my contact card now

that I've got you here. Yeah, I've got it right there, and so I its just for some reason, it auto completes every other email address in the world except for mine. So that's it. Okay. Number two, change the admin on a Facebook page.

I can't go through these on the air right here because there's just too many settings. But typically go into your settings on Facebook, look under page rolls, and if it's not page rolls, it could also be page set up, depending on the version of Facebook that you're using. I think you're probably using I would hope the new page experience, so that's under settings, and then page set up, and then choose the user, give them access and then you'll have to confirm that and then they can probably go

through and delete you. Okay, all right, sure you have a little bit of homework.

change like every week. So I'm looking at my page setup. Okay, here we go, page set up, and I'm looking for the page recommendations, page access. Okay, here we go page access, and there's me and there's my wife, and okay, so if I yeah, I can set let's see remove access, remove access. Oh I can remove access to my own self. That's scary, but yeah. So if you look at it, it should be where you can add someone as an

admin right there. And so that's what I would do and just add her as the admin, make sure she has complete access, and then she can go into this the people with Facebook access setting and delete you out. Good question eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Uh if you like Xbox Game Pass, you can get two months free if you have a Samsung TV or a monitor. So this is a new deal because Samsung has a

new deal with EA Sports FC twenty five. I guess you can play it with no console on a Samsung TV or a monitor now, which is pretty cool. So this is in the Samsung Gaming hug Hub. But because they did that, they are giving people an Xbox game Pass UH subscriber two months. So two months of this for free. That's about twenty dollars a month. That's forty dollars. Yeah, are you familiar with game You're you know? What do you have? The Ultimate? Of course? Yeah? Now I've done

so many free trials of this. I've never I think I've only paid for it one month. But I every every like gadget like computers and things they come with like a I don't know, just always I'm always getting like months of free.

don't have to. I mean, you can play Fortnite for free, but if you get the Season Pass, it can cost you anywhere from eight ninety nine to you can get the subscription for I thinks twelve bucks a month. Oh wow, twelve dollars a month. But that you don't you get a lot with that. But you don't need game Pass to play for any game.

back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demurro here hanging out with you, talking technology website for the show Rich on Tech dot TV. Let's go to uh Tom in or cut, California. Tom You're on with Rich by Rich.

Intel Core one's Intel Core Ultra. You know Ultra obviously is gonna be a little bit better. It's got the AI stuff, but you'd be fine with the Core. So but yeah, Intel Core seven or Core five, or you can go with the a MD. I would say when it comes to am D, you know, same thing. You can go five or seven. But you know, they also have these new computers that have the Qualcomm chips in them, which is like a Snapdragon X. Those are gonna be a little bit less powered, but for what you're needing,

they're gonna be just fine as well. So if you see a computer with snap Dragon X that's gonna be fine.

You want a I would say probably five twelve to one terabyte gig hard drive and most of the time these are going to be SSD drives. That's going to be much faster than a standard hard drive. Let's see what else. And of course you just want to look for your USB C ports. You want to make sure it has that. You want good wireless. I think that's going to do it. So brands specifically, I think the brand to look at that I really like as the

a SEUs. I like two brands. The Vvo Book is going to be sort of an overall great computer, the Vivo Book. They often go on sale at best Buy, so do not pay full price, but like this one that I'm looking at, this VVO book S fourteen, which is highly rated. It's nine hundred and fifty dollars. This thing been on sale for as low as like five hundred dollars, So definitely be on the lookout for, you know,

deals on that. And you want something that has a big screen, make sure you get fifteen fourteen fifteen sixteen inch screen is going to be best, especially if you're using your computer for all those years. The other one I like is the one I'm using over here. This is a a sus Zen book that's going to be a little bit more expensive, a little more sleek and slick,

but that's a really good one as well. So those are two good laptops, but really, any laptop that you find that has those specs that I mentioned, I think you're going to good with Tom. Thanks for the call and thanks for using a computer that long great for the world. Coming up, we're going to talk to Molly to Frank, host of digit Our, author of Digital DTOs, a two week tech reset for kids. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich On tech dot tv is the website.

Joining me now is Mollie de Frank. She's got a new book called Digital Detox, The two Week Tech Reset for Kids. Mollie, thanks for joining me today.

how to help other parents do it. And I've had so many parents come back to me and say, I cannot believe how quickly and how well this worked in my family.

