Tag: Macintosh

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On top of this program that I had waited 3 months to be shipped from the
United States,
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And I destroyed it. And I was thinking,
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If I'd had a Mac, that wouldn't have happened.
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Um, so that was what convinced me to buy Mac, and I went down to Akihabara
in Tokyo,
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Um, the day… they… they released him in Japan, and I bought one. I bought
the model that they had set up,
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for a display, because they were going to do a live TV broadcast. And
since that was the one that was set up, I bought it, and they were very sad,
and I didn't realize why until after they handed me the box. They said,
well, we'd set it up for a commercial.
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Oh, well. I've got a noun, so I went back to, uh…
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Back home with this Mac, but I bought the very first Mac sold in Japan.
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Completely by accident.
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Well, no. I went there to see it, so it wasn't too much of an accident,
but…
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Um, and that was long before I saw the commercial, but the commercial,
it illustrated
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Um, apples idea that…
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that computers, if they're just calculating devices, and you have to know
a whole bunch of… you have to memorize a whole bunch of commands, we're
not good devices, and so…
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Steve Jobs said that the Macintosh was not a computer, it was an appliance
for the mind.
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And in the original packaging, they talked about it being a mind appliance,
which…
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Uh, today would…
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probably creep people out, but at the time, it seemed like a good idea.
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Anybody have any questions?
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Um, I have one. Um, there was just, um, an update from Apple called
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23.1…
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23.3.1A, and do you know what that was about? They said some kind of 
security emergency?
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Uh… when did you see that?
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Uh, today, uh, about…
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30 minutes ago.
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Uh…
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And it was in the… it was called Background Improvement.
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security. And you had to find this. It wasn't on general software update.
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It was, uh, in the privacy and security section,
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and you scroll down to background improvement, and there was the update
to install.
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And then it was called 23.3.1
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A.
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I do not see that. What device was this on?
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The, um, IOS and MACOS,
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And iPadOS, all three, not TV, but the iPad, the iPhone, and your laptop
MacOS.
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I…
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And they said, install it immediately, because there was some…
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uh, security issue.
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I would probably not do that, because the software update's not showing
that, and that's the only place that you should see that.
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kind of update, so I'm suspicious.
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I… I might be incorrectly suspicious, but…
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Well, no, it was in… it was in my security.
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When I looked in privacy and security, there was the update, and it said
install.
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And, well, except that it shouldn't be in privacy and security, it should
be just under…
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Yeah, I know, that was a very weird place for it to show up.
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Yeah, I'm…
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But on both the iPad and my iPhone and my laptop, all three,
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And, uh, I'm now running 23 point… 26.3.1A.
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Yeah…
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And if you look on your… if you look on your privacy security, you'll
see it.
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Well, I'm looking at privacy and security on my…
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right this second, and I do not see anything.
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No, scroll down to Background Improvements, all the way to the bottom,
towards the bottom.
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Background improvements.
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Alright, and then select that, and then you'll see
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Ah! Okay.
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23.3…
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26.3.1A.
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I…
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And it says, install immediately.
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Yeah, well, I would still…
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I'm still gonna hold off on this until I know more.
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Um,
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You know, I was wondering what that was all about. I was…
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Well, I'm just… I'm just by nature, I'm very paranoid, and sometimes
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paranoia means, um…
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don't follow, I mean, the rules. I know my rule was…
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install updates, but my up… the update process you're supposed to go
through is through the…
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security update process, and it's not there, so I'm going to investigate
this. The, um…
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is an example of something that happened once upon a time. The, um…
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Um, federal government ordered
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The entire government to install a Windows update on every machine that
the Windows
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that the government had.
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And I was ordered to install it on all the machines I was responsible for,
which were 700 Macs.
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And I said, I could not install a Windows update on Macs,
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And I was told in no uncertain terms by the CIO, who
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really was an idiot, that I had to. So what I did is that I followed the
rule,
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I created this file, and I told everybody to put this on your
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Uh, Mac. It won't do anything.
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But I can say that they… everybody… it was distributed to everybody.
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And so they… we had this, like, this software updates back then were small.
It was, like, 3 gigs. Not 3 gigs, it was about 3 megabytes.
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So, every single Mac that I had had this 3MB file on it, and it just sat
there for about 3 days,
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He came back with a very sheepish, oh, never mind, and…
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We threw it away, but um…
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I tend to…
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I tend to make sure that it's through, um…
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Well, let's…
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the standard process, so I will… I'll make… I'll look at the… I'll look
at that after the meeting, because I…
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Um,
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curious about this.
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I have one thing on my wife's iPhone,
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I had not updated it.
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to 26.3.1, it only had 26.3.
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But when I looked at the normal place for general software update,
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It said, update 23… 26.3.1A, and that was through the general software
update. But that's because I had not used
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23 point… 26.3.1 on her phone. Only 26.
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Yeah.
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Well,
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3. And so, but when I did it on her phone, it went through the normal…
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the normal channel, but on mine and mine, I had 23… 26.3.1 already,
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And to do the A, you had to go through the background improvement.
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Oh, okay.
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Okay, I, um, I will… I'll take that under your eyes, but I'm just not
going to do a software update before the meeting, so… but that is… that
is very unusual, and…
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Yeah, it is. It's very unusual. And to have it as an A, a letter,
instead of a number.
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Was we…
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Yeah… that is…
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strange.
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But when I look at my, uh, my Mac, it says updated to 26.3.1A, and
the A is in
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parentheses.
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Okay, well, again…
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That's the new, uh, that's the new thing they just implemented for…
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background security updates.
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Background improvement.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Well,
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That's… I mean, the A thing.
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You know, the 8. Right.
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That's what that is.
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Yeah, I did it on mine.
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I will, um, look at that after the meeting.
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Um, and I'll also probably write to them and say, what the heck are
you guys doing?
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Yeah.
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Um, I know several of these.
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security people at Apple, and I give them a bad time. I still have a
machine…
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that, um, that, um…
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Um, is not doing a security thing the way I want it to. But, uh…
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their, uh… the lame excuse they gave me is, oh, that's an old Intel
machine.
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Yeah, well, too bad, it's still not doing what I want it to do, so…
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Such as life. Any other questions?
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Mr. Lockwood, you sent me a question which I've completely forgotten
about. So, what was the question?
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Uh, it had to do with the iPhone, and…
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with maximizing storage,
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Oh, yes.
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Where you can store… yeah, and I… my question was,
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If you turn that on, and then the… the…
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If you have space, apparently, it only…
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It's got some… it doesn't automatically…
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If I'm reading Apple's description right, it doesn't automatically
store everything,
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Uh, at low resolution on your machine, but it could.
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My question was, if that's turned on and you want to email a full
resolution version of a photo to somebody,
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How do you do that?
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Okay, um, to give you some background, um, that may seem not… may not
seem relevant, but it's actually…
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has a lot to do with this. I had a friend who bought an iPhone,
and they were going on a trip to, uh…
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Europe, and they bought one that didn't have a heck of a lot of storage
on it. It was back in the days when they were selling them, looked like.
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32 gigs, or 64 gigs, or something like that.
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And so what she did, she set it at the lowest possible resolution so
that every time she took a picture, it was at low resolution.
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When she came back from Europe after spending, I don't know how long
there, uh, she came out with all these photographs that, by our standards
today, were about the size of postage stamps. They were about…
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Uh, 800 pixels across.
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And by comparison, the iPhone today will shoot one at 4,000 pixels… 40…
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More than 4,000 pixels across. And larger depending upon the model.
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And, um, she wanted to know how she could get them larger, and I said,
well, she couldn't because she'd set it at a small…
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resolution, because she didn't want to use up a lot of space. So
she came back with a lot of space and a lot of really small photographs.
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I recommend that people shoot things at the highest possible resolution,
and I have an article up on the…
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smug site saying how to do that.
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with the new iPhone 17, which…
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It applies to older ones as well, but…
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Um, set it at the highest possible resolution. Because when it comes
to taking photographs and movies,
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You can throw away pixels by shrinking the photograph.
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But you really can't add them. If you add…
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pixels to a small resolution thing, what you're doing is just making
a larger image that's grainy.
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Because it's… it's just repeating the same thing over and over again.
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So, if you don't want grainy, shoo it at the highest possible resolution.
Well, the question is,
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How do you store that on a machine?
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Um, that may not have that much space. It requires a couple things
to do. First of all, have an iCloud plan that's not set at the basic
level.
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The free one gives you 5GB of space. Well, my new…
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iPhone 17 Pro Max, or whatever the heck it is.
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Each individual photograph is about ten.
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Um…
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100 megs, I mean, they're… they're large, because I shoot them not only
at the highest resolution, but I also shoot them as what's called raw.
And with RAW,
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It's hard to explain exactly why, but raw is a good thing when it's
shooting, uh, images because
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If the color is off, I can change the color without destroying the image.
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And the other thing is, when you're editing it, it leaves the raw image
alone, and you're editing
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basically a virtual copy, so you never mess with the original. So
I always shoot it raw, and so these things are over 100 megabytes.
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per photograph. Well, that takes up a lot of space, but I bought a
lot of space. But say you didn't have a lot,
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If you have a non-free account, when that you're actually paying for,
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You'll get… I don't remember what the smallest measure is. You can get
50 gigs, 100 gigs, 200 gigs, terabytes, you can get a huge amount of
space.
