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Episode 441 - Software as a Service - Does it Make Sense? · TechtalkRadio

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Speaker 1: is tech talk Radio. All right, So speaking to questions,
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Speaker 1: we have a question in from Cecilia. Cecilia has a
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Speaker 1: mom that is a little older and does communicate with
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Speaker 1: an iPhone. The only problem is Cecilia's mom ended up
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Speaker 1: typing the wrong code on her iPhone. That's happened to
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Speaker 1: me before. And mine was crazy because mine was in
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Speaker 1: my pocket and it kept you know, I didn't have
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Speaker 1: it the I didn't have it to go to sleep,
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Speaker 1: so it was on. So and that could be bad
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Speaker 1: because it could actually phone, you know, accidentally phone they
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Speaker 1: call it butt dialing. It could phone somebody, but it
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Speaker 1: kept trying to log in with the wrong password, and
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Speaker 1: next thing you knew, I was locked out. And that's
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Speaker 1: what happens with your your iPhones. If you, you know,
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Speaker 1: enter the wrong password after so many times, it will lock.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes it'll say locked for twenty four hours, locked
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Speaker 1: for forty eight, locked for twenty eight weeks either way.
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Speaker 1: So and this could be a lifeline for a lot
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Speaker 1: of people. And unfortunately if this happens. What are the options. Well,
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Speaker 1: one thing is you can usually re enable your device,
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Speaker 1: if it's an iPhone or an iPad, and we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the Apple platform here. You can re enable the
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Speaker 1: device Cecilia by logging into the iCloud account on the computer.
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Speaker 1: Now that's if there is a computer, and that is
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Speaker 1: one way to do it. The problem is, and Cecilia's
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Speaker 1: a full email tells us that her mom doesn't remember
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Speaker 1: her user name. Now this might be a little investigating
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Speaker 1: on your part. You may have to go into your like again.
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Speaker 1: You can check her computer if she has one, to
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Speaker 1: see if she's ever sent out an email, if she's
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Speaker 1: logged into her iCloud. If you type in you know
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Speaker 1: iCloud dot com. Does it come up and autopropagate the
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Speaker 1: user name. Even if it doesn't do the past ord,
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Speaker 1: at least you have the username. That can be a benefit.
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Speaker 1: But or if you've ever emailed you know Mom, sometimes
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Speaker 1: better just pick up the phone a call. But if
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Speaker 1: you've ever emailed Mom, it might be in there as well.
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Speaker 1: But if there is no go on that one one
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Speaker 1: of the other options you have at this point, if
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Speaker 1: it's completely locked out, and I will say this one
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Speaker 1: that shouldn't go first, but you can reset the phone. Now.
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Speaker 1: The problem with resetting the phone is if your mom
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Speaker 1: has taken a lot of photos, Cecilia, your mom has notes,
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Speaker 1: your mom likes to keep all her texts. If she
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Speaker 1: does text, that can be a problem because then that
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Speaker 1: can wipe that all away. And that's why I always
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Speaker 1: recommend you know backups. You know, get your your parents,
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Speaker 1: your kids, whoever, yourself, if you've got an eye device,
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Speaker 1: even an Android device too, to make backups because you
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Speaker 1: never know when something like this happened. I've heard stories
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Speaker 1: of people not only being locked out of their devices,
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Speaker 1: but their devices being lost or stolen, and then you
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Speaker 1: know they lose access to everything. So that's one way.
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Speaker 1: The next step, and you can't expect it to work
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Speaker 1: right away. This could take actually a little bit of time.
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Speaker 1: If you have the proof of purchase, if you have documentation,
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Speaker 1: and if your mom could go with you, that's great.
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Speaker 1: In this case, Cecilia said that her mom was a
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Speaker 1: hospital bound. She was in the hospital, so she but
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Speaker 1: you wanted her to have her smartphone. That one thing
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Speaker 1: you could do is you could visit in an Apple store. Now,
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Speaker 1: for those of us in the Tucson area, if you're
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Speaker 1: listening outside of the Tucson area, you may want to
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Speaker 1: check to find out where your Apple store is. They
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Speaker 1: can be helpful. You could go in there and you
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Speaker 1: could explain the situation. If you have your mom's ID
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Speaker 1: again proof of purchase, you may be able to appeal
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Speaker 1: to one of the geniuses there and they may be
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Speaker 1: able to help you get that phone reset. But again,
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Speaker 1: there is a possibility you could lose all that. Now,
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Speaker 1: there is some really good discussions on the Apple website.
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Speaker 1: You may want to take a look and jump online
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Speaker 1: to support dot apple dot com. Again, you would need
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Speaker 1: an internet connection, a cable that could charge the smartphone
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Speaker 1: if it hasn't been charged. And again it can be
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Speaker 1: MAC or PC. But that's that's one way to get
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Speaker 1: her done. Now. Some people have said in the past, well,
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Speaker 1: what about face ID if you're with your mom and
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Speaker 1: it has a face ID set up, you could try
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Speaker 1: that too. That could be another one where you know,
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Speaker 1: you just look at the phone, it recognizes and it
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Speaker 1: can reset that way, so you know, I'm sorry. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a terrible That's honestly a really bad thing to
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Speaker 1: happen when it gets locked out and can be super frustrating.
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Speaker 1: But hopefully that will help you. I'd love to know
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Speaker 1: you know how that worked out for you. In our
7:02
Speaker 1: TV tech segment that we do on News thirteen, you
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Speaker 1: could see those generally every Monday. We do those on
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Speaker 1: Chemist by Fox eleven, right after the eight o'clock hour.
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Speaker 1: We've been doing those since I want to say, we
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Speaker 1: started in two thousand and four. We started at KWBA.
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Speaker 1: We did a couple of segments there and it was
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Apple sent us. I remember the
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Speaker 1: first one we did. They sent us the big, old,
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Speaker 1: huge iMac, which was great. We got a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk about those. But again we're talking way back, you know,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three, two thousand and four, and then
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Speaker 1: over time we ended up the producer who put that
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Speaker 1: segment together. Stephanie ended up moving over to KOLD and
7:47
Speaker 1: she brought me on to KLD and we would do
7:50
Speaker 1: a segment. We called it Tech Tuesday, So every Tuesday
7:55
Speaker 1: we would go in and we'd chose something and back
7:57
Speaker 1: then in the mid two thousand towards Slate two thousands,
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Speaker 1: it was so easy to get product because, I mean,
8:07
Speaker 1: the Internet was growing, influencers were not really a thing yet,
8:14
Speaker 1: so me as a little guy doing a you know,
8:17
Speaker 1: doing a TV segment in southern Arizona, I could just
8:20
Speaker 1: jump on the phone and call it representative at Apple.
8:24
Speaker 1: I could call it representative at Verizon. I could call
8:26
Speaker 1: it representative at Microsoft. I could call it representative at
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Speaker 1: Adobe and just say, hey, I'm putting together the segment.
8:33
Speaker 1: I want to feature the product. And they would just
8:36
Speaker 1: do all kinds of great stuff and they would send
8:38
Speaker 1: over the product and we get a chance to look
8:40
Speaker 1: at it for a couple of weeks and send it back.
8:42
Speaker 1: But it was always easy to get stuff in our hands.
