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Episode 374 - Tossing Axes with the Kids! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio network, where the cable
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guy and you're listening to tech talk Radio. Welcome to another episode of tech
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Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda, Weird Dan, I'm Slick.
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Thank you for joining us. We've got a lot to talk about in
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the world of tech. We've got some cool products to feature. If you
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haven't caught last week's video of the first ten minutes of the show where we
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talked about mid Journey and ais available for you to watch, including the picture
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samples, which we didn't get up by showtime, but you could certainly watch
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it now and listen to the segment again. With the different creations that Justin
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did with mid Journey and it's I mean, it's pretty amazing stuff. I
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had a couple of people who had no idea that it could do stuff that
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realistic, that photo realistic, the pumpkin spice ones. No, but the
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three guys doing the Tech show kind of we're kind of surprising, I'll be
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honest with I was kind of blown away by that it looked that good.
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Even though that's not us, so it's still create it's still creepy. It
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really is. I mean, it's creepy that it's not a real person,
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that it's a bits and pieces of different people and you know, the eyes
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and everything, and there's gotta be think about it. If you ever run
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into your doppelganger, somebody that looks like you, Yeah, I think I
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think everybody's got a doppelganger, right, It's got somebody that looks kind of
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like them. And then you get that whatever they call the matrical facts dejav
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with that type of thing. Right, So everybody's got somebody that looks like
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them or somebody that they think looks like them. Sean, I think kind
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of looks a little like the kid from Two and a half Men, like
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grown up? Now, have you ever got that? No? Why not?
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No? No, I've never That's that's something I've been associated with.
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But yeah, slick, have you ever been mistaken for somebody? Yes?
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Who's that? I'll never forget it? And this was I mean, this
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is way out feel for everyone, right, But Gil Scott Iran, Gil
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Scott Iran, who is that jazz musician? Really? Yeah? And you
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I this was back before the Internet when I was first told about this,
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right, this is I'm gonna say late seventies early eighties, and uh so
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I'm digging around trying to go to the library trying to find a picture of
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this guy, and I see one, and yeah, I do well I
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did. Let me put it away. Yes, I did look absolutely like
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Gil Scott Ran. Now I'm gonna have to look the guy up. I
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think Sean's doing that right now. He says that the revolution will not be
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televised. The revolution will not be televised. And what kind of music is
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jazz? Yeah, like the new fusion jazz. Yeah. Actually I did
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try to listen to some of his stuff, but sorry, man, a
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little bit, I would say, yes, currently still oh wow, yeah
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he just pulled it up on the screen. Yea. Yeah, I keep
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kind of I keep kind of see that. Yeah. Yeah. There there
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is an actor as well that I remember one day. Oh my gosh,
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he does look like you Slick. Really, I knew slick when his hair
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was that color. Yeah, but you know, but but you can you
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can say that slightly only because it started to change great when I was sixteen.
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No, he did it A little spot, A little spot radio started
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and it's and it's spread out that way. We made a trip one day
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and there's a video up on our YouTube page of taking Slick to the haircut
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to get a haircut. You remember that. Yeah, I was very unhappy
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that day. That was a lot of fun I have. Actually, when
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I used to round glasses and had a little different physique, I would get
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mistaken for John Landis, which is great because he's one of my favorite directors,
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you know, Guy Kentucky Fried Movie, Blues Brothers, so many different
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movies over the years. And uh, it really really made us open our
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eyes out when me and Mark and Mike, my friends, we actually drove
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onto the Universal lot. We drove to the gate, the guard looked at
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me and waved me on if we just drove our blue whimsy station wagon right
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there onto the parking lot. Park got out and went to the cafeteria.
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And that's when we realize, oh, wow, gee, I'm hoping I
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sense a road trip in our future. Not anymore, though I don't think
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so anymore. No, Sean said, you're much more better at that video
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compositing thing than I am editing and all, can you pull up a picture
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so we can compare Andy to Uh, oh, John Landis, let me
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let me google it here. So he's I think he's coming over there see
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Seawn's toys one day. I think he is a full grad. Yeah,
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Sean, uses you still use the A ten mini, don't you do?
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Yep, I've got one. I just never haven't hooked it up yet.
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I've got to actually hook up the cameras. There you go it he does.
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Look. Yeah, if you were the round glasses, yeah, this
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is a good one. This is what I had, the red glasses.
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Yeah. Oh wow, that is kind of scary. Here here an older
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picture. This is older. Yeah, definitely. Here's here's one that's the
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one from American Werewolf in London, and that's why I had a black Beard
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too. And we drove right onto the lot and it was pretty funny.
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But I said, it's a fund raising trip in our future to some Hollywood
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studios. Andy, that would be great, wouldn't it if you think about
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it. John Landis was here in Tucson. He also filmed The Three Amigos.
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He was the director of that movie as well. All right, but
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enough of that. Tech Wise, Sean, you did something kind of cool
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over the weekend. And what we love about this is sometimes you've got to
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unleash the tech and let it go and you did something fun that was kind
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of non tech. Oh yeah, So you know, we always talked about
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technology on the show, and a lot of times it's just nice to not
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deal with technology. So we went camping. How do you do that?
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Not check email and not I mean josen were were only one bars us into
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your phone, only updates livery three or four hours, and then you get
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fifty emails at the same time. Do you get anxiety though? I mean
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like, no, I don't. I used to when I was younger.
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Yeah, when when I used to, I don't anymore. And so the
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story involves a little bit of hicdowgy because earlier this summer we went camping,
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probably I want to say, in June, and there were these this couple
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one or two sites over that was playing a yard game I'd never seen before.
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You know, you have lawn darts, you've got cornhole, you've got
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ladder ball, you've got all these these They were playing a portable version of
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axe throwing. It was a plastic target. Plastic target, right. I
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sent pictures to Andy, but I don't think he got the email yet.