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So, say if you have 500 megs, or even…
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Um, 100 gigs of space. If you say you want to minimize space on your
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phone, your phone checks with iCloud, says, okay, I can send all the
high-resolution stuffs up to iCloud, and what I will do
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Locally, is have a…
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high resolution, but not full resolution,
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copy on the phone.
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And then, if somebody… if you want to look at your phone, your phone's
only a couple thousand pixels across. It's not as if you can have this
massive thing
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on that tiny little screen, it'll still look good on your phone, and
if you want to download the high-resolution onto your desktop machine,
which you
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should, you can do so.
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If you tell it to sync up to iCloud, and iCloud will…
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Pull down your…
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computer will pull down from iCloud the full resolution versions,
and you can have them on your machine, and you can edit them and do
whatever you want to.
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Well, his question is, if somebody… if you want to send a full resolution
copy to someone, what does it do?
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Well, there are a couple things to think about. One is, if you've got
a pick… if you've got a
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full resolution, even if it's a JPEG and it's not.
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a, uh, a raw image.
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The JPEG might be too big for email.
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It's very possible a lot of people have small email accounts. For example,
if you are with Verizon,
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The standard size of an attachment, if it's over a megabyte in size,
over a megabyte, which isn't very big,
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Grayson will scold you and say, hey, that's kind of big.
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Um, and I… depending upon what kind of plan you have, it might go up
to 10 megs, but it's still possible to send a picture larger than what
Verizon will accept. So that's one limitation. So what do you do?
You can send the thing anyway,
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And it's like, at that point, it's a… it's a, um…
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match between what you have on iCloud and what the other people can accept.
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And if they can accept a full resolution,
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photograph, it'll download it.
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from iCloud.
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If they can't,
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they'll get a smaller version.
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Because that's all that their system will allow.
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So, when you're sending it, keep in mind that if it's synced up to iCloud,
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It doesn't necessarily have to come from your
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Computer, from your phone. It can come from iCloud. And you'll actually
see that. Sometimes it'll say, um,
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Give them a photo drop or something, I can't remember what the
phraseology is. But what they're basically saying is, yeah, go ahead
and send it to this. It's not really going to come from your computer,
it's really going to come from iCloud, and that's where… and I shouldn't
do that.
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And that's where the full copy is.
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I had surgery on my shoulder, and this glove is on my hand to remind me
not to raise my hand.
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And I forgot. And my shoulder told me about that. Um…
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But anyway, that's… the answer is, if you have…
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a paid, uh, version of iCloud.
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It can store the full resolution up there, and you really don't have
to worry about not having full access on your phone. Because really,
on your phone, the limitation is the size of the screen.
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And the photographs are always going to be larger than the screen anyway,
so don't worry about that. If you want to send somebody a full resolution,
it's going to come from iCloud, it doesn't have to come off your phone.
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I realized that was a complicated answer, but I don't want you to get
into the habit of this
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poor friend of mine who was shooting low-resolution pictures in Europe
because she was trying to save space.
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That's not the right answer.
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Thank you.
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Any other questions?
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It is after 7. Um…
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Um, our, uh, president, Sabrina, wanted to say that she won't be here
because she is, um…
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Working today, uh, tonight.
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And our treasurer,
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Annalise says that basically she wants to…
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Um, somebody else take over the job of treasurer. And, uh, Sabrina
would like to do… somebody else to take over the job of president.
The current…
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straight Macintosh user group started back in…
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Uh, 2018.
00:39:02.789 --> 00:39:05.789
When Kathleen and Sabrina…
00:39:06.169 --> 00:39:14.169
And Annalise and I went to a meeting, and the current leadership
said that they were tired of running the user group,
00:39:15.225 --> 00:39:23.225
And they wanted to shut it down, and we asked the members that were
there, uh, if they really wanted to shut it down, and most of them said
no, they did not.
00:39:23.335 --> 00:39:33.335
And I… Sabrina was elected president, I was elected vice president,
Annalise was elected treasurer, and Kathleen was elected, um…
00:39:34.349 --> 00:39:38.349
Uh, secretary, and that was in 2018.
00:39:38.495 --> 00:39:44.495
And, uh, my spouse has since died, and Annalise and…
00:39:45.875 --> 00:39:47.875
Um, Sabrina would like to…
00:39:48.384 --> 00:39:53.384
not be officers anymore, because they've been officers for a long time.
So…
00:39:53.569 --> 00:39:58.569
Please give some thought, because I don't want to run the entire
group just by myself.
00:39:59.517 --> 00:40:04.517
Um, I would like some assistance. So please give that some thought.
00:40:04.609 --> 00:40:09.609
Um, between now and, um, when we meet in, uh, April.
00:40:10.169 --> 00:40:13.169
Um, the other thing is that, um…
00:40:13.582 --> 00:40:15.582
I'm going to be out of town for a while,
00:40:15.583 --> 00:40:19.969
But as long as we don't have it particularly complicated, um,
00:40:20.997 --> 00:40:25.997
program in April, um, I should be back in time to put something
together, so…
00:40:26.331 --> 00:40:32.331
give some thought as to what you want in April. I would suggest that
we talk about something else other than an iPhone,
00:40:32.604 --> 00:40:34.604
Uh, for at least for, you know,
00:40:35.531 --> 00:40:40.531
meeting or two, because, um, we've gone through a lot of iPhone stuff
in the…
00:40:41.657 --> 00:40:44.657
And now, this is the third month in a row we've talked about the iPhone.
00:40:45.066 --> 00:40:47.066
Um, anything else before I start?
00:40:49.989 --> 00:40:54.989
Okay, I'm going to share my screen. I am recording, and I do have, uh…
00:40:56.132 --> 00:40:59.132
closed-circuit, uh, not closed circuit, closed captioning running,
00:40:59.463 --> 00:41:01.463
It just reminded me, uh…
00:41:01.464 --> 00:41:04.565
that I should send you the attendance form.
00:41:04.566 --> 00:41:06.868
Because that would be nice to have.
00:41:07.612 --> 00:41:10.612
Uh, it'll be… I'm gonna post the, uh…
00:41:10.784 --> 00:41:12.784
link in the chat window.
00:41:13.429 --> 00:41:15.429
And, uh, chat window…
00:41:17.848 --> 00:41:19.848
It's posted now. Um…
00:41:20.707 --> 00:41:22.707
So, if you could fill out that, it would be useful.
00:41:22.725 --> 00:41:24.725
And now I'm going to…
00:41:24.729 --> 00:41:26.729
share my screen.
00:41:27.636 --> 00:41:29.636
And we're gonna share…
00:41:29.574 --> 00:41:31.574
fat screen.
00:41:37.648 --> 00:41:39.648
And… I'm going to…
00:41:42.608 --> 00:41:44.608
move this out of the way…
00:41:50.646 --> 00:41:52.646
Okay, can you…
00:41:53.323 --> 00:41:55.323
See this screen now?
00:41:57.482 --> 00:41:59.482
Are you there?
00:42:03.696 --> 00:42:05.696
Yeah, we can see it.
00:42:05.696 --> 00:42:06.987
Okay.
00:42:06.988 --> 00:42:08.145
Lawrence, before you go on the…
00:42:08.927 --> 00:42:10.927
the form says February 17th.
00:42:11.347 --> 00:42:13.347
Uh, it does?
00:42:13.604 --> 00:42:15.604
Well, shame on that.
00:42:21.275 --> 00:42:23.275
I sent mine in anyway.
00:42:23.456 --> 00:42:25.456
Uh, yeah, well…
00:42:26.292 --> 00:42:29.292
Anyway, maybe I made a typo.
00:42:35.790 --> 00:42:38.790
Uh, turn on recording, turn on closed captioning…
00:42:38.930 --> 00:42:40.930
Remember to sign out, sounds good.
00:42:41.656 --> 00:42:49.656
Um, I'm gonna repeat these references that I've mentioned before. If you
ever need help with your iPad, your Mac, or your, uh…
00:42:50.112 --> 00:42:54.112
iPhone, there is a TIPS application on your device,
00:42:54.031 --> 00:42:59.031
And you can use the search bar within it to find out what it is you
don't know.
00:42:59.188 --> 00:43:02.188
Uh, there are also these books from, uh…
00:43:02.667 --> 00:43:04.667
from Take Control Books,
00:43:04.668 --> 00:43:10.790
Uh, that are, because they're electronic, they're easily searchable,
and you can find out what you need from them.
00:43:10.997 --> 00:43:15.997
And this is a new book, it's not specific to the iPhone, just came out.
00:43:16.303 --> 00:43:18.303
It's supposed to come out on April 1st.
00:43:18.815 --> 00:43:28.815
called Apple, The First 50 Years. It's 600-plus pages long. Uh, it's
illustrated in color, it's available in hardback, paperback, or as
an e-book.
00:43:29.613 --> 00:43:32.613
And this is a screenshot from my Kindle.
00:43:32.610 --> 00:43:34.610
of, uh, what is it?
00:43:34.852 --> 00:43:36.852
page… something.
00:43:38.253 --> 00:43:43.253
But, um, it's basically a history of Apple, but it talks about a lot
about the design.
00:43:43.695 --> 00:43:49.695
and has a lot of interesting tidbits, and this is a screenshot from
the Super Bowl commercial that, uh…
00:43:49.909 --> 00:43:51.909
I was talking about.