8:45
Speaker 1: And boy, that has changed TV kind of. It's still
8:50
Speaker 1: a we love our segment and TV segments have been great,
8:54
Speaker 1: but the influencers kind of took over that because here
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Speaker 1: I am in a TV market, and yes, we do
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Speaker 1: put our segments online and people do watch them, uh,
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Speaker 1: but the TV, the TV market takes a back door
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Speaker 1: to influencers. They reach a wide audience with TikTok and
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Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram reels and Snap. Well Snap, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if Snap really is used by influencers, but but
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Speaker 1: I mean, you really, really really YouTube shorts I have
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Speaker 1: done a great job in building their audiences. And there's
9:31
Speaker 1: some really great uh YouTuber YouTubers out there that do
9:37
Speaker 1: great job with information about tech. Uh, and they've they've
9:41
Speaker 1: done a great job with it. But it used to
9:43
Speaker 1: be used to be super easy. It's not as much
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Speaker 1: this this you know anymore, but it was cool. We
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Speaker 1: were able to put together a segment this past Monday
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Speaker 1: and we talked about a growing trend in the tech
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Speaker 1: world called software as a service. Now you may remember
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Speaker 1: in years past you would go and you would buy
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Speaker 1: a software for doing a task. We'll take for example,
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Speaker 1: I'll just take one big example was into It into It,
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Speaker 1: which their tech support I believe was located here in Tucson.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it still is, but say QuickBooks.
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Speaker 1: For many that were starting a small business, quick Books
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Speaker 1: was one of the easiest to use, one of the
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Speaker 1: most full featured. You would go out and you would
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Speaker 1: buy the software, and I want to say, we could
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Speaker 1: run anywhere from one hundred and fifty three four hundred dollars,
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Speaker 1: all right, but you could use it for as long
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Speaker 1: as you had it. Now, over time, a company like
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Speaker 1: QuickBooks or into it would introduce new features like if
10:52
Speaker 1: you want to do job costing, you want to just
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Speaker 1: share it whether the other users maybe in your office
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Speaker 1: that would put together statement or quotes or invoices, and
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Speaker 1: you can have more users that would be using it.
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Speaker 1: And of course Microsoft are into it, changed its business
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Speaker 1: model to make that available. A lot of people loved it.
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Speaker 1: I mean I loved it. I was a quick Books
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Speaker 1: user from the very beginning, and software as a service
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Speaker 1: came along. And what happened is, you know, and it's
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Speaker 1: only taken me recently to realize that, Okay, it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: And I know that's probably taken off some people who
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Speaker 1: have bought software and they get upset because maybe they're
11:38
Speaker 1: not able to use that software anymore. And I'll get
11:40
Speaker 1: to that in a second. But and I've talked about
11:42
Speaker 1: the issues I did have with Adobe. But what happens
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Speaker 1: is these companies they continue to innovate. They don't just
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Speaker 1: put out of software and say here's the software, use
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Speaker 1: it now. For many of us, that was great. Quick
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Speaker 1: Books was phenomenal. It did exactly what you needed it
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Speaker 1: to do. I go back on my years past and
12:09
Speaker 1: I look at some of the invoices for my business.
12:13
Speaker 1: I had a first desktop publishing business, then computer repair
12:17
Speaker 1: business that I would do even here at this radio
12:21
Speaker 1: station that we broadcast on. I was actually hired as
12:24
Speaker 1: a videographer before I was ever a DJ on this station.
12:28
Speaker 1: I had done radio, and I love the story about
12:31
Speaker 1: this one. I had done radio at in Tucson. We
12:35
Speaker 1: had a number one morning show for a couple of years.
12:38
Speaker 1: We were you know, we had a lot of listeners
12:40
Speaker 1: that would tune in, and we had moved here from
12:43
Speaker 1: Palm Springs where we also did very good Me and
12:45
Speaker 1: my former partner Barry Donovan, who is no longer with us,
12:48
Speaker 1: but we had a pretty great morning show. And then
12:52
Speaker 1: when things changed started to change in radio and the
12:57
Speaker 1: market kind of went boom and bust. Then it was
13:01
Speaker 1: trying different things, went over to a couple of different stations.
13:05
Speaker 1: This show somehow just kept surviving and would show up
13:09
Speaker 1: at different stations and it was great. The station the show,
13:14
Speaker 1: if you don't know, came with me from Pump Springs
13:18
Speaker 1: and it was cool. And I ended up doing a
13:23
Speaker 1: lot of video. It's what I was doing in the
13:25
Speaker 1: late eighties. And we're talking analog editing on three quarter
13:29
Speaker 1: its videotape. And I saw an ad in a radio
13:35
Speaker 1: magazine that would hire radio talent and the ad was
13:39
Speaker 1: for videographer and it was for the station here. I thought, oh,
13:44
Speaker 1: I'll go find out what's going on, and so I
13:47
Speaker 1: went and met with the owner of the station and
13:50
Speaker 1: we talked about video and told me some of the
13:53
Speaker 1: things he wanted to do, and I was hired and
13:57
Speaker 1: it was. It was on a piece by piece basis.
14:00
Speaker 1: It was great. I would go ahead and he'd say, Okay,
14:02
Speaker 1: can you go over to Dwight's Auto Glass or here
14:05
Speaker 1: was out of family restaurant, and I would go in
14:07
Speaker 1: there and I would shoot videos and it was It
14:09
Speaker 1: was awesome. And the pay wasn't that great, sorry, boss,
14:13
Speaker 1: but it was still good because It kept me working
14:15
Speaker 1: and I was able to do other radio things as well,
14:18
Speaker 1: and we ended up doing tech talk radio just on
14:21
Speaker 1: the web at that point, and it was a lot
14:25
Speaker 1: of fun. And one day I was talking to our
14:27
Speaker 1: former program director here, Tom Lang, and we were I
14:31
Speaker 1: was videotaping an event for them over at Desertdemic Casino,
14:35
Speaker 1: and I told Tom, I said, boy, I miss radio,
14:38
Speaker 1: and he goes, wait, you did radio And I said yeah,
14:41
Speaker 1: and I said, did radio in Tucson, And he'd never
14:45
Speaker 1: heard of the show. I had done so much for
14:47
Speaker 1: our number one ratings, and he said, well, heck, if
14:51
Speaker 1: we ever have a part time position, you know, open
14:54
Speaker 1: up or a filling, you want to do it. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
14:57
Speaker 1: And that's how they found out A did radio, and
15:00
Speaker 1: I ended up doing radio here at this station. I've
15:03
Speaker 1: been with the station now since two thousand and nine.
15:07
Speaker 1: Brought tech Talk over here, I want to say about
15:09
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. It was something I always wanted to do,
15:12
Speaker 1: is bring it to the station, which just matter of
15:14
Speaker 1: having the right slot and the right spot. So I'm
15:16
Speaker 1: very appreciative for the owners letting us do this tech show,
15:19
Speaker 1: and I hope I do hope this helps some of
15:22
Speaker 1: you that when you run into a tech situation, we're
15:26
Speaker 1: able to do that for you. Now, I kind of
15:28
Speaker 1: strayed a little from the story, but you know how
15:31
Speaker 1: software as a service has changed things. We looked at
15:35
Speaker 1: QuickBooks and quick books. Yeah, it was great for a
15:38
Speaker 1: lot of us that just needed to do an invoice.