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And you stand, you know, fifteen to twenty feet away and you throw
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these plastic axes in it and they sticks in the board and it was probably
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the most fun I've had in a long time, just playing a yard game
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with my family and we cha, you know, we made up some of
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our own rules and we probably spent six hours Sunday night just playing our version
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of ax throwing in the middle of the woods where we were camping. And
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it was awesome. This looks like a lot of fun. And we had
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set up we had set up a light on the tree. We had strapped
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an led light to the tree, so it cast over the whole playing area
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and we played until almost midnight. I think I've heard of cornhole. I've
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heard of lawn darts, even lawn bowling. I guess, you know here
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it's a little hard to do because we have rocks and the ball goes everywhere.
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But but never heard of axe throwing. We had I had never seen
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it before this summer, and I just I set it up early in the
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morning and then told told one of my cousins, was like, look,
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I've got this new game. They're like, oh, we left your games.
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And then all right, right, axe right? Can you go to
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a bar and you throw it? Right? But this is like a portable
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version of ax strowing that you can just set up in your yard. You
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don't have to go. And it's not real axes. Right. Are the
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axes weighted or I mean they are? I mean there, they have a
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little bit of a half to them, but they're not going to hurt somebody
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if you hit them with it. It's kind of cool. Now where do
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you get these? Because you know somebody listening might be going well, I
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tuned in to find out how to get my right. This is this is
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where the tech part picks in. Right right, I saw it, I
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got out my phone, googled it. Oh, Costco has them cart by
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ship is that my house? Two days later? You know, I had
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this weirdest experience the other day, Uh Google, I use Google Photos.
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I know a lot of people people do that, right, And I was
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looking at something and I don't know what. I don't know what I hit
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on my phone, but it suddenly to highlighted certain products that were in the
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picture and showed where they were available for sale, and I thought, well,
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that's kind of different. Again. I don't know what I did or
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if that's said automatically, but it even provided a link where you could buy
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them and the whole bit just using you know, photos dot Google dot com.
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I've been seeing ads for those Unreddit ads for that specifically on Reddit.
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First it was plants. They had a thing for plants. Do you take
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a picture of a plant? It would identify the plant and tell you where
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you could buy the plant or more about it. But then you started seeing
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it identify products and images and give you links to it. So also it
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just scans images and ads and all of a sudden it's like, hey,
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this cup was made by Herman Miller or whatever, this lawn chair was made
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by whatever. It's all just from an image. Yeah, and it's scans
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it and finds the best deal for you through Google Shopping, which I'm sure
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Google gets a piece of, you know, But the best deal for you
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it's going to be different for me. No. Why Why is that?
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Because pricing is different on the Internet. So if you go to a website
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based on your location, your pricing could very well be different than what mine
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is. Oh I see what you're saying. Yeah, not only based off
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your taxes are different, your location is different price, the demand in your
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area may be different. Variable pricing is all around you because I've noticed it
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when I've bought something and then gone back to buy the same thing again or
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recurring purchase and the price has either been different or Caitlyn has seen a different
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price the same day. Right. Is it true though that if you're shopping
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online and I've heard people say this that you need to like try different browser
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or you know, try It's like, if you're you're using your shopping with
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Google, maybe shop with Edge or some people said Firefox, because what happens
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is, you know, you might look at it and you'll see a price,
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and then you'll go somewhere else the price to be a little higher.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm say. It's like you're
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either getting a website that is selling you a promotional ad that is paid,
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so they might drop the price a little bit more, so you buy it
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from them, right because they're gonna get a cut. It's sneaky, but
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it works, right, there's a way to make the sale. That's that's
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kind of cool. Do you guys, I'm want to slick. Do you
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use photos that Google? You can do? Right? Do? But I
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haven't noticed that. I don't want to call it a feature do I because
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that kind of bothers me. If I've got a photo and Google photoshoo you've
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taken maybe exactly yeah, and it's recommending, Hey, you want to buy
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this. I don't want to. You know, that's a little that's a
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little too much help Google. Yeah, now you're getting Now I'm really concerned.
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Yeah, because that means there's some AI looking at your photo that is
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saying, well, wait a minute, we can help him buy this.
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Because I've done this before where I go to Costco or go to say MS
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or even you know, Walmart or whatever, and I'll see something and I'll
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go, oh, I may want to buy that. At some point I'll
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take a picture of it. And I don't know if other people do this
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the same kind of thing. Recently, I saw the I think it's uh
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Energizer puts it out and it's a power bank that can you know, run
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your devices. If you say you're out in a picnic the Sean, this
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would be great for you. You're out in a picnic and you want to
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plug a laptop in, you can actually power the laptop and it comes with
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solar panels. So and it was like nine ninety nine bucks and the same
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thing happened. It took a picture of it, and then suddenly I started
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seeing an ad and you know, my feeds for that same type of product.
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It's happened when I've looked at furniture or if I've looked at well,
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I'm you know, I'm going to take that fa course, the part one
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oh seven and I followed through and I got you know, Sean sent me
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the information on it, and then I was looking at one of the us
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offered online. Now my feet is full of those part one oh seven training
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programs, you know, and and it does that so it learns from your
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shopping. I had a listener that had asked me about using you know,
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Google Photos. She got herself a brand new Motorola device, which of course
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Android, and she has h you know, Google Google on it her photos.
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She takes pictures and it puts them to the cloud. The problem is
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she wanted to get photos, older photos from her computer and put them onto
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her device. She couldn't. I couldn't understand how do you do that?
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And actually it's pretty easy to do. So if you've got a Google account,
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so you log on to your Google account, Google Chrome and you're gonna
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see and in an upload button. So you say you go to uh photos,
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Uh, just go ahead and get Google dot com. Once you're there,
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you'll see your photos, but you'll see upload in the top right.
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You can upload from your computer a Google drive, you can transfer from services,
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you can back up from your computer. But if you want to,
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you know, get those older photos that maybe you don't have on your smartphone
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from your computer. That's what's kind of cool about it. You could do
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it that way. And that was the step that she was missing. Couldn't
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figure out how to do it. And then I said, once you get
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them on your phone, then you can you can text those, you can
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send those, you can share them again. But that's a good way to
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do it if you want to send it via text or you just want to
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have them on your device. Yeah, the easiest way. So I've come
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across this where I've I've I have a lot of my old Facebook images and
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stuff on my Google Photos because when I got rid of Facebook, I was
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able to transfer all of my images from Facebook directly into Google Google Photos.