00:43:52.666 --> 00:44:01.666
things you can do with them, uh, iPhone. You can take strange pictures.
This is an advertisement for Vistaprint, and if you look at the cup,
00:44:01.666 --> 00:44:03.724
It's shows just a…
00:44:05.091 --> 00:44:09.091
tremendous amount of care and craftsmanship, and makes you really want
to go out and buy
00:44:09.107 --> 00:44:11.107
something from Vistaprint.
00:44:12.895 --> 00:44:16.895
And I took this photo today, and I sent it to one of my relatives,
00:44:17.549 --> 00:44:19.549
And they made the joke that, uh…
00:44:19.549 --> 00:44:25.574
Actually, that's the second one. They said that the house was tilted
and I should straighten it out, so I straightened it out.
00:44:25.574 --> 00:44:28.151
And, uh, sent them back this.
00:44:28.746 --> 00:44:31.746
that's not particularly useful, but it did amuse me.
00:44:32.981 --> 00:44:39.981
You can make fun of AI, such as this particular cartoon that's talking
about an AI that…
00:44:39.971 --> 00:44:41.971
All you have to do is feed it, uh…
00:44:42.387 --> 00:44:44.387
10 baby giraffes a day,
00:44:44.413 --> 00:44:50.413
And they said, does it answer the questions correctly? And, oh, no,
it doesn't do that. But, you know…
00:44:50.891 --> 00:44:52.891
Small price to pay for AI.
00:44:54.217 --> 00:44:59.217
And you can see things like this. This is an actual National Park Service
tweet.
00:44:59.707 --> 00:45:02.707
Saying that trails often look flatter on the map, which is…
00:45:03.651 --> 00:45:06.651
Uh, not only good advice, but also quite funny.
00:45:08.093 --> 00:45:15.093
And here we have a VIN diagram showing the intersection between cats
and printers.
00:45:15.424 --> 00:45:25.424
And they have a lot in common. They're moody, unreliable, spend lots
of time self-cleaning, demand feeding when container is full, ignores
requests.
00:45:27.928 --> 00:45:29.928
Other things you can do that are more useful.
00:45:30.932 --> 00:45:34.932
The iPhone and the Apple Watch have, uh, the…
00:45:35.406 --> 00:45:37.406
more recent ones, have
00:45:38.478 --> 00:45:44.478
crash alerts. If they detect that you've been in a serious car crash,
it will wait
00:45:44.478 --> 00:45:52.577
Uh, it'll sound an alarm for 10 seconds, and if you can aim… if you're
able to, you can turn off the alert,
00:45:52.577 --> 00:45:56.290
If you don't, it'll send a, uh…
00:45:57.538 --> 00:46:03.538
Um, a 911 call with your location after a 30-second countdown. So you
do have
00:46:04.678 --> 00:46:10.678
an opportunity to stop the alert, but if you're in a crash, this is
a really nice thing to happen.
00:46:11.576 --> 00:46:14.576
have, because it happens automatically, it doesn't require that you
00:46:15.549 --> 00:46:19.549
Uh, you don't even have to be conscious. It'll, it'll send a notice
of a crash.
00:46:19.550 --> 00:46:25.898
The first time this technology was used was in a crash in Washington State.
00:46:26.649 --> 00:46:28.649
Um, they found a guy who'd, uh…
00:46:28.887 --> 00:46:30.887
His car had gone down a ravine,
00:46:31.812 --> 00:46:34.812
And, um, he was unconscious, but his phone…
00:46:34.933 --> 00:46:36.933
alerted the State Patrol.
00:46:37.665 --> 00:46:39.665
Is that the same as the fall detector?
00:46:40.325 --> 00:46:50.325
No, this fall detectors second. The fall detectors with the Apple Watch.
The Apple Watch, and even though the Apple Watch is not an iPhone,
00:46:50.993 --> 00:46:58.993
You actually set this up on your iPhone, and it works with your iPhone,
and so on and so forth. The Apple Watch has a fall detector, which if you
are
00:47:00.048 --> 00:47:10.048
Older than about 50, it's a good idea to have something like this. The
fall detector, if you fall, it'll come up with an… again, it'll come up
with an alert, it'll give you a chance to…
00:47:11.011 --> 00:47:15.011
cancel the alert if you are not able to cancel the alert, it'll also send.
00:47:15.891 --> 00:47:18.891
a message to the 911 operator.
00:47:19.931 --> 00:47:31.931
And again, the first time this happened was put to use was in Washington
State. A guy was going through the Cascades, and he fell down a hillside
off of a trail,
00:47:32.330 --> 00:47:34.330
And his watch alerted the, uh…
00:47:35.249 --> 00:47:39.249
911. In his case, because it wasn't a car,
00:47:39.333 --> 00:47:41.333
He was a little bit harder to see,
00:47:41.713 --> 00:47:43.713
And it took them a couple hours, but again,
00:47:44.416 --> 00:47:46.416
He… this completely without his help.
00:47:47.091 --> 00:47:49.091
So, it's a really nice thing to have.
00:47:49.191 --> 00:47:51.191
Other things you can do…
00:47:52.266 --> 00:47:54.266
In messages, you have the ability…
00:47:54.675 --> 00:47:56.675
to, uh, send…
00:47:57.135 --> 00:48:03.135
uh, check-in messages when you reach a particular point, and you do this
with messages down where that little…
00:48:03.763 --> 00:48:10.763
plus symbol is, you can add a bunch of stuff to your messages, and
one of them is a check-in, and in the check-in, you can specify if
you're driving,
00:48:11.036 --> 00:48:18.036
If you're in transit, if you're walking, it gives an estimated time of
when you're going to get there and say when you arrive, it'll…
00:48:18.788 --> 00:48:27.788
check in. Now, why this is useful, it's useful if you're trying to
meet someone. It tells you if they're in a crowded venue, it'll say,
hey, I'm here someplace.
00:48:28.427 --> 00:48:32.427
The other thing that it's useful for is if you're not certain about
00:48:33.291 --> 00:48:36.291
your trip, and you want somebody to be looking for you.
00:48:37.165 --> 00:48:45.165
Um, so it's a very useful thing to have. Uh, one limitation with this,
it really works only if you and the recipient
00:48:45.571 --> 00:48:49.571
have an iPhone. If they have an Android phone, I'm not sure how, um…
00:48:50.155 --> 00:48:54.155
reliable this is. Um, other things you can do…
00:48:55.154 --> 00:49:00.154
are emergency notifications. I have all the notifications turned on
in my phone.
00:49:00.624 --> 00:49:11.624
I have it turned on for Amber Alerts, emergency alerts, public safety
alerts, test alerts, um, and if you look under, uh, there's a section
here, it's called Enhanced Safety Alerts,
00:49:11.625 --> 00:49:18.534
If you look at that, you can see you can turn on earthquake alerts,
not a good… not a bad thing for us to have around here.
00:49:18.551 --> 00:49:22.551
An imminent threat alerts. Um, so…
00:49:22.551 --> 00:49:30.326
it's all kinds of things that your phone, without any intervention on
your part, can tell you what's happening around you.
00:49:30.832 --> 00:49:35.832
And, uh, alert you to it. Uh, the only time this ever really bothered me
is that…
00:49:35.934 --> 00:49:41.934
I had an Amber Alert for something that took place at Moses Lake,
and it came in at
00:49:41.952 --> 00:49:44.952
2 in the morning, and that kind of torqued me off, but…
00:49:45.819 --> 00:49:49.819
The, uh… I complained to the Washington State Patrol, and they said,
lots of people had complained,
00:49:50.517 --> 00:49:53.517
And they've, uh, they've refined their system since then.
00:49:54.711 --> 00:50:01.711
You can also send it in an SOS. Now, this is something that you trigger.
It's not something that happens automatically.
00:50:02.844 --> 00:50:09.844
But if you push the volume up button and the power button on the opposite
side, and you hold it for a bit, and then release it,
00:50:10.258 --> 00:50:15.258
It will trigger an SOS, which again sends something to 9-11.
00:50:16.156 --> 00:50:23.156
Um, why does it do this? It's doing this if you think you're being
carjacked, or hijacked, or threatened, or something.
00:50:23.208 --> 00:50:26.208
it'll just send this, and it doesn't require…
00:50:26.406 --> 00:50:31.406
Um, anything on your… else on your side. It…
00:50:31.882 --> 00:50:37.882
Also, we'll… this is another way to turn it on on a watch, because
you can do the same thing from a watch.
00:50:38.207 --> 00:50:47.207
Uh, with the watch, you push the two buttons that it has, rather than
just one, and it'll also turn on the severe crash alert,
00:50:47.652 --> 00:50:52.652
fall detection alerts. So this is another way of contacting 911.
But this is one that you
00:50:53.453 --> 00:50:57.453
you trigger on demand as you feel necessary.
00:50:58.251 --> 00:51:00.251
And, uh, in…
00:51:00.494 --> 00:51:05.494
Squim is probably not as necessary as in some places of the world,
but um…
00:51:05.495 --> 00:51:07.982
It's still a nice thing to know that it can do that.
00:51:10.001 --> 00:51:22.001
There are some things, because your iPhone does so much, it's nice
to know that there are things that you can keep it from doing. And you…
a lot of this you find under privacy and security.