I was and I'm not. Look. I get that the world has changed in the time since I was a kid, and I get it, But at the same time, you still need to be a kid, and when you're on your screen, you're just not like it's very different of how you're developing as a child.

bored and irritable and ornery. And what went wrong and what we know and what we're seeing us the research is just pouring out, is that this is not the same technology, and it's purposefully designed to addict our kids, and there are there are very little, if any redemptive value in our kids digital entertainment right now.

So what is kind of the framework of your two week digital detalks.

two full weeks. And I know that sounds really scary, but I promise you can do it and it will absolutely change your life.

to do for every type of family. And then the second half of the book is how to make a new long term plan that sustains those great results while you're still using and enjoying digital entertainment in its right place.

what they're interested in is completely changed. It's a lot healthier, and then you can decide, yeah, a treat once, you know, every now and again. But our kids today, the standard American screen diet, eight to twelve year old kids are spending forty hours per week on digital entertainment, and thirteen to eighteen year olds are spending fifty hours a week. I mean, these kids are like working the equivalent of a full time job on just digital entertainment that doesn't even count school.

That's how it was with my kids. Some families say the first day or two can be difficult, their kids are complaining, they're getting used to it. But really, what you're doing is you're resetting the dopamine levels in your kids' brains, because these devices are purposefully engineered to release so much dopamine in the brain that, by comparison the dopamine that kids are getting from things in the real world, it doesn't even register. So that's what you're doing. You're giving

them a dopamine reset. And now after a couple of days, after two weeks, now they can look around and actually enjoy going for a walk or going for a bike ride, or you know, reading a book.

But one tip, what's a small step parents can take if they can't go all in on the detox right away, what's one small step they can take to reduce the screen overload.

Oh my gosh, so many you know. I come in every week with like a million things to talk about. I don't always get to all of them, but I do want to mention a couple of things. First off, there's a new camera app from Adobe called Indigo. This was developed by two of the original creators of the Pixel and Google camera app. So if you want to upgrade the camera app on your iPhone, maybe you have an older iPhone, this will work all the way back to iPhone twelve pro and up. So yeah, check it out.

It's Indigo. I've been trying it out and it just gives you a lot more control uses computational photography and if you like I mean, this may not be for like the casual average, but if you like to edit things in light room and Adobe, this is probably for you. So the goal is to give your iPhone photos a more natural, sl art style look. So again it's called the Indigo Camera. If you just like to try, you know,

camera apps. That one's really cool. The other one I was posting a lot of pictures with was the West Camera app on iPhone and it gives your pictures that old filmic quality. The other thing to look at on my instagram is why your web browser matters because Duc Ducco has this new scam blocker feature that can detect fake online sites, crypto scams, virus pop ups, and yeah,

it's really good. It actually works. So if you click a link on your phone or your computer that is going to lead you to a website that's going to try to steal information from you, this will stop it. And I tested a bogus like a phony website on both Duc duc Go Chrome and Safari and Brave. Duc Duco and Chrome blocked the website and said warning, warning, Warning, Safari and Brave let you go right to the website.

So if you're trying to protect yourself from being tricked, you might want to consider changing your default web browser on your computer and your phone. And that's on my instagram at richon Tech you can read more about that. All right, let's get to the feedback. We've got a lot to get through. John Wrights In I picked up a set of shocks Open Run pro to sport headphones at Best Buy phenomenal sound. I got tired of earbuds jammed in my ears and over the year headphones were

just too bulky for workouts. These are lightweight, stay put, and you never sweat into them. Definitely worth checking out, John, Yes, I do love the Shocks Open Run. I don't know what model number I have, but I've been testing them out and yeah, they're great because they use what's called bone conduction, so you put them basically, they don't go in your ears at all. They sit on your face, like almost right in front of your ears, and then go around the back of your neck. Yes, they do

sound great. I'm not as good as like traditional air pods or headphones, like you said, but if you want to be more aware of your surroundings, you don't want anything in your ears. That's going to be a great great alternative shocks open run earbuds or headphones. I guess you call them. Ken writes in I recently bought a Moto G five G phone and I've been trying over and over to get the eSIM working with no luck. I'm using consumer cellular, and eventually they just had to