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Yeah, you can do that one step, just downloading them right, Yeah,
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once one step. It just moves them right in from Facebook right straight
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into your Google which is great. But I wanted to get some back onto
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my phone. And you can have the Google Photos app on your phone,
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but then it's difficult to get them onto your device. So the easiest way
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to do that is to share the photo from your device, and it gives
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you the option to download it, so you share it. Who do you
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share it with? You don't have to share it, you just click the
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share It's hidden. It's kind of hidden, a hidden thing within the share
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function, like there's no download option, Like you're you're gonna look at it.
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I want to download this picture. You don't think sharing would be the
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way to get a download link for it, But you click the share function
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and then it says, how do you want to share it? You can
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download it to your device? Okay, all right, So that's the way
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you can get them quickly off of Google Photos on your device, or something
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from Google Drive, like if somebody shares you an image or a video and
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Google Drive, same thing. Yep. The other way that I have found
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that works out really good is the that I expand drive from sand disc that
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I just I love. You know, you plug you install the app on
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your smartphone. You just take your whether it be USBC or a lightning lightning
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jack for your iPhones, and you get two of them. You know,
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you get one, you know what, one one on each end. You
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just plug it in and it will download all your all your phone, all
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your photos right off your smartphone, and then you can plug it into your
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computer and vice versa. You can plug it into your computer. Uh,
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if you've got USBC or an adapter, you plug it into your computer and
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you can copy them all off onto the onto that drive, plug it into
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your phone and transfer them up to your phone. That's another way to do
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it. But you know, some people don't want to spend the money for
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these one hundred, nineteen hundred and twenty nine dollars depending on the capacity you
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get. But those the eye expand from from uh sand disc is really good.
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I really like those. There's the thing about the Android phones that I
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appreciate is most of them, if not all. And I say that because
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there's got there's some rarities out there. You know. I just put in
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a micro SD card and generally generally save everything I really want to that card,
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the good old micro SD cards. Yeah, yeah, what did Apple
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do? Is Apple. Never did they ever have those. I don't think
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they ever created they allowed for that. I mean, not the Microwest cards.
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But I know for the iPads you can get a lightning adapter to plug
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in a st card to read from right right. I don't know if that
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works with the iPhones or things for that, but I know the iPad you
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could take pictures on your digital camera and then copy them into photos via the
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SD card. That was pretty cool to have that with the Android because I
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remember I had a Samsung Galaxy device and I remember I loved it because yeah,
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you had you had that card in it. You can take the card
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out and with a reader. What's the best reader out there? Because I've
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had problems with readers. I've had some some readers that don't work or after
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a while they can actually cause corruption, at least in my luck that I've
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had. Yeah, I still got an off brand reader that gives me problems.
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I got. I got one on my desk at the office and the
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one I carry around. And they're weird, you know, sometimes they work.
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Yeah, Well it's like it's it's like you run into it. It's
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like do you for me specifically? I know a lot of people are multi
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platform users Windows at Mac. Sometimes you get one that works with once platform.
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Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you get one that doesn't, and then you
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you know, then you encounter when you transition into a new OS. Does
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it work with Windows seven? Does it work with Windows ten? Does it
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work with Windows eight? Does it work with Mac os? Does it with
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Mac OS ten point five? Work Os ten points six point five? So
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it's it's hard to always find one. But you know, typically any of
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your normal USB C or USB three card readers are going to be decent,
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right, but you and your baby was a cheap skate to always get the
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cheap one first and didn't work by way up. Yeah, but I always
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seem to get you always have different speeds now on your reader, on your
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SD cards too now and so they might have a problem reading some of the
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newer ones. You know, if you've got it, Oh yeah, you're
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you're not gonna be able to go and get a Gen one USB reader and
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expect to read a Class ten two hundred and fifty six gig eight meg read
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wright speed card. Right, it's well, I am until it doesn't work,
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until it explodes, and let's get all the magic smoke exactly. It
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was with the adapter, no luck. All right. So we were talking
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about your your axe throwing and the vibe, which I think is cool.
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How much did it end up costing you? And where did you find it?
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I think I got it at Costco and I think shipped to my house.
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It was somewhere just over sixty years close to seventy bucks maybe shipped.
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Yeah, it was that much fun. Oh man, it was. We
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played it for hours. Yeah, and we made up a couple of our
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own variants, you know, root you know, play variants, and you
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know, there were we were probably rotating teams of two. We probably had
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about six teams of two, and then we just kind of rotated in and
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out. We're playing each other and stuff, and yeah, I can imagine
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it's only a plastic axte just stand in front of the targets trying to tip
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out the way before didn't know. The big The big test though is kids.
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When you have kids, did you have anybody under the age of fifteen
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or sixteen? There they know they're really the age gap is like twenty five
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and then like three, So there's really okay. Yeah, because you at
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that age group sometimes it's really hard to introduce him into something that doesn't have
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a screen or doesn't you know, doesn't you have any kind of technology to
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score. Yeah, there were no There were definitely no teenagers, no tweens.
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I mean you had a couple of my cousins kids who were two three
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years old, Max, he's two. I mean did he through them?
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But not? Well, like he throws everything else. You never know where's
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going to throw duck everybody duck. Yeah, I just I see, I
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got a I got a visual of this as kid and diaper right holding an
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axe or the this toy ax let's just say a toy ax. Yes,
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is that a real ax? Yeah? That that wouldn't be a good thing.
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Yeah. That We were talking real quickly about how you know companies will
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change uh through different oss, whether it be hardware software. Uh, there
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was an announcement made this past week. Uh and I'm I'm kind of bummed
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at that because I was a big word perfect user used word Perfect, loved
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it. That of course moved to Microsoft word and then I found when I
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was hired by that the company and I did national radio across the country on
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you know, different radio stations. I would do all my show prep in
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Microsoft WordPad because it was easy, uh, copy paste into it, write
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stuff, save it. And I have about six years of information, music
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information, tidbits of lifestyle info, you know anything that tech info, all
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in word Pad, documents RTF. Microsoft is officially announced after twenty eight years,
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it's saying goodbye to word Pad. Uh so word Pad will no longer
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be included in any future updates. And you may get an update and it
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may take it away. And while in twenty twenty they said they were kind
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of stopping it, they still made it available. People could still use it.