00:51:22.009 --> 00:51:26.009
This is a screenshot from my phone, and you'll notice that it says,
00:51:26.029 --> 00:51:28.029
that there are…
00:51:28.697 --> 00:51:30.697
two applications I have,
00:51:30.697 --> 00:51:33.191
that are always showing location,
00:51:33.449 --> 00:51:35.449
And anyone that only use it
00:51:36.153 --> 00:51:39.153
When, um, I'm using the app in question,
00:51:39.714 --> 00:51:46.714
And there's one that allows tracking. So what exactly does this mean?
A lot of games, as an example,
00:51:46.804 --> 00:51:48.804
Want to know your location.
00:51:49.538 --> 00:51:54.538
Well, if you're playing a game, you probably don't want anybody to know
where you are. It's not really necessary to play the game.
00:51:54.539 --> 00:52:00.019
And they'll do the same thing with tracking. They try tracking your
activity, what are you looking at, uh,
00:52:00.936 --> 00:52:06.936
If you stop using the app and did something else, a lot of tracking
activity. You'll notice I only have tracking on one.
00:52:07.197 --> 00:52:09.197
thing. That one thing…
00:52:09.254 --> 00:52:12.254
is a speed test that I use on the internet.
00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:23.120
And the reason why I use… I turn on tracking for that is that if you're
doing an internet speed test, it really does kind of need to know what
it is you're doing. So I turn on tracking for the speed test,
00:52:23.245 --> 00:52:32.245
The two that I allow out location services always are Apple Maps
and Google Maps, and that's because when I turn on Maps and I want to
00:52:32.988 --> 00:52:36.988
get direction for someplace I'm going. I don't want to have to remember
to turn on
00:52:37.312 --> 00:52:41.312
Location services. I just want it to always be on, so…
00:52:42.249 --> 00:52:52.249
That's how I have it set up. But this… this privacy and security pane
will allow you to go through all your apps and turn everything off or
everything on, or customize it to your…
00:52:52.791 --> 00:52:55.791
Um, to your desires.
00:52:56.673 --> 00:53:01.673
If you scroll down a bit, you can come to the section where it tells
you about block contacts.
00:53:02.253 --> 00:53:06.253
If I get spam from particular numbers, I block them.
00:53:06.372 --> 00:53:13.372
And so, I block unknowns, I block things that are known. I don't
remember what 304 is, but it's some…
00:53:13.752 --> 00:53:18.752
company that, uh, I just don't want to ever hear from them again.
00:53:18.756 --> 00:53:23.756
And if you scroll down again in privacy, you'll come to the safety check.
00:53:23.813 --> 00:53:29.813
Which will allow you to do kind of blanket management of a whole bunch
of things at once. You'll notice that…
00:53:30.125 --> 00:53:35.125
One is emergency reset, which resets the access for everything, and…
00:53:35.255 --> 00:53:38.255
You would do that if you think your machine… your… your…
00:53:38.633 --> 00:53:43.633
phone is compromised, or if it was out of your control for a while,
you left it in a…
00:53:43.714 --> 00:53:48.714
restaurant and came back a day later, and you just want to make sure
that nobody was messing with it.
00:53:49.738 --> 00:53:51.738
Um, so it's got that safety check feature.
00:53:51.795 --> 00:53:56.795
If you scroll down in privacy and Security, you'll also see that you
can get a privacy report.
00:53:57.547 --> 00:53:59.547
And the privacy report will
00:53:59.547 --> 00:54:04.596
give you a report on what everything is doing. In this case, this is
a screen done from my…
00:54:04.596 --> 00:54:12.782
phone, it says that I use the weather app 50 seconds ago, and 56
seconds ago, a message came in. In 56 seconds ago…
00:54:13.045 --> 00:54:28.045
My photos synced in 57 seconds ago, it talked USA Drive Safe, uh,
USAA is an insurance company, and if I run this app on my phone, and it finds out that I'm using my phone while I'm driving,
00:54:28.222 --> 00:54:33.222
Um, I don't get a discount, so I run it, because I want the discount.
00:54:33.273 --> 00:54:39.273
And I used Fab Maps 4 minutes ago, and so on and so forth. And it also
tells you the times that
00:54:39.998 --> 00:54:41.998
You've been using things, and you see that I…
00:54:42.412 --> 00:54:44.412
look at the AP news fairly often,
00:54:45.061 --> 00:54:49.061
And, uh, Google Home, I use for…
00:54:50.250 --> 00:54:52.250
cameras and…
00:54:52.752 --> 00:54:55.752
um… smoke detectors and things in my house.
00:54:57.666 --> 00:55:10.666
things that you should do if you have an Apple iPhone, and if you haven't
set it up, you should set up the medical ID, and you do that using the
medical app, which is the one that's shaped like a heart.
00:55:10.667 --> 00:55:18.725
And you go in there, and you tell it your name, and it's your real name,
your real age, your real weight, so on and so forth.
00:55:18.725 --> 00:55:29.440
And it keeps track of a lot of things that you do, like the number of
steps you do a day, and, um, your heart rate if you have something like
an Apple Watch that can detect that.
00:55:29.921 --> 00:55:33.921
does all kinds of things. You can also sync it to your medical record,
00:55:34.683 --> 00:55:40.683
And I've done that, and the reason why I do that is I go to, uh,
Olympic medical physicians,
00:55:40.683 --> 00:55:49.199
And I have a MyChart account, and the MyCharts, quite often, especially
things like blood tests, it comes back with a bunch of stuff, and it
says,
00:55:49.300 --> 00:55:53.300
Uh, this is this, and this is that, and I have no idea what it means.
00:55:53.215 --> 00:55:58.215
the raw data on MyChart doesn't really tell me.
00:55:58.273 --> 00:56:01.273
But within the Apple Health app,
00:56:02.131 --> 00:56:05.131
it'll actually give an explanation and give you graphs of
00:56:05.217 --> 00:56:07.217
changes over time, and it tells you
00:56:07.515 --> 00:56:11.515
what that particular test is looking for. So it's really, really…
00:56:12.124 --> 00:56:16.124
handy. It's also where you set up the medical ID stuff.
00:56:16.406 --> 00:56:22.406
The medical ID, once know the name of your spouse, wants to know…
and if you're a child, your mother and your father,
00:56:22.672 --> 00:56:25.672
bunch of emergency contacts, and…
00:56:25.936 --> 00:56:31.936
Um, I'll show you in a second the, um, something else that it does
that's handy, but…
00:56:32.900 --> 00:56:36.900
It's… the medical ID is good for just your own tracking your own health,
00:56:37.296 --> 00:56:39.296
But it's also good if you are injured.
00:56:39.811 --> 00:56:41.811
And I will show you that in a second.
00:56:42.614 --> 00:56:44.614
When… if there is an emergency,
00:56:45.256 --> 00:56:50.256
These… you see on the left, the iPhone, you see on the right, the
Apple Watch.
00:56:50.928 --> 00:56:52.928
These are things that will appear
00:56:53.601 --> 00:56:55.601
on, uh, those devices,
00:56:55.602 --> 00:56:59.339
If, uh, you're unconscious in a healthcare…
00:56:59.778 --> 00:57:04.778
Our emergency services person comes and triggers it on your iPhone, and…
00:57:04.967 --> 00:57:07.967
I'm going to unshare my screen for a second.
00:57:08.414 --> 00:57:10.414
So I can show you what that looks like.
00:57:15.207 --> 00:57:17.207
And all I need is the…
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:21.039
Right?
00:57:23.875 --> 00:57:25.875
Gonna share the screen again…
00:57:29.874 --> 00:57:31.874
If I can figure out…
00:57:34.112 --> 00:57:36.112
Can you see that on the screen?
00:57:39.774 --> 00:57:48.774
Uh, this is what happens. If the medical personnel come along, they press
the side buttons on the machine, it pops up this thing for medical ID.
00:57:49.476 --> 00:57:53.476
And it starts scrolling from the bottom. I cut it off there because I
don't want you to show
00:57:53.476 --> 00:57:56.576
all that. I don't want you to see all that stuff, but…
00:57:57.517 --> 00:58:00.517
Uh, I don't want you to know about, uh…
00:58:01.819 --> 00:58:07.819
all my various problems, but it's, um, it's… they don't have to… they're
not getting into the phone
00:58:08.832 --> 00:58:15.832
The only thing they can see is that medical ID. It's sort of like the
little wristbands that people used to carry around on their wrists,
and this…
00:58:15.766 --> 00:58:19.766
gives them a lot more information than those wristbands did.
00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:21.880
So…
00:58:27.419 --> 00:58:32.419
Well, other things you can do is you can set up stolen device, uh,
protection.
00:58:32.765 --> 00:58:39.765
And I'll let you play with this and figure out how to… what it does.
It says that it adds an extra layer of…
00:58:40.579 --> 00:58:44.579
Uh, security when your phone's something other than where it's normally at.
00:58:44.580 --> 00:58:47.535
And you can find this under the Privacy section.
00:58:47.535 --> 00:58:50.413
Um, something else you can do…
00:58:50.841 --> 00:58:55.841
And you can do this now with the iPhone. You don't need to…
00:58:55.998 --> 00:59:00.998
purchase any extra app. You can record a phone call.