15:41
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest with you, I went ahead and
15:44
Speaker 1: I moved to the subscription model, and the sscerptions started
15:48
Speaker 1: off relatively inexpensive, but every year they added new features
15:54
Speaker 1: that I wasn't using, and the price continued to grow,
15:58
Speaker 1: and I find decided to opt out. When we got
16:03
Speaker 1: to I want to say, it was about I want
16:05
Speaker 1: to say, four hundred maybe five hundred dollars a year
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Speaker 1: to use the software. Oh yeah, So you might remember
16:12
Speaker 1: quick books, and you might remember when you could go
16:15
Speaker 1: into the computer store and it wasn't that much. Now
16:19
Speaker 1: you know you want a subscription to that, it's going
16:21
Speaker 1: to cost you a lot more. Now the engineers have
16:24
Speaker 1: done some more things, but as a small business, it
16:27
Speaker 1: may not be exactly what you really needed. We saw
16:30
Speaker 1: the same thing with Microsoft Microsoft Office. Might remember having
16:36
Speaker 1: Microsoft Office when you would go and you would buy
16:39
Speaker 1: Office two thousand and three, two thousand and four, and
16:42
Speaker 1: you would all buy that. You got Microsoft Word, you
16:45
Speaker 1: got Microsoft Excel, power Point, you got some of the
16:51
Speaker 1: other programs that came with that outlook, and it was great.
16:55
Speaker 1: But then they continued to innovate and you suddenly needed
16:59
Speaker 1: to buy a subscription to be able to use the
17:04
Speaker 1: Microsoft platform. Well, a lot of people hung on to
17:08
Speaker 1: using Microsoft Words, some of the older versions, and it
17:12
Speaker 1: can still be done. People are still doing it. Same
17:17
Speaker 1: goes with into It. As a matter of fact, I'll
17:18
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I still use into It the
17:22
Speaker 1: Quick Books twenty thirteen. It works for me. I'm not
17:26
Speaker 1: paying a subscription. It's the old one I had. They
17:30
Speaker 1: didn't do dirty pool by turning off their activation servers
17:33
Speaker 1: at least at the time when I installed it a
17:35
Speaker 1: few years back, and it worked for me, so that
17:39
Speaker 1: that worked out pretty good. Then you came across some
17:43
Speaker 1: companies that when you bought a software, you'd have to
17:46
Speaker 1: register it and activate it and you can have it
17:48
Speaker 1: on one computer, maybe two computers or four, or maybe
17:52
Speaker 1: you'd be able to use it on multiple computers, but
17:55
Speaker 1: never at the same time. So whenever you logged in
17:58
Speaker 1: to your program would send a log in to that company.
18:03
Speaker 1: And one of those companies that had done that in
18:06
Speaker 1: the past that you could buy the software direct to
18:08
Speaker 1: just buy it and use it forever was Adobe. And
18:13
Speaker 1: I had issues and I've talked about with Adobe because
18:16
Speaker 1: what I ran into is they turned off their activation servers.
18:20
Speaker 1: So say you had a program and in the radio business,
18:24
Speaker 1: Adobe Audition was one of the finest audio editing programs
18:28
Speaker 1: for just getting commercials made. You would do it for
18:32
Speaker 1: even podcasters could use it. And what happened is an
18:38
Speaker 1: Audition one point five and Audition three they turned off
18:43
Speaker 1: the activation servers. So what happens is to say you
18:46
Speaker 1: had to reinstall your computer and you didn't you uninstall it.
18:51
Speaker 1: You ran into these issues, and if your hard drive died,
18:55
Speaker 1: you had to reinstall. You didn't have a backup. You
18:58
Speaker 1: suddenly may not be able to use that program anymore,
19:00
Speaker 1: and you had to switch to software as a service
19:03
Speaker 1: and use their creative Cloud program. And that's what a
19:07
Speaker 1: lot of people had to do. Well, we know that
19:10
Speaker 1: October coming up is going to be the big Microsoft
19:15
Speaker 1: change from Windows ten to Windows eleven. And I know
19:18
Speaker 1: a lot of you are on Windows ten and your
19:21
Speaker 1: computers may up qualified to upgrade to Windows eleven. It's
19:25
Speaker 1: a couple of things you need. Ed Bot over at
19:27
Speaker 1: zd net put together a great article about that. I
19:30
Speaker 1: recommend taking a look again ed Bot Bott. You can
19:34
Speaker 1: do a Google search for that and zd net and
19:36
Speaker 1: just do Google search for upgrading to Windows eleven ed Bot,
19:40
Speaker 1: and he kind of breaks down the entire process for
19:44
Speaker 1: you and why maybe you're not able to or what
19:48
Speaker 1: you need to do to make it possible. Don't know
19:51
Speaker 1: if Microsoft's going to change too much before that happens
19:55
Speaker 1: when it comes to the requirements, but it's going to
19:59
Speaker 1: cause a lot mayhem for a lot of people. I
20:02
Speaker 1: ended up deciding, okay, I needed to have Windows eleven
20:07
Speaker 1: in my studio, especially when suddenly my networking stopped working.
20:10
Speaker 1: And after one of the updates from Microsoft, I've since
20:14
Speaker 1: got it working, so I'm happy with that. But I thought, yeah,
20:18
Speaker 1: maybe it's time. So I went to PC parts Picker,
20:24
Speaker 1: which is a great website to go if you want
20:25
Speaker 1: to build your own computer. I decided, okay, I'm going
20:29
Speaker 1: to build a system, then I'm going to install Windows eleven.
20:32
Speaker 1: I ended up going to Stack Social, whis a great
20:36
Speaker 1: place to go find some of those software programs, although
20:40
Speaker 1: they've run into some of that software as a service
20:43
Speaker 1: issue with some other software that they were selling. And
20:47
Speaker 1: I got it installed and it was great out a
20:51
Speaker 1: Windows eleven machine running super fast, newer processor, newer than
20:56
Speaker 1: the Windows ted machine I had in the studio that
20:58
Speaker 1: had the Adobe Audition Creative Suite five point five on it,
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Speaker 1: and I loved it. Well. When I want to install
21:10
Speaker 1: the Creative Sweet five point five from Adobe, I could
21:13
Speaker 1: not install it anymore, said I had too many activations.
21:17
Speaker 1: I got in touch with a representative that was offshore
21:22
Speaker 1: for Adobe, and his exact thing for me was to
21:26
Speaker 1: tell me, oh, okay, uninstall it on your computer. Deactivate it,
21:33
Speaker 1: uninstall it and you'll be able to You should be
21:36
Speaker 1: able to use it on the new computer. Those words
21:40
Speaker 1: should should have been taken into account. Went ahead and
21:44
Speaker 1: did that. So here I took it off a computer
21:47
Speaker 1: that was working Windows ten. It was great. When to
21:50
Speaker 1: install it, too many activations. So when I called back,
21:55
Speaker 1: of course, I've got another tech support agent offshore told
22:00
Speaker 1: me he could give me a great deal on the
22:03
Speaker 1: Adobe Creative Cloud. And I said, I've got Adobe Creative Cloud,
22:08
Speaker 1: which I do courtesy of our friends at Adobe, and
22:11
Speaker 1: that expires this week, and I got a chance to
22:15
Speaker 1: look at it and that was that was kind of cool,
22:17
Speaker 1: and I'll get to that coming up. But I said, okay, well,
22:22
Speaker 1: I just you know, removed it to activate it. And
22:25
Speaker 1: he said, well, the problem is our activation server is
22:30
Speaker 1: no longer working. So this guy tells me to remove
22:34
Speaker 1: the software. I do, and it was working fine, and
22:39
Speaker 1: then when I got to reinstall it on the new computer,
22:42
Speaker 1: it won't install. There's nothing I can do, so PC
22:46
Speaker 1: mover won't do it. You know, There's nothing I could
22:50
Speaker 1: do on that case. So it was a little frustrating
22:55
Speaker 1: and I decided, okay, well, I'm just gonna have to
22:57
Speaker 1: stick with Creative Cloud. And I wasn't happy about it
23:00
Speaker 1: because Creative Cloud was at the time looks like it
23:03
Speaker 1: was going to cost me an investment of about six
23:05
Speaker 1: hundred and seven hundred dollars. It's a lot of money
23:08
Speaker 1: for software, and I started playing around with it. I
23:12
Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to learn it. In the meantime,
23:14
Speaker 1: I also installed a couple of other software programs, but
23:17
Speaker 1: I installed Adobe Creative Cloud on this new computer and
23:22
Speaker 1: I got sold it is an amazing software program. And
23:26
Speaker 1: I realized something. With software as a service, it's so
23:30
Speaker 1: easy for us to say, wait a minute, I bought
23:33
Speaker 1: this license, and this license was in a perpetual license.