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I still use it to this very day. When you have a word
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Pad or RTF that corrupts, it's no fun because the good luck finding anything.
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And I thought about switching over the word since I use word but it's
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gonna be going away, and they're recommending, okay, well, if you're
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gonna do text documents, use notepad, or if you're gonna use our tf
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you or docs, you want to just use Microsoft word which to me was
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always too clunky and too much to get into. But I kind of wonder
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if Microsoft is doing this because they want people to use word I will I'm
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going to approach. This just from my experience. Okay, I used to
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work directly for Microsoft for five years. I worked in their technical support division.
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Right. I answered calls about all kinds of stuff, A lot of
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stuff I didn't know about, it had to learn about. WordPad was one
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of them. So my surprise. So Notepad and WordPad, what was told
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to me at the time that I worked for Microsoft, were never intended as
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consumer products. Really, Notepad was to do whatever you need to do just
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in pure text. WordPad because even I thought, oh it's you know,
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it's a it's a cheap word problem whatever thing. Yeah, Nope, No,
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it was to test rich text format. Because I remember I did work
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on some calls. I did work on some issues, some cases where people
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were having problems with Microsoft word and part of my troubleshooting technique was to take
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their document and view it through WordPad to see what was rendering, what was
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not rendering, and then reverse it create something in WordPad, opening up a
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Microsoft word to see what was rendering and what was not rendering. Right.
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So, and I mean, if we go start looking for the official documentation
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from Microsoft, is a good chance some of the official documentation regarding WordPad will
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state that is is not an official Microsoft consumer product. Yeah, well,
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Sean, you had kind of a and we were talking about that there,
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and I guess, you know, the whole intern face really the office interface
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with Office three sixty five. While some people may not be huge fans of
25:06
it, you know, I was thinking about it. Okay, well,
25:08
you've got Word, you've got you know, Excel, you've got you know,
25:12
your your mail reader without look, So why not just have that on
25:15
the desktop open you're scheduling all of that. Maybe maybe it would make sense
25:19
just and I guess I can open my RTFs in Word and save them now
25:25
as doc x and do it that way, and that way I always have
25:29
a copy. It just seems so bulky, you know, And it was
25:33
just created more of a file. But then I was talking to one of
25:36
the guys here at the station. He said, well, think about this
25:37
way. If you want a voice, you know, you want to voice
25:41
dictate into it using Word, you'll be able to. Oh that's actually kind
25:45
of cool, because you know some of us don't want to type all the
25:48
time. We can actually voice dictate into it and we'd be able to use
25:52
it that way, so a little more powerful with Word. But Sean,
25:56
you you came up with an alternate. If somebody doesn't want to use you
26:00
know, go to word or they don't want to use a note pad pad
26:06
plus plus. Oh I love that product. Yeah no, no, Now
26:11
this was created by Microsoft. But I don't know too much about the program
26:14
itself. Uh, it's just another Nope, it's just another notepad. I
26:19
don't really know how to explain it. You just have to download and use
26:22
it. It's just it's much more than that, my friends is It's like
26:26
yeah, I mean I don't use it, probably for what it's designed for.
26:30
But it's just another notepad that's open source, it's free. It's yeah,
26:36
many many years ago when I stumbled across that, man, I just
26:38
fell in love because they had you could open multiple tabs in it. I
26:42
mean, you had a lot of plug ins. You could do a lot
26:45
of different things. I'm trying to remember one of the other things. I
26:48
there was a plug in and I use okay think but you can create tables,
26:51
you can create and it was I'm a big portable software guy. I
26:56
always love to run my portable software off for USB drives and just unplug it
27:00
and take it with me and just plug it somewhere else, the whole program,
27:03
right, not just the documents exactly. Yeah. Yeah, and that's
27:07
what what made me really fall in love with No No Pad plus plus and
27:11
the guy who's doing it. I mean, I haven't used it in a
27:15
while, uh, just because I've just been busy doing other things. So
27:18
I've I've got it. I've got it saved on different flash drives with different
27:22
notes. But the guy that does it, I mean, I just wonder
27:25
how he keeps he stays on top of this thing. He's still taking donations
27:29
and everything. Isn't he financial donations? Yeah, he's got us donate tab
27:33
on his page and and you know, and about him. But No Pad
27:40
plus plus. All right, we're gonna we gotta take a quick break.
27:42
We come back. If you're looking for alternate programs, and we've mentioned it
27:45
before, we're gonna we're gonna actually go over some of those when we come
27:49
back. You definitely want to check out that website. I'm Andy Taylor,
27:52
I'm Seandward Dad, I'm Slick, and you can find us on the web
27:56
at tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back now back to tip
28:00
talk Radio. We found out during the break that Slick has not heard of
28:07
Alternative two. Alternative It's one of my favorite websites. It's how I found
28:14
out about Gimp back in the day. Oh yeah, gimp is a photo
28:17
editor. It's how I've found about Cyberduck back in the day. Yep,
28:21
it is a website. You go to Alternative The word alternative t o dot
28:26
net. All right, Slick, you're gonna love this because, especially for
28:29
somebody who likes you, like the budget software that you know saves a few
28:33
bucks, but also can be used to find out what would be the best
28:37
in your situation. Sean has told us about Alternative two a couple of years
28:41
ago and still always some great fines on there. So the premise of this
28:45
is finding alternative resources for a product or software that you like, mostly software.