00:59:01.973 --> 00:59:04.973
And to do that, if you look on the…
00:59:05.437 --> 00:59:07.437
Uh, right-hand, um…
00:59:07.638 --> 00:59:09.638
Um…
00:59:10.364 --> 00:59:16.364
display. There's, um, there's, right, there's a couple As that says AA,
and then right next to it are some
00:59:16.894 --> 00:59:18.894
concentric circles that look sort of like a target.
00:59:19.601 --> 00:59:21.601
That is the record call button.
00:59:21.602 --> 00:59:29.450
And these are available from Control Center, so you can be any… you 
can be doing anything on the phone, go up to the upper left… oh, upper right,
00:59:29.819 --> 00:59:33.819
pull it down and start recording a phone call.
00:59:34.715 --> 00:59:39.715
Um, well, actually, that records the screen, that does not record the
phone calls, so never mind.
00:59:39.711 --> 00:59:41.711
That records the, uh…
00:59:42.453 --> 00:59:47.453
screen, but I'm going to show you what that, uh, looks like.
00:59:49.035 --> 00:59:51.035
If you're recording a call.
00:59:51.396 --> 00:59:53.396
And as I recall…
00:59:54.436 --> 00:59:56.436
It's not going to, uh…
00:59:58.553 --> 01:00:00.553
create any noise, which is, um…
01:00:01.502 --> 01:00:08.502
a problem. So this, this thing that looks like a target down here, that
is the record call… that is the record screen.
01:00:08.503 --> 01:00:14.515
So, I tell it it's going to say, record the screen. I'm going to use
Siri to make the phone call.
01:00:14.516 --> 01:00:17.795
And I do that by pressing the side button,
01:00:17.975 --> 01:00:22.975
And it triggers Siri, and what I'm saying to Siri is,
01:00:22.984 --> 01:00:31.984
I'm telling it to call the U.S. Naval Observatory. The U.S. Naval
Observatory is in my phone book, otherwise it wouldn't work,
01:00:32.458 --> 01:00:37.458
Uh, it'll call the U.S. Naval Observatory, and I'll get a… they'll
answer the phone,
01:00:37.459 --> 01:00:43.589
After they answered the phone, I can then start recording the call.
You'll notice that
01:00:44.297 --> 01:00:49.297
it doesn't… you won't hear anything for quite a while, but eventually
you hear what it's saying.
01:00:49.475 --> 01:00:54.475
And that's because when it says it's recording the call, the very first
thing it does…
01:00:54.476 --> 01:00:56.995
is it says out loud,
01:00:57.647 --> 01:01:01.647
Uh, this call is being recorded so that the other party can hear it.
01:01:01.648 --> 01:01:05.644
And then after it makes that announcement, then it starts recording
the call.
01:01:05.644 --> 01:01:10.379
You'll also hear why I'm calling the U.S. Naval Observatory when you do this.
01:01:10.798 --> 01:01:12.798
Or at least I hope you figure it out.
01:01:15.184 --> 01:01:18.184
Here, I'm asking Siri to call the U.S. Naval Observatory,
01:01:18.318 --> 01:01:21.318
And it says, calling the U.S. Naval Observatory,
01:01:21.765 --> 01:01:23.765
And the U.S. Naval Observatory comes up,
01:01:23.765 --> 01:01:26.740
I set it on speaker so I can hear it,
01:01:27.539 --> 01:01:30.539
Then I go down to this button down below that says More,
01:01:30.955 --> 01:01:32.955
And…
01:01:33.632 --> 01:01:37.632
Eventually, it'll show you that I'm pressing the more button.
01:01:38.997 --> 01:01:40.997
And…
01:01:41.996 --> 01:01:43.996
I say, call recording,
01:01:45.194 --> 01:01:49.194
And… this call will be recorded, it's actually saying that.
01:01:49.578 --> 01:01:52.578
And… now it's recording the call.
01:01:53.738 --> 01:01:55.738
And you're not hearing anything,
01:01:55.803 --> 01:02:00.803
Because it's recording it, and it's putting it into my Notes application.
01:02:01.143 --> 01:02:06.143
Why does it put it into notes? Notes, among other things, can, uh…
01:02:06.432 --> 01:02:08.432
transcribe, um…
01:02:09.002 --> 01:02:15.002
audio recordings. So, it'll do voice transcriptions if you dump an
audio file into it.
01:02:15.376 --> 01:02:18.376
Now, this is what it sounds like.
01:02:18.934 --> 01:02:20.934
And I hope you'll be able to hear it.
01:02:22.857 --> 01:02:24.857
As soon as I can find out where it is.
01:02:26.592 --> 01:02:31.592
U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock at the Tone, Eastern Daylight Time.
01:02:31.592 --> 01:02:34.278
13 hours, 34 minutes, exactly.
01:02:36.098 --> 01:02:39.098
Universal Time, 17 hours, 34 minutes, 5 seconds.
01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:42.480
Now…
01:02:43.857 --> 01:02:45.857
Any idea why I called the Master Clock?
01:02:49.739 --> 01:02:54.739
I called the master clock because I knew it wouldn't refuse my call
if I was going to record it.
01:02:55.292 --> 01:03:02.292
So, I didn't require… it didn't require another human being, but I got
to talk to something, I got to talk to this recorded voice,
01:03:02.380 --> 01:03:06.380
The U.S. Naval Observatory is in Washington, D.C.,
01:03:06.939 --> 01:03:11.939
And it's an atomic clock that, among other things, your computer and
your iPhone
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:15.199
And everything else on the planet syncs up to.
01:03:15.867 --> 01:03:17.867
And it does it in universal time,
01:03:18.359 --> 01:03:20.359
Which is, uh, Greenwich Mean Time.
01:03:20.762 --> 01:03:26.762
And it then just adds or subtracts hours depending upon where you are.
01:03:26.908 --> 01:03:33.908
on the planet. So, that's why I call the Master of Clock. It's because
I didn't have to argue with it if I did it.
01:03:35.903 --> 01:03:37.903
So…
01:03:41.770 --> 01:03:48.770
You… I did… took a lot of screenshots to make this presentation. This is
how you take a screenshot on an iPhone.
01:03:49.238 --> 01:03:56.238
You press the volume up button in the side button at the same time,
and you release them. Don't hold them forever.
01:03:56.261 --> 01:03:58.261
Um, but just, uh…
01:03:58.878 --> 01:04:00.878
quickly press them, and it takes a screenshot.
01:04:01.662 --> 01:04:03.662
And you can do the same thing on the watch.
01:04:03.663 --> 01:04:08.723
If you press both buttons, there's a crown button, and then there's
a side button. If you press them both,
01:04:09.475 --> 01:04:11.475
At the same time, it'll take a screenshot of what's on the…
01:04:12.160 --> 01:04:16.160
watch. And these are two screenshots that I shot of the watch.
01:04:16.861 --> 01:04:18.861
the watch being a watch, and the other one showing the…
01:04:19.337 --> 01:04:22.337
Tides at Squim Bay. I have an app on my
01:04:22.671 --> 01:04:28.671
watch that shows me, on the watch, what the tides are at Squim Bay,
because I like to take
01:04:28.671 --> 01:04:33.539
photographs of the bay, when it's got water in it, and not when it's
just mud flats.
01:04:35.604 --> 01:04:37.604
And that was the wrong button to press.
01:04:43.437 --> 01:04:45.437
Why is it doing that?
01:04:55.741 --> 01:04:58.741
Oh. It's doing that because that's the last slide.
01:04:59.435 --> 01:05:01.435
Okay, that's a good reason for it to do that.
01:05:02.600 --> 01:05:04.600
And I've only used half an hour.
01:05:06.095 --> 01:05:08.095
So…
01:05:10.936 --> 01:05:12.936
Stop doing that.
01:05:16.393 --> 01:05:18.393
I went through that a lot faster than I thought I was going to.
01:05:20.513 --> 01:05:22.513
Any questions?
01:05:27.335 --> 01:05:29.335
A question you should have.
01:05:30.581 --> 01:05:34.581
is… how do I make a call on this using Siri?
01:05:34.883 --> 01:05:36.883
There are a couple requirements.
01:05:37.618 --> 01:05:41.618
You can only make a recall using Siri if that person is in your address
book.
01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:45.400
So if they're not in your address book, you can't call them.
01:05:46.495 --> 01:05:48.495
The other question you should have is,
01:05:48.496 --> 01:05:50.615
What if you have
01:05:51.636 --> 01:05:53.636
Uh, my spouse's name was Kathleen.
01:05:54.867 --> 01:05:59.867
There are Cathy's, Kathleen's, Catherine's, all kinds of different
variations of
01:05:59.969 --> 01:06:01.969
of, uh…
01:06:02.978 --> 01:06:04.978
of, uh, Kathleen out there.
01:06:05.117 --> 01:06:08.117
In order for me to be specific,
01:06:09.220 --> 01:06:15.220
There are two things you can do. One is if you put that person in your
favorites lists, um, then…
01:06:15.685 --> 01:06:18.685
It'll appear, if you look at the address book,
01:06:19.378 --> 01:06:23.378
for the phone, uh, your favorites are the people that you call all
the time.
01:06:23.399 --> 01:06:26.399
And it's not the same as your contacts, which are
01:06:26.976 --> 01:06:29.976
everybody else on the planet. If they're in your favorites,
01:06:31.322 --> 01:06:34.322
Kathleen's address and favorites was Kathleen, so I say,
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:37.960
If I said, call Kathleen, it would call Kathleen.