23:38
Speaker 1: That meant I could use this software forever and it
23:41
Speaker 1: does exactly what I need. And that's true. But the
23:46
Speaker 1: problem is the innovation that takes place with some of
23:49
Speaker 1: these companies in the software. And I know that's probably
23:53
Speaker 1: not going over well with some but the innovation is
23:56
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. What they've been able to do with Premiere
23:59
Speaker 1: Pro now put together videos Premiere Pro with the new
24:05
Speaker 1: Generative Extend using AI features is pretty awesome. I tested
24:11
Speaker 1: it out. I needed five seconds extra for a video project.
24:15
Speaker 1: With Generative Extend, you have your video on the timeline
24:19
Speaker 1: and you say, gosh, I need five more seconds. You
24:23
Speaker 1: can highlight and tell it to a Generative Extend here
24:27
Speaker 1: and again. It can take it and turn it into
24:30
Speaker 1: whether it's a human being, a car, a sunrise. It
24:35
Speaker 1: can give you that extra five seconds. You can now
24:39
Speaker 1: caption your videos. You can also foreign language caption your
24:43
Speaker 1: videos with Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud. I was like, wow,
24:48
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing stuff. Photoshop with the generative fill again
24:55
Speaker 1: adding to a photo, making it faster for you to
24:59
Speaker 1: do your edit, giving you more control over those edits.
25:04
Speaker 1: That is pretty amazing as well, Adobe Audition giving you
25:08
Speaker 1: more features as well. But what really really blew me
25:12
Speaker 1: away this past week is playing around with Firefly Adobe
25:17
Speaker 1: Firefly and you could do the same thing and start
25:21
Speaker 1: testing it out where it takes. And again, we know
25:23
Speaker 1: a lot of us are not big fans of the
25:27
Speaker 1: term when it comes to the you know, the the
25:33
Speaker 1: AI artificial intelligence, but it can do some pretty amazing
25:36
Speaker 1: things there text to video. I want to create something
25:41
Speaker 1: that looks good. How about a sunrise over the cactus
25:45
Speaker 1: in the sweltering deserts of Tucson. It did it? Or
25:49
Speaker 1: a photo of an angry sun. It could be a
25:52
Speaker 1: graphic you want to use for a flyer. So if
25:55
Speaker 1: you are a professional, you may find that the Adobe
26:00
Speaker 1: Creative Cloud Pro may be just what you really need
26:04
Speaker 1: to use and you'll need. It's difficult to get out
26:07
Speaker 1: of the mindset, well, it did everything before that I
26:10
Speaker 1: needed and I don't need all this AI. Take a
26:14
Speaker 1: look at it. The unfortunate side is the price just
26:18
Speaker 1: went up in June. They're changing to the Adobe Creative
26:23
Speaker 1: Cloud Pro, which will again give everything, but it's adding
26:27
Speaker 1: about ten dollars a month to the program. You could
26:29
Speaker 1: still end up spending about eight hundred dollars a month.
26:32
Speaker 1: And you may have some features when it comes to
26:35
Speaker 1: the artificial intelligence, maybe not all, but it is something
26:41
Speaker 1: you may want to take a look at. There'll be
26:43
Speaker 1: another tier of service for the Creative Cloud. You could
26:46
Speaker 1: look at that as well. I don't know if and
26:49
Speaker 1: I've asked the reps at Adobe, could they just turn
26:52
Speaker 1: on the servers again, let people register their software that
26:55
Speaker 1: had to upgrade to Windows eleven that still will be
26:59
Speaker 1: fine using that. Don't know if that's gonna happen. I
27:03
Speaker 1: have to assume it's not. But give Adobe Creative Cloud
27:07
Speaker 1: a try. It's free trial for you to give it
27:09
Speaker 1: a look, but take the time to actually get into
27:12
Speaker 1: the program and use it and see if that maybe
27:14
Speaker 1: works for you. And again, I did some video samples
27:18
Speaker 1: on the segment for television this week. So when we
27:22
Speaker 1: want to think software as a service, it's just a
27:24
Speaker 1: way for them to get more money out of us. Yep,
27:26
Speaker 1: they are. It's fueling that innovation, paying for the engineers
27:30
Speaker 1: to do the creation of the software that can benefit
27:34
Speaker 1: us more so something to think about. And again you
27:38
Speaker 1: can find out more at Adobe dot com. Take a
27:40
Speaker 1: look at Firefly that's on there, and again try the
27:43
Speaker 1: trial version for that. We're gonna take quick break. We'll
27:46
Speaker 1: come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
27:49
Speaker 1: Find us on the web a tech talkRADIO dot com
27:53
Speaker 1: and now back to tech talk Radio. Always like to
27:57
Speaker 1: fill you in on software that you may want to
28:01
Speaker 1: be checking out and hardware that has some cool things
28:04
Speaker 1: that are a part of it. And one of them
28:06
Speaker 1: that I thought actually was really pretty meat that you
28:12
Speaker 1: may like is from a company called so Lease. And
28:15
Speaker 1: we've talked about so Lease before. If you have a
28:18
Speaker 1: smartphone that has a hot spot, you know what I'm
28:20
Speaker 1: talking about, that hot spot that gives you ability to
28:24
Speaker 1: access the World Wide Web from just about anywhere, which
28:28
Speaker 1: makes it nice. You could also use your smartphone as
28:32
Speaker 1: a hot spot so that your laptop can connect to it. Well.
28:36
Speaker 1: Solease or Simo has put together what they're calling the
28:40
Speaker 1: so lese Hub now here. Here's what it is, and
28:44
Speaker 1: I kind of like this. It's what they're calling a
28:47
Speaker 1: cutting edge home router featuring a four G LTE backup
28:54
Speaker 1: powered by Cemos Virtual sim technology. So imagine you may
29:00
Speaker 1: you have, you know, a cable service or you have
29:04
Speaker 1: a satellite service that's providing you with your your Internet
29:09
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it goes out and you're working on a project.
29:12
Speaker 1: You've got to get this project finished. You want to
29:14
Speaker 1: you know, get it all done well with this holeas hub.