28:52
And since we just talked about WordPad, I went to Alternative two and
28:56
they have written a blog post about alternatives too WordPad. So you type in
29:00
a software that you have and it'll give you a list of open source alternatives
29:04
to that product. Open source, now, is that the same as shareware
29:10
or freeware? I mean with with some of the programs you find on Alternative
29:15
two. You know you'll found oh you use it for thirty days and then
29:19
you got to remove it. No open source, there are restrictions against what
29:26
you can and can't do, and it's it has to be for the betterment
29:30
of the community. An open source also means I have access to the source
29:34
code, okay, so I can do whatever I want with it, well,
29:37
whatever I want with it, but I can make my own mods or
29:41
make my own additions or whatever. This is also a pretty safe community alternative
29:45
too, because they kind of police it where they all test out the software
29:49
and they can tell you, hey, this stuff has been tested. You're
29:53
not going to be downloading something that's going to be bugged or have some malware
29:57
on it. Getting it right from good hubs a good place to go too.
30:00
So getting it riff from the source. I get that source. So
30:04
I got it, Yeah, very good. So I in word Pad and
30:11
the first thing that came up was Libra office. Oh, Libra open office.
30:15
Yeah, which is a great open office source. Google doxes is it
30:19
is an option? I didn't even think about that. Yeah, Microsoft word
30:23
Taypora, I never heard of that. Scrivener never heard of that either.
30:27
Focused writer Abbey word, notepad, and grid. There's a bunch I've had.
30:34
I've had people asked me before for a for an office solution. They
30:37
didn't want to spend the you know, ninety nine bucks a year for Microsoft
30:42
Office, so they'll go ahead, and you know what, what's a good
30:45
I forgot Libra. Open Office is phenomenal because it'll lets you do pretty much
30:51
everything you need to do in say Office. There's not all the bells and
30:56
whistles that you get with Office, but you could still get a lot of
30:59
stuff done with it. You've viewed I know, Slick, you've used it.
31:03
I have used it. It's on almost every machine I own. Yeah,
31:08
you can even do rtfls on that, Andy, I didn't you think
31:12
about that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you'll just jump straight to Microsoft
31:15
Work. What is it with you had these large corporations? Well, I'm
31:22
paying for it. I mean I've already paying for it because you know,
31:27
I had to have more than you know, two installs on it, so
31:30
I just went that route. But I never even thought about Open Office on
31:33
it. If you actually tried that, Sean, here's open Office. Yeah,
31:38
yeah, I've got it installed on my computer. It's my go to
31:41
my parents when they were like, I don't want to pay for Microsoft three
31:45
sixty five or whatever open office, mom downloaded. Yeah, it's just you.
31:51
I'm just the only one there. You know, it's and and you
31:53
know, at an enterprise level, right, sometimes it's just easier on mass
31:57
too, follow the trend and pick whatever it's used to right, right,
32:02
But if you go open office, you don't have to pay an absurd amount
32:07
of money to Google or to Microsoft or to whoever. Yeah. Now,
32:13
having said that, having said that, if you have money, some of
32:16
us get some of us poor broke. But if you have money, please
32:21
give them some money people. Yeah, for sure. You know, anytime
32:25
you downloaded the right, please give us a PayPal donation or a bitcoin or
32:30
whatever. Yeah. Even even Wikipedia asks for money, a couple of bucks
32:36
for a program that you will probably use a ton for convenience. You can
32:42
pitch them five or six blocks. What are some of the all right,
32:45
So say you're you're at the computer, you're at Alternative too, And what's
32:49
the website address our listeners that maybe you want to follow along they are looking
32:52
for a solution. What is that's it's the word alternative ALT E R N
32:58
A T I V e t O dot net. Okay, on the remember
33:06
the Acasso camera that I looked at, the action camera. I showed it
33:09
on television and you know, it was cool because you know, it has
33:13
two battery chargers. It's a lot cheaper than the Go Pro. There were
33:16
some people on one of the forums I was on and they were asking,
33:21
they say, well, now that I've got this and I've got this action
33:22
footage, how do I edit it? And you know, some people were
33:27
saying, well, get the Premiere Pro subscription, you know from Adobe,
33:30
which is great. But people if there's budget wise on the camera, that
33:35
might want to be budget wise on their software. If you were to do
33:37
video editing software on Alternative two, did you come up with anything? Well,
33:42
I would tell them right now. Da Vinci Resol Resolved, DaVinci Resolve
33:46
hundred percent. Get yourself a decent Windows based machine with a decent GPU in
33:52
it, and you are going to be set with da Vinci Resolved. The
33:55
non studio version is free, okay, so get it, use it,
34:01
learn it for free? Is it as And that's the first thing that came
34:06
up. What I typed in Premiere vid you resolved. That was the first
34:08
thing in alternative? Do they came up? Does you resolved? Get it?
34:14
Does it allow you to cut scenes? Does allow you to do wipes?
34:17
Dissolves? It is a it is a literal, full nonlinear editing platform.
34:23
Wow. Now you can go and buy the studio version and get all
34:27
the fancy color correction and the studio quality stuff. But it's free. Get
34:32
it. Yeah, very easy. It's very easy to learn, okay,
34:37
And it's a powerful tool. If you're at at all technically inclined and like
34:42
cutting together videos and photos, you were gonna have no problem learned jumping in
34:45
and learning resolve. What about it for audio? Okay? So I've people
34:52
have asked me this before, and I want to know if my what I
34:55
suggest to people who don't want to spend the money on a w audition in
35:00
or you know, Sony Sony software that they might want to use for that.
35:06
Uh. I've always said Audacity. Yeah, that's the number one,
35:10
number one. Yeah, yeah, that's again without even looking That's what I've
35:15
told people. Audacity. It's mind numbingly easy to use, right, Oh,
35:22
I'd go that far, But I mean I think it's easy. I
35:25
mean, it's like you should you should be able to understand it. But
35:29
radio background, right, I can understand it to a point. I even
35:32
I've even now downloaded a manual. I've got a full manual on it for
35:37
audacity. They have a manual. Yeah, there's a handbook. Man.
35:42
You know, I love handbooks. I love manuals. I love having them
35:45
available. So I could just look up something, because you know, I
35:46
don't can't forget this. Yeah, I look it up and boom, there
35:50
it is. But I mean, audacity is not hard. It's not difficult,
35:52
but it's not easy. I won't say that it's coming from radio background.