01:06:38.570 --> 01:06:43.570
If Kathleen has two numbers, and at one point Kathleen had 5,
01:06:43.570 --> 01:06:49.525
Because she was that kind of person. I also have to say which phone I
wanted to call.
01:06:49.526 --> 01:06:56.000
So, if I said, call Kathleen iPhone, I don't have to specify anything
other than
01:06:56.604 --> 01:06:59.604
Make sure that her contact says iPhone.
01:06:59.606 --> 01:07:06.743
rather than just mobile phone, or cell phone, or desk phone, or work
phone, has to say iPhone, which is one of the choices.
01:07:07.458 --> 01:07:10.458
They say, call Kathleen iPhone, it would call her iPhone.
01:07:10.459 --> 01:07:13.878
If it was somebody else, somebody named Rick,
01:07:14.690 --> 01:07:19.690
And I had 3 ricks, then I have to have the last name as well, and again,
if they have multiple phone numbers,
01:07:19.690 --> 01:07:24.598
It'll ask me which one to call, and I mention this because…
01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:29.378
If you can use your phone with your car in CarPlay,
01:07:30.229 --> 01:07:37.229
It's a really easy way to call people with your hands on the wheel,
and you're not distracted, you just say,
01:07:37.422 --> 01:07:39.422
Um…
01:07:39.983 --> 01:07:42.983
you tell a certain robotic voice to…
01:07:43.561 --> 01:07:49.561
call Kathleen, and it'll call Kathleen. It's a… it's a… it's… you
have to kind of think through in advance
01:07:50.355 --> 01:07:53.355
what Siri will ask in order to avoid…
01:07:54.396 --> 01:07:56.396
a bunch of back and forth.
01:07:57.018 --> 01:07:59.018
But it works extremely well.
01:07:59.110 --> 01:08:04.110
With CarPlay, it also works with directions, so you can say, uh,
direct…
01:08:04.111 --> 01:08:05.187
Can you ask?
01:08:05.807 --> 01:08:07.807
It…
01:08:07.875 --> 01:08:09.875
you can say,
01:08:10.441 --> 01:08:12.441
I think… hmm.
01:08:13.158 --> 01:08:15.158
Uh, you can say directions to…
01:08:15.884 --> 01:08:21.884
a hospital in Port Angeles. If you're distinctive enough, you can say
Olympic Medical,
01:08:23.142 --> 01:08:28.142
Um, I don't remember what the… Olympic Medical Hospital, Port Angeles.
It'll give you directions there.
01:08:29.223 --> 01:08:36.223
But if you say, directions to Chipotle, it'll say, do you want
Poulsbo? Do you want Port Angeles? Do you want Victoria?
01:08:36.997 --> 01:08:39.997
And you don't want to get into that argument with your…
01:08:40.771 --> 01:08:44.771
computer while you're going down the highway at 50 miles an hour, so…
01:08:45.400 --> 01:08:48.400
just kind of think through in advance what it is you want to do,
01:08:48.414 --> 01:08:50.414
And it's fairly smooth.
01:08:50.444 --> 01:08:52.444
Um…
01:08:53.183 --> 01:08:55.183
And if you've never used… if you have a…
01:08:55.500 --> 01:09:01.500
a, um, car that's capable of using CarPlay, I highly recommend that you
give it a shot.
01:09:01.501 --> 01:09:05.264
CarPlay comes in two versions, depending upon
01:09:06.023 --> 01:09:11.023
How old your car is. My car came with CarPlay, but it was wired CarPlay.
01:09:12.063 --> 01:09:27.063
So you have to plug the phone in every time. And I found out I didn't
like that because, uh, several times I would plug the phone into the
car in order to use it in the car, and I'd forget it was plugged into
in the car, and I go into the bank, and the bank says, uh,
01:09:27.602 --> 01:09:32.602
Could you give me your blah blah blah? And I looked for my phone,
and it's, I can't do that because it's in the car.
01:09:33.500 --> 01:09:36.500
So what I did is I got a dongle off of, uh…
01:09:36.500 --> 01:09:41.149
Amazon that plugs in, and it sets up a Bluetooth connection,
01:09:41.220 --> 01:09:43.220
between the car,
01:09:43.531 --> 01:09:49.531
And the, um, phone, so that the car can be sitting in my pocket and
still work with
01:09:49.531 --> 01:09:55.489
CarPlay. The dongles run around 50, 60 bucks, and…
01:09:55.490 --> 01:10:00.258
In my case, it was well worth it. The other advantage is that if you…
01:10:01.283 --> 01:10:04.283
If you had the Carplay… if you had your phone plugged into the…
01:10:04.871 --> 01:10:10.871
car, and you got out of the car, some people would come along, see that
there was an iPhone in the car,
01:10:11.068 --> 01:10:22.068
break into the car. It wouldn't do them any good, because mine's
password protected, and they could never use it, but I'd still be stuck
with a several hundred dollar bill because of the damage they did to
the car, so…
01:10:22.513 --> 01:10:26.513
Not having it visible in the car because it's in my pocket.
01:10:26.513 --> 01:10:28.426
was a good thing.
01:10:30.125 --> 01:10:32.125
Any questions?
01:10:35.980 --> 01:10:38.980
Is there anything you wanted to do with your phone that I didn't cover
in the past?
01:10:39.580 --> 01:10:41.580
3 months?
01:10:50.341 --> 01:10:52.341
Apparently…
01:10:52.561 --> 01:10:56.561
If you have the Gemini app, you can't use it with the…
01:10:56.561 --> 01:10:58.564
CarPlay.
01:10:59.684 --> 01:11:04.684
It, um… it won't put directions up on the map or anything like that.
01:11:06.443 --> 01:11:10.443
Um, CarPlay does work with Google Maps, with…
01:11:10.444 --> 01:11:12.340
Yeah, oh yeah, but not Gemini.
01:11:13.219 --> 01:11:15.219
the app… there's an app called Gemini.
01:11:15.220 --> 01:11:20.708
Yeah, but I think that Apple is waiting for their release of
01:11:21.322 --> 01:11:25.322
26.45. Apple apparently has an agreement
01:11:26.243 --> 01:11:30.243
it's been rumored, I don't really know, that they have an agreement with,
uh…
01:11:30.458 --> 01:11:32.458
with, uh, Google to have
01:11:32.777 --> 01:11:39.777
Google be the back end for some of… some of the things that Siri does.
I suspect that…
01:11:40.065 --> 01:11:50.065
they're having a painful negotiation. On the one hand, Google wants
access to Apple's 2 billion customers, but on the other hand,
01:11:50.791 --> 01:11:57.791
Apple doesn't want to give up their reputation for privacy and security.
So Apple wants to send
01:11:57.920 --> 01:11:59.920
Google tokens, which
01:12:00.100 --> 01:12:02.100
which don't tell them who's reusing
01:12:02.725 --> 01:12:08.725
the app, and Google probably wants more information, so they're probably
arguing about that.
01:12:09.943 --> 01:12:11.943
But once they've figured that out,
01:12:12.237 --> 01:12:19.237
Apple will probably just incorporate it into Siri, so you won't… you
wouldn't use the Gemini app, you'd probably just talk to Siri.
01:12:20.412 --> 01:12:24.412
Will that be 26.4, 26.5, or 27?
01:12:25.262 --> 01:12:29.262
I do not know. There is…
01:12:30.367 --> 01:12:39.367
There is, um, a lot of pressure for Apple to improve Apple intelligence,
and one way to do that is if it has Gemini in the back end, that's
one way to do it.
01:12:40.329 --> 01:12:44.329
And there's an awful lot of angst in Google's camp.
01:12:44.281 --> 01:12:50.281
Because they want access to more customers. There's a big AI war going
on right now.
01:12:50.661 --> 01:12:54.661
And of the ones that I played with, the ones that I'm happiest with,
01:12:55.351 --> 01:12:58.351
Adobe, uh, Firefly,
01:12:58.550 --> 01:13:04.550
And you have to be an Adobe customer to really use them, um, usefully.
01:13:04.551 --> 01:13:06.558
And the other one is Gemini.
01:13:06.708 --> 01:13:16.708
Uh, but with Gemini, what I don't like is the fact that Gemini keeps the
information that you type into it. With… if they have this
01:13:18.104 --> 01:13:23.104
agreement with Apple, and Apple anonymizes the information, then…
01:13:23.729 --> 01:13:28.729
I'd be much more comfortable playing with it. But in terms of Google,
I've done some clever things.
01:13:29.226 --> 01:13:34.226
The illustrations that I've used for these three… last three, uh, um…
01:13:35.385 --> 01:13:39.385
presentations that I've stuck up on the website. Those were done with, um…
01:13:40.121 --> 01:13:44.121
Google Gemini. I described what I wanted, and then it drew the picture.
01:13:44.390 --> 01:13:49.390
So, the old man trying to eat an iPhone, and the princess with the umbrella,
01:13:49.605 --> 01:13:52.605
And the iPhone's raining down on top of our… those were done with Gemini.
01:13:53.702 --> 01:13:55.702
Does it do better than the playground?