29:18
Speaker 1: And again this is this is a hub that can
29:21
Speaker 1: you know, you could still power it off your your
29:23
Speaker 1: regular Internet service, but when it goes down, you've got
29:28
Speaker 1: that four G LTE backup powered by this virtual sim technology.
29:33
Speaker 1: It keeps homes connected during Internet outages, gives you uninterrupted
29:39
Speaker 1: connectivity when it's needed. And it looks just like a
29:43
Speaker 1: regular home router, which I love. So it does four
29:47
Speaker 1: G e LTE backup so it'll automatically switch to that
29:51
Speaker 1: four G LTE during the Internet outages. And can you
29:54
Speaker 1: give you download speeds up to three hundred megabits per
29:57
Speaker 1: second and even upload speeds well some of it us
30:00
Speaker 1: are saying, good, I get twenty megabits per second. It
30:03
Speaker 1: could give you upload speed spending where you're at about
30:05
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty megabits per second. Features, dull band
30:09
Speaker 1: Wi Fi six support, which means that like a router,
30:13
Speaker 1: it's you know, connected in your home and you'll be
30:16
Speaker 1: able to connect all your devices to this this router
30:19
Speaker 1: that is normally working off your regular you know, subscribe services,
30:23
Speaker 1: and then if those subscribe services go down, it switches
30:26
Speaker 1: to the four G l T E backup. It can
30:29
Speaker 1: do aight oh two doll eleven A A B, G N,
30:32
Speaker 1: A C or A X for that performance. Now here's
30:35
Speaker 1: what's really cool about it. Now, remember there is a
30:38
Speaker 1: subscription that will go with this, but the product itself
30:41
Speaker 1: you buy outright for one hundred and ninety nine bucks
30:44
Speaker 1: at least that's the pricing that they're looking at. Uh,
30:48
Speaker 1: it's available for purchase now. You can do CIMO dot
30:52
Speaker 1: com or dot co co that's s I m O
30:55
Speaker 1: dot Co. And then their plans that are available you
30:59
Speaker 1: could get. And remember you wouldn't be I don't think
31:01
Speaker 1: you would be using this all the time, right the
31:05
Speaker 1: ten gigabit per month plan from solease to the soleise hub.
31:10
Speaker 1: Remember it wouldn't be using it all the time. Only
31:12
Speaker 1: if you know your internet goes out. We're coming up
31:14
Speaker 1: on monsoon season, so that could happen ten gigabits per
31:18
Speaker 1: month for only seven dollars, and that doesn't seem too
31:22
Speaker 1: bad right now. If you don't use it, it doesn't
31:25
Speaker 1: roll over. But ten gigabits for seven. If you need
31:29
Speaker 1: the hot backup plan, which I'm not sure exactly what
31:33
Speaker 1: that is, you'd have to find out on the Solease
31:36
Speaker 1: website Simo dot co. That's ten gigabits per month for
31:40
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. I have a feeling that might be
31:43
Speaker 1: your you know, your smartphones, et cetera. The primary plan though,
31:47
Speaker 1: if you want to get that, that's one hundred gigabits
31:50
Speaker 1: per month. That's a lot, a lot of data for
31:54
Speaker 1: eighty nine dollars. So no matter what you're paying your
31:59
Speaker 1: cable provider. Now, for some they might say that's going
32:02
Speaker 1: to work out better for them, and then you would
32:04
Speaker 1: use I guess you would use that all the time anyway.
32:08
Speaker 1: That's something to think about. That is again from so Lease,
32:12
Speaker 1: it's Cimo Simo dot co. If you want to get
32:17
Speaker 1: more information about that product. Another one that I really
32:22
Speaker 1: like that has been announced from Epsin And if you've
32:26
Speaker 1: seen any of these segments I've done with the epsin
32:29
Speaker 1: fast they got the epsin fast Photo, which is does
32:34
Speaker 1: scanning photos very fast. I'm getting that and incorporating it
32:38
Speaker 1: into my desktop publishing and website business and we're doing
32:43
Speaker 1: digital scanning for people. But they've kind of gone in
32:46
Speaker 1: different areas. They also have the EPs and Rapid Receipts
32:49
Speaker 1: for you know, doing your receipts super fast. Well, now
32:53
Speaker 1: they've introduced the sure color F ten seventy and what
32:59
Speaker 1: this can do. And I got a friend that owns
33:02
Speaker 1: Aladdin Graphics, and Aladdin Graphics does they specialize in this,
33:07
Speaker 1: So I would still say contact them. But the shirt
33:10
Speaker 1: color F ten seventy can print directly onto shirts. The
33:15
Speaker 1: quality pretty impressive. So imagine you know, you're coaching a
33:19
Speaker 1: little league team here in Green Valley, Sabudita, or you
33:23
Speaker 1: get together with a company picnic and you want to
33:25
Speaker 1: everybody have the same shirts. You're celebrating the anniversary of
33:29
Speaker 1: your company, and you want to create your own shirts. Sure,
33:32
Speaker 1: you go out, you buy the shirts, and then you
33:34
Speaker 1: go ahead and you get them printed. You do the
33:36
Speaker 1: printing right with the sure Color F ten to seventy.
33:39
Speaker 1: You can look it up on the EPSOM website. But
33:42
Speaker 1: here is the downside of that. And that's when you
33:45
Speaker 1: might want to pick up the phone and call Troy
33:47
Speaker 1: over at Aladdin Graphics. It will cost you about seventy
33:51
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks to buy this printer. Now, some might say, well,
33:56
Speaker 1: I'm a little entrepreneur. I could start doing my own
33:59
Speaker 1: T shirt. That's something you can think about. Got to
34:02
Speaker 1: take in project cost, how you're going to get that business,
34:05
Speaker 1: et cetera. But epsom doing this so that people that
34:08
Speaker 1: want to have full control over their printing process, or
34:11
Speaker 1: again want to make their own shirts, they could do that.
34:14
Speaker 1: But again, that's the sure color F ten seventy and
34:20
Speaker 1: you'd be able to find that there. Let me tell
34:22
Speaker 1: you about another product. Here we go, all right, not
34:27
Speaker 1: long ago on television, I showed the Palm, and some
34:31
Speaker 1: people said, whatever happened to the Palm? They got bought
34:34
Speaker 1: by HP and that kind of Yeah, that was kind
34:37
Speaker 1: of the end of that, right. Well, I had the
34:40
Speaker 1: old Palm you might remember the Palm Pilot or the
34:43
Speaker 1: Trio or the you know, the Palm smartphone, and I
34:48
Speaker 1: ended up finding it and I you remembered, how you know,
34:52
Speaker 1: when you text with the Palm, how easy it was.
34:56
Speaker 1: You didn't have that on screen keyboard. Some of you
35:00
Speaker 1: really hate that the Android or the iPhone on screen keyboard. Well,
35:05
Speaker 1: the Pompilot or the Trio, you had actually keys. People
35:10
Speaker 1: love that and you wanted to maybe switch to numbers.
35:13
Speaker 1: You hit one button and you could do that, and
35:16
Speaker 1: you could text with it very easily. Fit right in
35:19
Speaker 1: the palm of your hands. You still had a nice
35:21
Speaker 1: screen on. It wasn't as nice as the screen to
35:23
Speaker 1: get now with the Androids like the Pixel nine or
35:26
Speaker 1: the latest iPhone or even the Samsung Galaxy devices, but
35:33
Speaker 1: it was cool to be able to have those keys. Well,
35:35
Speaker 1: you can have those keys with the Clicks keyboard cases.