35:55
I can say that people not coming from a radio background, or or
36:00
working regular consistently with audio, it might take a few minutes. Yeah,
36:06
I don't know. I think it's really easy to use, and it works
36:08
really well for us to integrate it with especially when you can integrate multiple channels
36:13
from like a Dante to Dante source. You can do multi track recording with
36:15
it, so it works out really great for our platform. Somebody I once
36:20
recommended that if you have an older computer that you want to use just for
36:23
creativity, that and you don't put any other programs other than you know,
36:28
your operating system that sometimes some of these free programs can work out pretty good
36:31
and make your computer full function without you having to spend a ton of money
36:35
on them. I recommend that if you and and the specter or debatable.
36:40
So let's I'm gonna try and say safely, sixteen gigabytes are ram okay,
36:46
uboot too studio, oh a boot Now you see you're going in a whole
36:52
different direction there for people that. Yeah, that people that, but that's
36:55
on an older computer. Yeah, but a lot of people don't know how
36:59
to get a bootoo and they don't know how to install it. I know,
37:02
and we should say probably that a Bootoo studio is a full operating system
37:07
with a suite of applications, programs for video and audio, et cetera,
37:13
art, et cetera. It's been a while since I've installed in bootoo.
37:15
I'm about to. I've I've downloaded an image of a bootoo from a Bootoo
37:22
studio from a Bootoo, and I just need to burn it, if you
37:25
will, and flash it to a USB flash drive and then install it on
37:30
a machine. I've done it before. I just don't have one active right
37:34
now, and I just kept it as my I kept one one unit as
37:38
my my go to creative platform. One of the other questions that we get
37:43
asked a lot is antivirus programs. Does Alternative to offer VPN or annivirus in
37:51
that case where maybe somebody could be better protected, because you'll have people that
37:54
say, well, I've got AVG, or I've got a VAST or I've
37:57
got malware bytes, and you know, suddenly they've gone past the thirty days
38:01
and they get the nag screen that keeps popping up or they're no longer protected.
38:07
That can be a real challenge if people don't want to spend the money
38:08
out to you know, e set or a chronics, which is you know,
38:14
which is a great program, or even semantic. Yeah, I mean
38:17
I don't know if I would skimp on the security side of things. Yeah,
38:22
I don't know if I would. I mean, yeah, I trust
38:24
Alternative too to find me other softwares that are good, But I'm not sure
38:30
if I'm going to start downloading independent developed malware tools and stuff, right,
38:37
You're gonna have to kind of go with something's a little bit more industry standard
38:39
or industry trending. Right, So I typed in Norton and it brought me
38:45
malware bites is the first one clam and have harriss have heard of? Yeah,
38:52
a vass spybot searching destroy Oh my god, spy as Sky, which
38:57
is uh their own first key. I thought it was Casper Sky. I
39:06
like Casper Sky. I like it too. What is it actually, caper
39:12
Sky sounds like it was made Montana. I think it's Russian, isn't it,
39:16
Because all that makes sense. I did not think it was. I
39:20
don't know. Yeah, and there's a couple of the ones that I had
39:22
not heard of, but I mean he said, is in there AVG.
39:27
There's one that I used for for a good amount of time and a first
39:30
saw c Cleaner, Yeah clean. Yeah. So I quit using ce cleaner
39:36
after they had an internal hack. Oh yeah, and and somebody was able
39:40
to in their back end inject malware into an executable that so when you downloaded
39:46
it from their site, it came with the malware, right. So I
39:52
quit using sea Cleaner after that, just because I felt like that that was
39:55
a little too much, like you're supposed to be security. Somebody got in
40:00
got in your back door, that kind of tell you. So I feel
40:05
like a sea cleaner is at the bottom of my list for those syp but
40:08
the top one they recommended there was malware bytes, right, And I know,
40:12
yeah, you're using You've used the enterprise version of that too, and
40:15
you've been pretty happy with it. It is we That is what we have
40:20
at work. Also, it runs on all of our machines at work and
40:22
it runs great. But I use it here at home and I paid the
40:27
forty nine dollars a year or whatever it is or something to have it,
40:30
and it keeps you safe. I guess it now works. I haven't had
40:36
any major compromises on my machine. Who knows, that could be a Russian
40:38
bot farm for all I know. Now, some people with that cast fer
40:44
Sky software. Yea, the casper Sky I love that. With the malwarebytes,
40:51
I know that. You know. Somebody has asked before, well,
40:52
how do you know if your computer is infected or they have different issues?
40:59
And I have, Well, one way to do it is download mail road
41:01
Bytes onto a clean machine, onto a clean USB drive that's not been installed
41:07
in the machine in question, and run it that way. And that way
41:12
you can put it onto that infected laptop or computer and you can run a
41:17
scan and see if there's some issues there and sometimes it could be some pro
41:21
I've had in the past where you run that scan and it's like WHOA,
41:24
I've found a lot of problems on the system. So some to think about.
41:29
All Right, we gonna take another quick break. We come back.
41:30
A couple of cool products I showed on television, and I definitely want to
41:35
give you a look at one that's coming up on Monday that you'll be able
41:37
to see with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
41:42
de Weird did I am slick and you can find us on Twitter or x
41:46
at tech Talk Radio and now back to tech Talk Radio. So coming up
41:52
on Monday on campus be Fox eleven and I'm pretty excited I'm gonna be showing
41:57
something that is a good solution. Now, we've talked about George Devices for
42:01
backing up old hard drives SSDs. There's so many different ones out there and
42:07
so many different manufacturers, and SA Brent has been one that we've featured before
42:12
in the show. But the question has come up now with so many people
42:15
now being able to move to M two technology, I don't do you use
42:20
an M two drive in your systems? Sean, because I know you just
42:22
built one, right, I have one, and I have a slot for
42:24
a second if I don't want it. Yeah, I'm using both. I
42:28
have an Emptwo Black and an Emptwo Blue from Western Digital in my machine.
42:31
Are you using M two tech yet? I have? Yeah, I've got.