01:13:56.685 --> 01:13:58.685
Yes, it does, because it's, um…
01:13:58.685 --> 01:14:03.245
The playground is… gives you a fairly restrictive, uh…
01:14:04.222 --> 01:14:08.222
set of parameters, because it's trying to make sure you don't give it
anything
01:14:09.135 --> 01:14:15.135
confidential. So, for example, I did a… I'm not going to show it to
you, because my…
01:14:15.988 --> 01:14:23.988
Daughter would kill me. But I have a picture of my granddaughter that
I turned her into a Japanese princess. And my…
01:14:24.914 --> 01:14:29.914
granddaughter, uh, her father's English, her mother's an American,
she doesn't look the least bit…
01:14:30.185 --> 01:14:35.185
Japanese, but, um, playground turned into a Japanese, uh, princess.
01:14:36.199 --> 01:14:38.199
And it did a really, really good job.
01:14:39.142 --> 01:14:42.142
But all of the computing for that was done
01:14:42.866 --> 01:14:44.866
on Playground. It never went to Apple.
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:49.520
with… with Gemini,
01:14:51.331 --> 01:14:53.331
Gemini is capable of doing things that…
01:14:54.047 --> 01:15:00.047
it's not limited to just with your iPad or iPhone or Mac can do. And…
01:15:00.141 --> 01:15:02.141
Apple has it.
01:15:02.142 --> 01:15:04.472
So did it look… did it look more like a Photoshop of…
01:15:04.963 --> 01:15:06.963
of the photo, or…?
01:15:06.963 --> 01:15:17.794
It looked like a computer-generated image, a high-quality computer.
I mean, it had shading and everything, but it looked like my 
granddaughter.
01:15:17.932 --> 01:15:24.932
Um, as a Japanese princess. I even specified I wanted a blue, uh, kimono,
and I gave her a blue kimono.
01:15:26.273 --> 01:15:30.273
Um, so, you know, it was really quite well done.
01:15:31.307 --> 01:15:37.307
That's not to say that I disprove of what Playground is doing, but uh…
01:15:37.708 --> 01:15:40.708
That playground is trying as much as possible
01:15:40.709 --> 01:15:43.545
to do 100% of the work
01:15:43.546 --> 01:15:46.943
on your phone, or on your iPad, or on your…
01:15:47.027 --> 01:15:54.027
Mac. And because of that, it has access to your photos. So you say,
01:15:54.545 --> 01:15:58.545
use this photo, and it'll use that photo and turn it into something else,
01:15:58.546 --> 01:16:05.673
But it doesn't go beyond your computer. It's not… it's not sending it
up to Apple, so Apple never has a copy of that photo.
01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:07.920
Uh, with Gemini, I think…
01:16:08.344 --> 01:16:13.344
Apple wants those same kind of controls, but they also want you to be
able to
01:16:14.102 --> 01:16:20.102
send anonymized data up there. So, for example, if you had a… if you had
a plot to…
01:16:20.908 --> 01:16:25.908
defraud, uh, Bank of America of $100 billion. I suggest that you not
01:16:26.801 --> 01:16:28.801
tell Gemini that.
01:16:29.470 --> 01:16:33.470
And even if Apple anonymizes it, probably not a good idea, because
01:16:33.471 --> 01:16:39.369
Apple might not say where it came from, but Google's still going to
retain that information.
01:16:40.302 --> 01:16:42.302
So you have to be a little bit careful, but uh…
01:16:42.859 --> 01:16:44.859
The way Apple is doing their computer
01:16:45.342 --> 01:16:50.342
security and privacy is very impressive. And in fact,
01:16:51.102 --> 01:16:54.102
you… if you… I don't know if any of you have a Windows machine,
01:16:54.550 --> 01:16:59.550
But Microsoft is coming closer and closer to Apple's point of view.
01:16:59.550 --> 01:17:09.257
Because the, uh, they've realized that Apple's reputation is built on
being trustworthy, and people don't really trust Microsoft, so…
01:17:10.058 --> 01:17:12.058
The only way to change that is to…
01:17:12.366 --> 01:17:16.366
change how they approach privacy and security. And…
01:17:16.367 --> 01:17:17.612
Yeah, Hewlett Packard…
01:17:17.612 --> 01:17:23.126
is now selling their laptops with Linux in it instead of Windows.
01:17:23.472 --> 01:17:27.472
Linux is actually more insecure than Windows.
01:17:27.704 --> 01:17:29.704
Really?
01:17:29.704 --> 01:17:32.427
The reason why it's more ins… well, yes, because it requires a higher
degree of, uh,
01:17:33.788 --> 01:17:41.788
understanding of systems, uh, engineering and system security in order
for you to secure it. Linux is basically just a…
01:17:42.248 --> 01:17:47.248
It's a box of tinker toys, and you put it together. And most people
don't know
01:17:47.204 --> 01:17:50.204
how to build things with Tinker toys.
01:17:49.824 --> 01:17:54.824
So, which True Unix workstation that requires an IT security manager.
01:17:54.824 --> 01:17:59.284
Well, it's not really Unix, but it's Unix-like, yes. And if you don't
know…
01:17:59.803 --> 01:18:02.803
If you don't know Unix, then you're not gonna…
01:18:03.606 --> 01:18:05.606
get very far. Most, um…
01:18:05.607 --> 01:18:06.441
Right.
01:18:07.403 --> 01:18:09.403
you just can't get very far.
01:18:09.662 --> 01:18:11.662
Right.
01:18:11.663 --> 01:18:14.976
the way in which I see that people use it a lot on laptops.
01:18:14.888 --> 01:18:21.888
is they use it with a shell over the top of it, so the… the shell looks
like it's a GUI interface.
01:18:22.426 --> 01:18:26.426
And they push buttons, and they don't necessarily have to know commands,
but…
01:18:26.878 --> 01:18:34.878
If they don't know how to update it, then they're going to be just
constantly falling, uh, behind, and Linux doesn
01:18:35.188 --> 01:18:37.188
Oh, it doesn't.
01:18:37.189 --> 01:18:38.244
No.
01:18:39.961 --> 01:18:41.961
You can build something that'll do that, but…
01:18:42.860 --> 01:18:44.860
Now, it doesn't do automatic updates.
01:18:45.546 --> 01:18:50.546
Um, so… but Windows 11, as an example, adopted…
01:18:50.957 --> 01:18:59.957
Apple's idea of having a security chip, so there's a security chip in
Windows 11 laptops and desktops, and um…
01:19:01.126 --> 01:19:06.126
you can… you can screw with Windows 11 so that it doesn't require it,
but that's kind of…
01:19:07.172 --> 01:19:12.172
stupid. Uh, it's better not just buy a Windows machine and make sure it's
got a laptop.
01:19:13.273 --> 01:19:18.273
Uh, it's got this chip inside. So a lot of things that Apple has done
over the years, um,
01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:22.159
Microsoft has come around to thinking that maybe it's a good idea.
01:19:23.323 --> 01:19:25.323
And, um…
01:19:26.087 --> 01:19:30.087
that's what I think they're trying to do with their partnership with, uh…
01:19:30.804 --> 01:19:35.804
Google. But so far, all I've read is… all I know are rumors. I haven't
even talked to anyone
01:19:35.824 --> 01:19:37.824
high-up level, who might…
01:19:38.334 --> 01:19:42.334
Know more than I'd have. I just know what I read in the, uh…
01:19:43.025 --> 01:19:45.025
industry publications.
01:19:46.922 --> 01:19:49.922
And it's a… it's a complicated thing, because I've seen…
01:19:49.942 --> 01:19:51.942
As an example, um…
01:19:52.424 --> 01:19:54.424
This woman in, um…
01:19:55.857 --> 01:19:57.857
Oklahoma. Um…
01:19:58.801 --> 01:20:01.801
uploaded a bunch of documentation on her…
01:20:02.175 --> 01:20:05.175
divorce that she was contemplating.
01:20:05.925 --> 01:20:07.925
into one of the AIs.
01:20:08.134 --> 01:20:16.134
And her husband, who was afraid that his wife was cheating on him,
uploaded a bunch of stuff about it, too, and came back with references.
01:20:16.423 --> 01:20:18.423
To her divorce, um…
01:20:19.758 --> 01:20:25.758
application, and that was not something she'd told him about, because he
was, uh…
01:20:27.025 --> 01:20:32.025
rather abusive, and that's one of the problems that you have with the
current AIs, that they…
01:20:33.343 --> 01:20:36.343
Um, they cannot tell the truth from a falsehood.
01:20:37.343 --> 01:20:39.343
If you upload War of the Worlds,
01:20:39.963 --> 01:20:41.963
which was written in the…
01:20:43.003 --> 01:20:45.003
1910, something like that.
01:20:45.194 --> 01:20:47.194
It'll take it as gospel truth.
01:20:49.204 --> 01:20:51.204
So…
01:20:52.642 --> 01:20:55.642
Telling it the difference between what is real and what isn't real.
01:20:55.727 --> 01:21:00.727
Um, is sometimes difficult. What is private and what is not private?
01:21:01.484 --> 01:21:06.484
It has no sense… AIs have no concept of privacy at all.
01:21:07.578 --> 01:21:11.578
And the AI that we currently have isn't really even truly AI.
01:21:11.578 --> 01:21:17.706
It's… it's called Generative AI, which means you're using a computer to
help you generate stuff.
01:21:18.109 --> 01:21:21.109
But it's not autonomous AI.
01:21:21.087 --> 01:21:23.087
It can't think and…
01:21:23.830 --> 01:21:25.830
problem-solve and find new problems on your own.