35:39
Speaker 1: And if you've scrolled on the web and you've looked
35:42
Speaker 1: for a placement phone, if you looked for mobile keyboards,
35:46
Speaker 1: you probably have been fed in ad with the Clicks keyboard.
35:52
Speaker 1: Now how it works, It's basically just looks just like
35:56
Speaker 1: this keyboard, maybe a little bigger on the keys. Uh.
36:01
Speaker 1: And it works with the Google nine, Pixel nine, Galaxy
36:04
Speaker 1: S twenty five, motorole Eraser Plus. It doesn't look like
36:09
Speaker 1: it's available on the pro XL yet. I don't know
36:11
Speaker 1: if that could could have changed by press time, But
36:14
Speaker 1: if you want to see these and you want to
36:17
Speaker 1: actually use a keyboard, I would really recommend jumping onto
36:21
Speaker 1: the World Wide Web and going to clicks dot tech
36:25
Speaker 1: that clicks dot T e c H at c l
36:29
Speaker 1: I c k s dot T e c H and
36:32
Speaker 1: your phone actually plugs in, like kind of snaps in
36:36
Speaker 1: to this device which holds your phone. Uh has I
36:41
Speaker 1: believe it has the wireless on the back, so you could,
36:44
Speaker 1: you know, smart charge it. You can, then you then
36:48
Speaker 1: have a physical keyboard for your smartphone. So if you've
36:53
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where you're just fed up with
36:57
Speaker 1: that keyboard, I'm one of those. I use voice to
37:01
Speaker 1: text quite a bit and it always gets it wrong.
37:04
Speaker 1: But again, if you are fed up that and you
37:06
Speaker 1: want to actually have a physical keyboard, you might want
37:08
Speaker 1: to take a look at that they sell. They're not
37:10
Speaker 1: inexpensive though. While you could go out and buy a
37:14
Speaker 1: Logitech K four eighty for right around fifty bucks, this
37:20
Speaker 1: sells for up around one hundred and thirty nine dollars.
37:23
Speaker 1: But again, it plugs into your phone, plugs right into it,
37:27
Speaker 1: and you can carry it around that way. So again
37:29
Speaker 1: that might be something that you might want to think
37:31
Speaker 1: about doing. One hundred and thirty nine dollars clicks dot teh.
37:37
Speaker 1: You can get more information there about this device. And
37:41
Speaker 1: again you may you may like that. All right. Top
37:46
Speaker 1: ten passwords used in the United States have been revealed.
37:51
Speaker 1: And I'm not looking at you, but if you use this,
37:54
Speaker 1: you want to stop using it immediately. According to a
38:00
Speaker 1: study that was put together by I want to say
38:04
Speaker 1: this was malward? Was this malword? Bites? Well? Here here
38:08
Speaker 1: it is. The second most common password in the US
38:13
Speaker 1: is one two three four five six. That is ranked
38:19
Speaker 1: the most number one common password in the world. I
38:23
Speaker 1: know they're a pain in the butt. I know you
38:25
Speaker 1: have so many different logins, whether it be a company
38:29
Speaker 1: you do business with or you know, logging into pay
38:33
Speaker 1: your smartphone bill, your bank account, you know the whole bit.
38:37
Speaker 1: It could be a pain in the butt. One two
38:40
Speaker 1: three four five six people are using that. That's the
38:43
Speaker 1: most common password in the US and the number one
38:47
Speaker 1: common password in the world. The easy to guess passwords
38:51
Speaker 1: at ranked from third, fourth and fifth. The most common
38:54
Speaker 1: in America are password. The next one is quirdy q
39:01
Speaker 1: W e r t y one two three. And if
39:04
Speaker 1: you're wondering where that comes from, quirdy was once used
39:08
Speaker 1: as a demonstration on your username and password. Somebody said,
39:14
Speaker 1: I'll use that as my password. Not good. Quirdy is
39:18
Speaker 1: the top line next to the tab on your general
39:20
Speaker 1: most keyboards q w e r T y. Then one
39:23
Speaker 1: two three. Don't want to use that one as well.
39:26
Speaker 1: All right, that is the fourth most common password in America.
39:31
Speaker 1: The next one is quirdy number, and then just number
39:34
Speaker 1: one q W e r t Y one. So if
39:37
Speaker 1: you're wondering. Seventh and eighth on the list are one two, three, four, five,
39:44
Speaker 1: six seven eight nine. That's sixth. Seventh is password one again,
39:50
Speaker 1: don't use that. Then one two three, four, five sixty
39:53
Speaker 1: seven eight comes it at number eight, ninth and tenth
39:57
Speaker 1: on the most common passwords among Americans. Don't be writing
40:01
Speaker 1: these down and using these. Please don't. If you're using them,
40:04
Speaker 1: change them. They are one, two, three, four five, and
40:09
Speaker 1: then ABC one two three. Now the thing is, you
40:14
Speaker 1: may think, well, what does it matter? You know I'm
40:17
Speaker 1: using this, I'm the only one who knows the user name.
40:20
Speaker 1: People are phishing, which which basically means they're trying to
40:24
Speaker 1: find out your user name. You may accidentally give that up,
40:28
Speaker 1: and then once they have that It's all about finding
40:30
Speaker 1: out which past you're using. The number one most common
40:35
Speaker 1: password in the US. Do not use this. If you
40:38
Speaker 1: were using it, please change it is secret, sec R
40:43
Speaker 1: E T secret. Now here's what I'd recommend. Now you
40:47
Speaker 1: may say, well, what about those password managers that are
40:50
Speaker 1: a part of Google or even Microsoft Edge. I I
40:56
Speaker 1: have used those in the past, and I would say, don't.
41:01
Speaker 1: Somebody can get onto your browser if you're logged in,
41:04
Speaker 1: and they can figure out those passwords, see them very quickly,
41:07
Speaker 1: take screenshots. What I honestly recommend is a product called
41:13
Speaker 1: one Password one the number one password. You don't want
41:16
Speaker 1: to use that one either one password, but use the
41:19
Speaker 1: software program you set it up. You have a secret
41:24
Speaker 1: code to get in and then there are all your passwords.
41:28
Speaker 1: Anytime you want to create a password, you could create
41:31
Speaker 1: a super long password that within your browser it will
41:35
Speaker 1: remember it. Within your smartphone it can remember it. And
41:39
Speaker 1: you want to use difficult passwords, longer passwords to hack,
41:42
Speaker 1: longer passwords for somebody to try and crack. And again
41:47
Speaker 1: you can add this to your safe deposit box. So
41:50
Speaker 1: in case of medical emergency and you don't have access
41:53
Speaker 1: to your devices, somebody else does, they'll still be able
41:56
Speaker 1: to access that with that long secret code that you
42:00
Speaker 1: would be given one password. The software program itself not
42:04
Speaker 1: very expensive, I want to say under fifty bucks, might
42:07
Speaker 1: be like thirty nine dollars, but I'd really recommend installing that.
42:11
Speaker 1: You could install it on all the browsers you use,
42:14
Speaker 1: and it's a great way to maintain and secure your password.