42:35
I've got mto tech in a few and a couple of machines. And
42:38
there's I guess there's there's something that's something new. Yeah it is, and
42:44
you know, a lot of people don't realize the benefit of it. You
42:45
know, with the older hard drives, there's spinny as we call them.
42:49
The Sean gave it the name spinning hard drive. What happens if you drop
42:52
it, bang it too hard or simply the mechanics of the drive can basically
42:57
fail. You have moving parts and that can render your drive useless. So
43:02
or you have a newer computer, it's got its seta, it doesn't have
43:06
the pins, so you know you've got then you've got this old drive laying
43:08
around. You still have data on it, maybe, so you access it
43:12
with a caddy. But the problem is is their caddies for M two's now
43:17
that people want to like, I've got a one terabyte. I want to
43:21
move up to a two Western Digital recently announced for a terabyte. So I
43:24
did some searching and I found a sub brent USB three point one M two
43:31
enclosure and I'm gonna be showing this along with a new M two. But
43:38
this is what's so cool about it is I'm gonna show it to the guys
43:42
here. Basically, it's a device that you can open up. Then you
43:46
can slide an M two drive into the enclosure, so that way, if
43:51
you have an old this is what's cool about it. It comes with across
43:53
a software, so you can clone an M two connected to a working computer
44:00
where you can upload the disk image and then put your new M two in
44:04
and actually make a clone from that onto a new M two. So maybe
44:08
you're just increasing it in size to you know, a two terabyte or four
44:13
terabyte, and you don't have those restrictions that you may have. Uh,
44:16
so you're able to do this just like you could with an SSD or even
44:21
with an older IDE drive. And it's it's actually really sturdy aluminium and get
44:30
hot, yeah they do. The newer M twos have heat sinks on them,
44:35
which is good. But this one from Sebrante. I think I've paid
44:38
it even it came Look at this. It even came with a screwdriver.
44:42
That's what I love about Sebrante. Oops and and uh oops, we're still
44:47
holding a screwdriver. Worry. You never want to hear the computer guys say.
44:52
Oops. I think I ended up paying maybe forty or fifty bucks for
44:58
this, But again, and it's a pathway for me to be able to
45:00
work with the M two technology, because that's been the big question. Let
45:05
me ask you this, the first time you ever put an M two drive
45:07
on a motherboard, did you feel like you were gonna break it? Yes?
45:10
Yeah, it's like a so how would you describ It's like a like
45:14
a memory springboard? Yeah? Or it was gonna fly right out. Yeah.
45:17
And when you put it, when you slide it it, you put
45:20
it in like a forty, you bend it down and then it's like,
45:22
oh, you better have the standoff ready to screw in, otherwise you left
45:27
the thing that I felt like it was gonna launch right out of the motherboard
45:29
like a spoon, or it launched the screw across the room. And good
45:31
luck finding those, they're really small. I'm glad I'm not the only one
45:35
that felt that way. Yeah. The other thing about M twos is you've
45:38
got to remember when your case, you get your case or you know,
45:43
maybe your packaging. It came with a computer you bought that has M too
45:45
on it. Uh, you're those little screws. They're very small and so
45:50
you know, plugs into a little slot on board. Again, you push
45:52
it down like it's gonna you know, springboard it, but you hold it
45:55
down. But you gotta have those little screws. Don't just throw them away
45:59
thinking I'll never use because those are what will hold that M two into place
46:04
on your motherboard. So there standard screws like for SSDs or other drives,
46:08
they're pretty small. They're not they're not definitely, they're not the same screws
46:13
that go on the actual motherboard itself, like to put it into the slot.
46:16
Yeah, there might be a standard I'm gonna look it up and tell
46:19
you, I don't know. It's probably really tiny. But standards, that's
46:22
what the people we're talking about, the sizes of screws for hard drives are
46:29
they really talking about? Yes they are, and can you believe it?
46:30
Yes, all the hard time is M two is actually a standard for screw
46:36
sizes. So I can't just type M two screw size because it's gonna give
46:38
me an it's kind of own size. You can you can order them,
46:42
you know, if you lose them. That's the nice thing about Amazon or
46:45
the internet. You can always you can always order a bag of screws and
46:50
or even go locally go to SWS or you know the guy here in Green
46:52
Valley and you can you can probably buy a bag of screws from them.
46:57
The other product I showed on television and I love that one. This one
47:00
is super cool. So this is the shift Cam snap grip. And what
47:07
it does is it turns your smartphone into It doesn't turn it into a DSLR,
47:14
but it almost is like a DSLR because you have a button that triggers
47:16
a photo on the top, connects via Bluetooth. You connect with a mag
47:22
safe to the device right and holds it in place, and then with Bluetooth,
47:28
you know, turn on. It turns into a really smooth video or
47:34
still. I just realized when I saw you show that on television, this
47:37
is uh for Android and iOS. Correct, yes, because I didn't realize
47:43
it. I have to when you showed it on TV. I was thinking
47:45
iOS. I was thinking Apple I Phone, well with the mag safe cases,
47:49
and you know, it plugs on the back of that, which is
47:52
pretty cool, but again you've got a real sturdy almost like shooting with a
47:54
DSLR. But it does come with an adapter, a magnetic adapter that can
48:00
go on the back of this and then connect on the back of the Android
48:04
device. So if you don't have a mag safe for your Android or even
48:07
an older iPhone that doesn't have it. But it does do a charge of
48:09
via the g QI standard, it'll it'll actually charge the device, whether it
48:15
be Android or iPhone. And these are not that expensive seventy nine bucks.
48:22
But they have a whole bunch of stuff. If you go to their website
48:24
for shift Cam, they make a tripod that could be used with this.