send me a physical SIM card. Is this a common problem? By the way, I was born in Manhattan. They used to love looking across the river at the amusement park on the New Jersey side. I enjoy listening to your show. Thank you, Ken. Yeah, eSIMs are hit or miss. Sometimes they work perfectly and flawlessly. Other times. Yeah, you'll get some issues with them, but I would say for the

majority of people they probably work pretty well. But a physical SIM offers more flexibility because it can be easily moved from phone to phone if you're switching phones a lot. But on the flip side, the eSIM is embedded into the phone, so there's no moving parts, there's nothing to lose, nothing to pop out, and it's easy to switch theoretically from one phone to another. So maybe in the future you can give another run, But you probably want to go into a physical store if they had one, to

get some help with that next time around. Elizabeth writes in Hey, Rich, I listen to the radio show every week. I really enjoy it. I'm not tech savvy, but your show has helped me learn so much. I use all Mac devices, which I love, but I run a PC just for my CAD program. Not long ago, you recommended a great simple printer that scans copies prints. I wrote it down but lost the note. Could you remind me? Yes,

the simple printer I mentioned was the Brother. Let me make sure this is the right thing that I wrote down here, this is the brother yep, oh see this is not it you wanted the one. That's uh. I got to look in the show notes, but it's been well. Great question. Great answer your question, because I don't even have it. Let's see if I can find this. I see them using up all my feedbag time. Here. Let's see if I can find this quickly. Brother. Here we go. Nope, nope, nope, yep,

here it is. Nope, Okay, I gotta look it up. But yeah, it's a Brother printer. It's gosh. Okay, Well, off to come back to that one. Let's go to Bob writes and I use unique passwords for every site I visit and rely on a password manager Bitwarden to generate and store them. But today there are login issues with Bitwarden's US servers, which means that functionality is compromised. Luckily, I have copies of the really important passwords. Just a reminder.

In the digital world, anything can break, that is true. The downside of you using a password manager, if you can't log into it, that could be a problem. So be sure you save the master password and the recovery password, and you can export your passwords out of there to save. But you got to be careful because that's usually unencrypted, and so if you just have that file floating around

in your computer, that could be really bad. So maybe for your main passwords to like Gmail, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, maybe keep those written down somewhere in a safe in your house. Good reminder. Richard and Washington say says, Hey, rich I have a number of friends who use the blank box. I'm not going to say the name, and rave about how it lets them watch free content. Is this legit or is it like Napster? Too good of a thing to last? Yeah, Richard, I do not recommend

any of these gray market streaming boxes. They usually operate in a legal gray area, streaming content without proper rights or licenses. The box itself, the software may not be updated. It could expose you to different things. So I cannot recommend those in any way, shape or form. Stick to the legitimate streaming services. Sarah writes in, Hey, Rich, it seems there's no whisper Flow for Android. Is there anything similar? No, I have not found a similar app. Whisper Flow is

excellent for voice to text on the iPhone. They are coming to Android. It's just a matter of when. Gabriel writes in, Hey, my name is Gabriel. I really enjoy your show. I'm listening on twelve eighty KIT using a nineteen forty seven tube radio and I love it. Just wanted to share this thought. I can't imagine what the CEOs of RCA, Zenith or Ge in the nineteen forties would think if they saw their product still working in the twenty twenties broadcasting the rise of AI technology. That

is so cool. Thanks for Gabriel from Yakima, Washington. Oh my gosh. Anna in Long Beach says you can make the Chevyes sweet corn cake at home chee cheese sweet corn cake mix from Walmart. Just add butter, water and water and a can of cream corn bacon and joy. There you go. And Joel writes in to say he enjoys the newsletter and podcasts and watches me on TV. He appreciates all the valuable info and just wants to say thanks. Well, thank you, Joel. Your email made my day.

All right, that's going to do it for this episode of the show links everything I mentioned on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. Coming up next week. Todd Weavers, CEO of Pure Purism. They make privacy first smartphones and one made in the USA. One reminder before I go, please do not text and drive. Whatever it is, it can wait. It's not your safety, it's the safety of everyone around you. Thanks everyone who makes this show possible.

Bobo Kim. My name is rich Dedmiro. I will talk to you real soon.