42:17
Speaker 1: So don't fall into that trap of just one, two,
42:20
Speaker 1: three ABC secure your password? Are you going to take
42:24
Speaker 1: another quick break? We come back with more of tech
42:27
Speaker 1: Talk Radio, hopefully providing some great information for you on
42:30
Speaker 1: this Saturday afternoon. Thanks for listening. Now back to TIEF
42:34
Speaker 1: Talk Radio. After I decided I needed to take a
42:37
Speaker 1: look at some different software programs that may enable me
42:40
Speaker 1: the opportunity to create after I found out that my
42:45
Speaker 1: we Creative Suite was no longer going to be able
42:48
Speaker 1: to work because I wasn't able to install it on
42:51
Speaker 1: the computer that I had up dated to Windows eleven,
42:55
Speaker 1: and I sort of looking for other programs to do tasks.
42:59
Speaker 1: Now we've mentioned it before, Sean told us about Alternative
43:03
Speaker 1: two and you can go to on the Worldwide Web
43:05
Speaker 1: Alternative t O dot net and what you do is
43:10
Speaker 1: you enter the program name that maybe you're using, and
43:14
Speaker 1: it will suggest some alternatives for you. So that way,
43:18
Speaker 1: if you know, used to using one program to get
43:21
Speaker 1: something done, like maybe you used Photoshop Express or Photoshop
43:26
Speaker 1: or even some of the other program Correl that used
43:29
Speaker 1: to use the Correll photopaint program, and you want to
43:32
Speaker 1: use something else, well, you can type that in Gimp
43:36
Speaker 1: may come up. People still use Gimp. They love Gimp.
43:39
Speaker 1: It's an alternative too, that program. And so I ended
43:45
Speaker 1: up just asking a couple of my friends that work
43:48
Speaker 1: in the biz, and it was kind of interesting for
43:53
Speaker 1: you know, radio. For me, it's always been Adobe Audition.
43:57
Speaker 1: There is a program that I know of that's available
43:59
Speaker 1: out there if you want to maybe you want to
44:01
Speaker 1: create your own podcast and you would like to do stuff.
44:03
Speaker 1: It's called Audacity. And again you'll find that available on
44:08
Speaker 1: alternative to dot net, at least the link for that.
44:11
Speaker 1: Make sure when you're getting software programs, you're getting it
44:13
Speaker 1: from the authentic, authorized website. Got to be real careful
44:17
Speaker 1: because fakes can be set up pretty easily that could
44:21
Speaker 1: actually hurt your system. So Audacity is good. There's some
44:27
Speaker 1: neat features on it. It's a matter of learning the
44:31
Speaker 1: program and how it works differently than a w audition,
44:34
Speaker 1: like when you export a project us export in the
44:39
Speaker 1: file itself. I've had some people who have used Audacity
44:43
Speaker 1: that send me a file and that file is still
44:46
Speaker 1: in the Audacity format, so you know you're setting it
44:48
Speaker 1: as a wave or an MP three that type of
44:51
Speaker 1: that type of situation there. So again Audacity is pretty good.
44:54
Speaker 1: But I did use a couple of programs that I
44:56
Speaker 1: wanted to just give kind of the heads up of
44:58
Speaker 1: the programs that I used. First off is a program
45:02
Speaker 1: called Reaper r e a p e R. Now it's
45:06
Speaker 1: not a free program. It is a paid program. They'll
45:09
Speaker 1: give you a sixty day trial window to use it.
45:12
Speaker 1: But the cost to acquire the Reaper program on your system,
45:18
Speaker 1: which can be installed on two systems not at the
45:21
Speaker 1: same time, is I want to say, around about seventy dollars.
45:26
Speaker 1: But it will allow you to edit audio, which actually
45:32
Speaker 1: I really got used to using the Reaper program. I
45:34
Speaker 1: liked it. It has some great features, great you know,
45:39
Speaker 1: great easy editing tools that are a part of it.
45:42
Speaker 1: And again that's r e a p e R. You
45:46
Speaker 1: can download it, give it a try for sixty days
45:49
Speaker 1: and see if you like it and see if that's
45:50
Speaker 1: something that you might want to use the other program
45:56
Speaker 1: that I used for that, and I ended up stumbling
45:59
Speaker 1: across this. So I have a small mini mixer that
46:03
Speaker 1: I use when I do videos or when I'm doing
46:06
Speaker 1: the podcast training sessions. I've taken it out with me
46:10
Speaker 1: so that way the kids on the reservation that's where
46:13
Speaker 1: I went last week, they end up being able to
46:18
Speaker 1: talk into the microphones and I give them kind of
46:20
Speaker 1: an overall about podcasting and how cool it is and
46:24
Speaker 1: it's always a lot of fun knowledge and learning as
46:26
Speaker 1: a group that put that together. John Proudstar is a
46:29
Speaker 1: local artist and actor and he was out there as well,
46:34
Speaker 1: so it was pretty cool. But I buy the Macki product,
46:39
Speaker 1: and there's other I know there's other mixers on the
46:41
Speaker 1: market and mixers. What that is is it takes your
46:44
Speaker 1: audio input, so you have one mixer one microphone, right,
46:49
Speaker 1: and then maybe you have another audio input, so you
46:52
Speaker 1: put two microphones so you can do a discussion with
46:56
Speaker 1: the both microphones and use the mixer to bring that
46:58
Speaker 1: all down into one audio file. And Maki makes a
47:02
Speaker 1: whole bunch of them. I previously used the MACI fourteen
47:06
Speaker 1: oh two VLZ which was a multi channel mixer and
47:11
Speaker 1: it was great, but it would plug in to the
47:14
Speaker 1: computer using a scarlet box by focus right, or I
47:19
Speaker 1: would have the Creative Labs external sound card and would
47:23
Speaker 1: plug into that which would plug into the computer. It
47:26
Speaker 1: was nice, but again just more cables laying around. What
47:29
Speaker 1: I like about the one that I used for MACI
47:31
Speaker 1: the pro FX six x three. It actually connects via
47:38
Speaker 1: USB so you can record, you know, two microphones. You
47:42
Speaker 1: could have another source as well for line in or
47:46
Speaker 1: you could do you know, upgrade your your mixer, the
47:48
Speaker 1: Pro eight, the Pro ten do you get more lines,
47:52
Speaker 1: more microphones depending on what you're doing. But and then
47:56
Speaker 1: it outputs via USB into the USB in and becomes
48:00
Speaker 1: a sound device on your computer, so that works out
48:04
Speaker 1: really good. You could even apply effects to it, the
48:07
Speaker 1: whole bit. And I bought mine some years ago and
48:10
Speaker 1: I've been using it. And the other day when I
48:13
Speaker 1: was putting everything together to head on out to the
48:17
Speaker 1: reservation over the Boys and Girls Club there in Levigne,
48:21
Speaker 1: I noticed on the box it said pro Tools. You
48:27
Speaker 1: got a license for pro tools that came with the mixer,
48:31
Speaker 1: and it was pro Tools version Pro. There's different levels,
48:34
Speaker 1: but I thought let's try that. So I installed it
48:39
Speaker 1: on the computer and it is amazing. I used it
48:42
Speaker 1: one time in a broadcast environment, not here, but in
48:45
Speaker 1: another one, and I wasn't a big fan of it
48:47
Speaker 1: because I didn't understand it. I didn't have the time
48:50
Speaker 1: to go through it. But I've had the time to
48:51
Speaker 1: sit and play and really kind of experiment and learn.