48:30
They make lights, they make microphones all for your smartphones to just give you
48:35
a better experience. And again, what would be really cool if they included
48:38
a battery internally that would use the magma to wires the charger. I was
48:44
kind of thinking about that, but Sean spoke it, yeah, oh yeah,
48:46
no, it does. It actually has a charge a battery that can
48:52
be charged up, and it will. As soon as you connect it,
48:55
it starts charging. So how you're thinking is using the ch charge like when
49:00
you go to bed at night and you you you charge your phone that way,
49:05
right. I have a mount next to my bed, I put my
49:07
phone on it and it charges right right right? Why can't that charge my
49:13
phone while I use it? And that's what's cool because it does. It
49:15
does have that and you charge it up via USBC comes with all the cabling
49:21
that you need, the whole bit. When the phone's attached, it automatically
49:24
starts charging. Yeah. So yeah, no, it's it will automatically start
49:30
charging, is what you're talking about. Perfect, So that's that you definitely
49:34
need to describe that as a function of the device because all right, so
49:37
I think a lot of people are going to confuse it with just a device
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that hooks up and takes pictures and stuff like what you're saying. So we'll
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actually start charging your phone, which is pretty cool. Yeah, it right
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as soon as you attach the phone if you could see it says charging perfect,
49:54
ask that question. So good, And it's not like the ten thousand
49:59
million amp battery that I have in that my charge It will it will give
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it a pretty good charge though, I mean while you're or while you're out
50:06
shooting, you don't have to worry too much about it. But again,
50:08
yeah, you've got a full charge right here and it's charging up and it's
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connected via Bluetooth. So yeah, okay, I didn't understand what you were
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saying there, so that's perfect. So I showed these and they were cool,
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and I'm thinking, I'm actually gonna buy this the company that sent it
50:22
to me and I'll send it back, but I'm gonna order. I probably
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order the full kit because the full kit actually has tripod and it has the
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has a I believe it has a light that goes with it as well.
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I know what battery size has come with it as well, because I mean,
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if you're shooting video, it's gonna burn through quite a bit of old
50:39
Yeah, I know. It's like I said, it's not like the my
50:43
Charge that has the ten thousand million amp, which is a hub which I
50:45
love. But again, it just feel a little more safer being out somewhere
50:51
shooting. And again you can find all their products available on the web at
50:54
shift Cam Empowering Mobile Creativity, which I kind of like big game this week.
51:02
Game out, not no no, no, no, Dame playing bass
51:05
football or whatever they're playing this week. There is there is not a home
51:08
game. So that's fine. Well, last week we talked about Balder's Gate
51:12
three, and the week before we talked about and played it. Yet you've
51:15
played it, you liked it. But this week, see now I'm torn.
51:19
I was gonna go ahead and get Balder's Gate three after your recommendation.
51:22
But now there's this one that a lot of people are talking about called Starfield,
51:28
and it's for Microsoft and the Xbox. It's the first game that Bethesda
51:32
is putting out after Microsoft, you know, kind of acquired them, and
51:37
it's their first big game. And people are talking about this open world game
51:40
that covers just about everything in space exploration, and they're saying it's it's a
51:46
fun game and it goes into many different subjects including I mean there's a little
51:52
bit of theology in there, which I think is pretty cool. Is they're
51:54
exploring other planets and you know, checking it out, and you might go
51:58
to a planet and would be nothing there, go to another one and you'll
52:00
have creatures that want to eat you. So you might look for that star
52:06
field and again a lot of people have been talking about that. All Right,
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gonna take another quick break. We will come back with more of tech
52:12
talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird Dan, I'm Slick.
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Find us on Facebook, Facebook dot com, Forward slash tech Talkers.
52:20
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio. Well, we
52:23
just finished talking about shift cam and the snap break product that I was able
52:29
to show on television. You can actually check out the video. It's up
52:30
on our YouTube page for tech talk Radio. You can also view it on
52:36
our website at tech talk radio dot com. But during the break, Sean
52:38
has actually been on the shift cam website taking a look at some of the
52:43
different products that they offer. Oh, they've got lens, they've got lenses
52:45
for cameras. They've got a program which is bigger, a little beefeater,
52:50
a little bit longer battery life. They've got LEDs, they've got bicolor panel,
52:54
led panels. I mean, there's there's some cool stuff on this that
52:59
you can do if you're a vlogger or if you're looking to just add a
53:02
little bit of extra snazzy to your podcasting set up. These are really cool
53:07
you said lenses in they're thinking, wait, can I put lenses on my
53:10
smartphone? Yeah, there are ways you can get lenses for your phone that
53:16
fit over the backside, wide angle lenses and amorphic lenses, all sorts of
53:22
stuff. So they've got a full kit that has seven different lenses in it
53:24
for a thousand bucks. When you think about it, the optics on our
53:29
smartphones, whether you're using an Android and then of course the iPhones, the
53:32
optics are just really good, so much so that a lot of the companies
53:37
that have made dflrs have kind of back tracked on those and now they're making
53:43
you know, mirrorist cameras instead, But still the optics are just great.
53:46
That's shift cam dot com. I remember there was a company that made a
53:52
lens that you could fit onto the top of your smartphone and it was cool
53:55
because you could just flip it so you had a fish I or a acro
54:00
if you wanted to have that. They were like thirty five bucks at the
54:04
time. It doesn't work within the newer devices, but actually it was pretty
54:07
cool back then. But if shift cam is doing that for your current smartphones,
54:12
then why not do you get those microscope add ons? As well.
54:15
Right, you can get microscope add ons or cameras that connect to your phone,
54:19
vo Wi Fi, those types of things. All right. So we
54:21
published a meme on our Facebook page and the meme says, am I the
54:24
only one now as we got older, that you actually take a picture of
54:28
something and then you look at the picture and zoom in to read the label
54:32
because you know the small print as you get older eyes. I mean I
54:36
do that. But then somebody come in and why don't you use the microscope
54:38
app? Wait? Is there a microscope app app? I've never heard of
54:42
seeing a microscope app. There probably is. There's an app for everything these
54:45
days. Wow. So I don't have to take a photo, but I
54:49
do the photo so I can remember what I was looking at. Getting old
54:52
is wonderful. All right, that's it for this week's tech Talk Radio.
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That website again, shift cam dot com. Is that it shiftcam dot com.
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Check it out, Len's Grip Snapgrip program, LEDs travel pods and just
55:07
it's it's a cool deal for your phone. All right. Well, we
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