48:56
Speaker 1: There's lots of great videos online, but pro Tools really
49:00
Speaker 1: it kind of surprises me. So again, that is one
49:03
Speaker 1: that's going on my new computer. Even though it looks
49:07
Speaker 1: like I am going to bite the bullet and do
49:09
Speaker 1: the Creative Cloud Pro, I will have this on another
49:12
Speaker 1: computer and pro Tools for some basic editing and I
49:17
Speaker 1: if you want to experiment, you want to play around
49:21
Speaker 1: with some of this editing with audio and put together
49:26
Speaker 1: a podcast, I recommend that now. I also showed some
49:29
Speaker 1: products from Fuffine Fi Fi n E and not long ago,
49:36
Speaker 1: I bought a microphone from fuf Fine from the super
49:41
Speaker 1: sale bin store of course that we have here in
49:43
Speaker 1: Green Valley Sawaudita and it was a great deal. I
49:47
Speaker 1: got it for I want to say it was a
49:48
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars day, so it was the opening day, but
49:51
Speaker 1: I ended up getting this microphone and I love it.
49:54
Speaker 1: I've since bought a mixer that they put out from
49:59
Speaker 1: fuf Fine. It is not bad, but there is something
50:04
Speaker 1: you need to know about that. And then the fuf
50:06
Speaker 1: Fine am A microphone. The Fine am A microphone can
50:11
Speaker 1: plug in via USB or USB C, or it can
50:16
Speaker 1: plug in an XLR, which could be very helpful depending
50:19
Speaker 1: on the mixer you're plugging it into. If you're using
50:22
Speaker 1: a mixer. Uh. The mixer that for Fine put out
50:27
Speaker 1: unfortunately has one input. That's it. And I would say, man,
50:31
Speaker 1: don't waste your time. If you're gonna get a mixer,
50:33
Speaker 1: get at least one that has two audio inputs. For microphones,
50:39
Speaker 1: I would recommend that, and that's why I recommend the
50:41
Speaker 1: pro FX six x three by mac E M A
50:45
Speaker 1: C K I E. You can find more information about
50:48
Speaker 1: that online. Uh, and not waste the time with the
50:52
Speaker 1: fuf Fine mixer. But their Fine microphone. The pickup quality
50:55
Speaker 1: that it is not bad. It's RGB, so if you're
50:58
Speaker 1: doing video that goes along with your audio, it looks
51:00
Speaker 1: pretty smart. I mean, it's got a nice color to it,
51:03
Speaker 1: and the audio pickup on it is pretty good as well.
51:06
Speaker 1: So again you can find those fine Fi Fi n E.
51:10
Speaker 1: There is a better I will say, there is a
51:12
Speaker 1: better microphone that's available on the market. Most radio broadcasters
51:16
Speaker 1: you'll see them and even in podcasters you'll see them
51:19
Speaker 1: using the SM seven B microphone. It's a pretty pricey microphone,
51:25
Speaker 1: runs about three hundred and fifty four hundred dollars. You
51:28
Speaker 1: may even be a little higher than that. That microphone's
51:31
Speaker 1: got great pickups. So what I'm using right now and
51:33
Speaker 1: it's good, but they have a better one out now
51:36
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping to get my hands on one to
51:37
Speaker 1: try it out. It's the Sure SM seven dB. And
51:42
Speaker 1: what they basically take in is Cloudlifter, which is a
51:45
Speaker 1: great device which gives a little more oomph, a little
51:48
Speaker 1: more power to the audio chain. It's kind of built
51:52
Speaker 1: in so you get this really dynamic sound and podcasters
51:58
Speaker 1: radio broadcasters are so again that's the Sure SM seven D.
52:04
Speaker 1: Be all right, I got to take a quick break.
52:05
Speaker 1: We come back with more of tech talk Radio, I
52:08
Speaker 1: mean Detaylor find us of the web at tech talk
52:10
Speaker 1: radio dot com. We'll be right back and now back
52:14
Speaker 1: to tech talk Radio. This is Stephen right you know,
52:16
Speaker 1: listening to tech talk radio. Yeah, some alung that line. Yeah,
52:22
Speaker 1: I guess that was it. All right, let's go with it.
52:28
Speaker 1: I love it. I'll say it anyway. All right, this
52:32
Speaker 1: is Stephen Wright and you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
52:35
Speaker 1: But you know, I've already been saying that this is
52:41
Speaker 1: the time of the show that we'd like to share
52:43
Speaker 1: with you a cool website of the week. Sometimes it's
52:46
Speaker 1: a product of the week, and I decided I wanted
52:49
Speaker 1: to come up with a website that you could enjoy
52:53
Speaker 1: when this show is over, we're back to your familiar
52:57
Speaker 1: favorites that you could actually have some fun with and
53:01
Speaker 1: and tell your friends about. So there are lots of
53:04
Speaker 1: great websites that are out there. There are that you
53:08
Speaker 1: can have some fun with. We've talked about some of
53:10
Speaker 1: those in the past, like the Lazy Fly, which I
53:13
Speaker 1: think is a good one. But here's one that is
53:16
Speaker 1: just a collection of just websites that you can you
53:20
Speaker 1: can find you go to the useless web dot com.
53:26
Speaker 1: The uselessweb dot com and it's gonna be different forever
53:31
Speaker 1: just about everybody. But I'm gonna go here and you'll
53:33
Speaker 1: you'll say, take me to another useless website. Please, So
53:37
Speaker 1: once you're there, you hit please and like for me,
53:42
Speaker 1: it came up with sliding toys a daily puzzle. It
53:45
Speaker 1: has the date, shows that how many people have done
53:48
Speaker 1: that and that whole bit, so you could do that.
53:50
Speaker 1: One you don't like it, go to another one, the
53:53
Speaker 1: long Dodge challenge your doge, thank you and it just okay,
54:02
Speaker 1: there you go. You could print it again, useless website,
54:06
Speaker 1: go to another one. Always judge a book by its covers.
54:10
Speaker 1: Some books went awards, others some win our heart and
54:13
Speaker 1: others only serve to confuse. This book, it's an actual book,
54:19
Speaker 1: how to talk to your cat about gun safety. And
54:22
Speaker 1: again you could find the link. You could actually listen
54:27
Speaker 1: to some of the book on audible. Another book that
54:31
Speaker 1: they have Outwitting Squirrels, more than one million squirrels outwitted.
54:35
Speaker 1: Here's another book, how to survive a garden gnome attack.
54:40
Speaker 1: Eating people is wrong, Crafting with cat hair, Cute handicrafts
54:46
Speaker 1: to make with your cat. And then one that I've
54:49
Speaker 1: actually heard of, this book and I saw this in there.
54:53
Speaker 1: It's called Florida Man. And for any of you from Florida,
54:56
Speaker 1: I apologize here. But what is some of the crazy
54:59
Speaker 1: stories that always start off with a Florida man and
55:03
Speaker 1: then you go on from there and again. You can
55:05
Speaker 1: find it at the uselessweb dot com. Have some fun
55:10
Speaker 1: with that. Let me know what you come up with.
55:12
Speaker 1: Just drop me a line, Andy atech Talk radio dot com.
55:15
Speaker 1: In the meantime, have yourselves a wonderful weekend Memorial Day weekend.
55:18
Speaker 1: Thanks for all that have paid the ultimate sacrifice. They're
55:22
Speaker 1: in our hearts this weekend. I'm Andy Taylor,