01:21:26.552 --> 01:21:29.552
people, we think of problems to solve.
01:21:29.553 --> 01:21:33.586
That's why, when we're sitting in a doctor's office, we'll sit and play
solitaire.
01:21:33.587 --> 01:21:41.910
Why? Because we're bored stiff, and so we find a problem that we can
play with, even if it's solitaire or crossword puzzles and so on and
so forth.
01:21:42.006 --> 01:21:44.006
AI cannot currently do that.
01:21:44.163 --> 01:21:46.163
So it's… it's basically just…
01:21:46.585 --> 01:21:48.585
regurgitating things that we already know.
01:21:48.586 --> 01:21:54.433
And it can do a good job at, uh, if there's a service called Grammarly,
01:21:54.784 --> 01:21:59.784
that it's a free and a paid service. With Grammarly, it'll check your
spelling
01:22:00.203 --> 01:22:03.203
Uh, if you're typing a message in a web browser.
01:22:04.166 --> 01:22:09.166
They'll check your spelling and check your grammar, and say, that's
the wrong tense, and you need a comma there.
01:22:09.630 --> 01:22:11.630
does a really good job of that.
01:22:12.444 --> 01:22:16.444
Pages does that, Microsoft Word does that, a lot of things do that.
01:22:17.247 --> 01:22:19.247
That is not really…
01:22:20.528 --> 01:22:25.528
AI, and that's what most of the AI engines do today. They basically
parse language.
01:22:25.529 --> 01:22:27.612
They really can't have a, uh…
01:22:27.613 --> 01:22:34.316
a new thought. On the other hand, you can go into ChatGPT and tell it to
write a limerick. Say,
01:22:35.068 --> 01:22:38.068
Write me a limerick about leprechauns and…
01:22:38.446 --> 01:22:40.446
toadstools, and it'll do it.
01:22:41.344 --> 01:22:46.344
And… because it's just manipulating language, and it knows the rules for
language.
01:22:47.284 --> 01:22:56.284
And when it comes to rules for language, that's actually fairly clever.
The Japanese were the ones who worked on this the longest, because the
Japanese, to graduate from high school,
01:22:56.606 --> 01:22:59.606
You have to know 17,500
01:22:59.924 --> 01:23:01.924
Chinese characters.
01:23:02.506 --> 01:23:04.506
Plus, you have to know Romanji,
01:23:04.506 --> 01:23:06.530
And, uh…
01:23:06.530 --> 01:23:12.115
Hiragana and Katagana, which are two different syllabaries written in
Japanese characters.
01:23:12.047 --> 01:23:17.047
And you have to know Romanji. Romanji is Japanese in Roman characters.
01:23:17.850 --> 01:23:23.850
And reading a newspaper article, you'll see Chinese characters, hiragana,
katakana, and Romanji.
01:23:25.147 --> 01:23:30.147
This places a huge burden on graduating from school in Japan.
01:23:30.835 --> 01:23:37.835
But it almost is impossible when it comes to computers and typewriters.
If you go see a Japanese printing press,
01:23:38.126 --> 01:23:42.126
They were all manual, because there were so many different character
combinations.
01:23:43.065 --> 01:23:45.065
So, Japan Telegraph and Telephone
01:23:45.550 --> 01:23:49.550
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT.
01:23:49.551 --> 01:23:54.634
Started working on natural language processing, where you could talk to
01:23:54.634 --> 01:24:02.168
machines, and it would transcribe them. They started doing work on this
in the 70s, and when I was living in Japan in the 1980s, they gave some
01:24:03.114 --> 01:24:08.114
demonstrations, and I was very impressed with them. And the reason why it
was so important to the Japanese
01:24:08.993 --> 01:24:12.993
is that they didn't want to create a keyboard that had 20,000
01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:17.560
keys on it. So, if you could just talk to the computer, and it could 
turn it into
01:24:17.561 --> 01:24:19.726
written Japanese, that's a huge…
01:24:19.749 --> 01:24:25.749
benefit for them. So they really pressed hard for this. In the United
States, it was done by…
01:24:26.917 --> 01:24:33.917
Um… trying to remember the name of the company [Kurzwil]. It was a
gentleman who wanted to create, um…
01:24:33.849 --> 01:24:39.849
Systems for the blind, so that the blind could use telephones, and the
blind could write.
01:24:41.587 --> 01:24:44.587
Um, they could send things to fax machines and so on and so forth.
01:24:44.587 --> 01:24:53.620
And so he started doing natural language processing in English, so that
the blind could communicate with the outside world and get jobs and
so on and so forth.
01:24:53.620 --> 01:25:02.014
And that was the big push in the United States. So what we're seeing
today with what they call AI, it's really just a step above
01:25:02.637 --> 01:25:08.637
what they were doing in the 70s and 80s, because it's mostly with 
language processing.
01:25:08.638 --> 01:25:18.017
In my case, you'll notice what I've used it for are illustrations.
Why? Because I'm a terrible artist. If I can describe it, and it can
make a picture, that's great.
01:25:18.798 --> 01:25:25.798
But that's still… I'm the one who's coming up with the problem, and I'm
the one who's judging whether or not it's solved. It's not the computer.
01:25:26.515 --> 01:25:29.515
So, it's not really intelligence. It's a… it's a tool.
01:25:31.147 --> 01:25:33.147
End of my editorial here.
01:25:37.274 --> 01:25:40.274
So, so with that, I have a suggestion for next month.
01:25:43.778 --> 01:25:48.778
Um, about a conversation about AI and how to get started in it. Some of us
have
01:25:48.777 --> 01:25:53.777
No clue, um, and I really would like to learn a bit about it, but…
01:25:54.730 --> 01:25:57.730
But I don't know even how to get started, so I've…
01:25:57.731 --> 01:26:02.957
I messed around with GPT, or ChatGPT a tiny bit, and…
01:26:03.458 --> 01:26:08.458
perplexity, or something like that. I've messed around with that a little
bit, but I don't know what I'm doing.
01:26:09.002 --> 01:26:14.002
Well, I can… I'll give a… I'll give that some thought. Um…
01:26:14.513 --> 01:26:20.513
I'll give that some thought, but as some suggestions, um, if you're running macOS, uh,
01:26:21.392 --> 01:26:28.392
26, or iOS 26, or iPad 26, there is something on your machine somewhere
called Playground.
01:26:28.738 --> 01:26:33.738
And Playground is the image playground that Apple has, uh, set up.
01:26:34.542 --> 01:26:43.542
And just play around with that. All it can do is draw pictures. It comes
up with some ideas on general things you can do, and you can then type
in descriptions and
01:26:44.833 --> 01:26:51.833
Play with that a bit. The other thing to try, because it's reasonably safe, as long as you don't tell it… don't give it…
01:26:52.398 --> 01:26:57.398
personal information, is use Google's Gemini, and to get access to that,
01:26:58.233 --> 01:27:03.233
Just go into Google, into the search bar, and say, Google Gemini, and
they'll take you to a page
01:27:03.345 --> 01:27:05.345
And you can sit there and then…
01:27:05.370 --> 01:27:07.370
Uh, and type out
01:27:07.618 --> 01:27:13.618
questions that you want it answered, but the real fun comes when you…
when you want it to draw something.
01:27:13.619 --> 01:27:15.845
And to do that, you say,
01:27:15.870 --> 01:27:20.870
draw me a photo of a dragon eating a banana.
01:27:21.757 --> 01:27:30.757
And just sit back, and it'll give you different choices. How about
this one? How about this one? How about this one? And you pick the 
one you want, and next thing you know, you have a picture of a…
01:27:30.814 --> 01:27:35.814
dragon eating a banana. And the reason why I suggest Gemini is that
01:27:35.984 --> 01:27:39.984
it can handle text, which is nice, and it can also handle…
01:27:40.530 --> 01:27:44.530
um, things like, it'll make short video clips, and it can do…
01:27:44.531 --> 01:27:47.046
photographs. Speaking of which,
01:27:47.192 --> 01:27:52.192
Pages is also hooked into Apple Intelligence. So, if you…
01:27:52.660 --> 01:27:59.660
If you wrote a letter to somebody, and you think, well, that's kind
of redundant, and so on and so forth, you can ask, um…
01:27:59.661 --> 01:28:05.830
Apple Pages to go through and summarize it, or make it more concise,
and it'll do that.
01:28:07.028 --> 01:28:20.028
If you're… if you're running a Mac OS 26 right now, you can set it up
so that when it's… before it shows you the message, it'll give you a
little alert that's a summary of that message. And that's done with
Apple Intelligence.
01:28:20.127 --> 01:28:24.127
And that's happening right now, if you just set it up that way.
01:28:24.733 --> 01:28:30.733
Um, if in settings, there's a whole section there for Apple Intelligence.
It's its own little…
01:28:31.421 --> 01:28:38.421
menu entry, and you just go flip what other switches you want, and
it works with pages, it works with numbers,
01:28:38.326 --> 01:28:40.326
It works with, uh…
01:28:41.071 --> 01:28:48.071
Image Playground, uh, it works with Siri, um, it works with a lot of stuff
right now.
01:28:49.099 --> 01:28:55.099
Uh, it's just… it's really good on the text part. It's not so great on the
other parts.
01:28:57.011 --> 01:28:59.011
Oh, look…
01:28:59.012 --> 01:29:04.141
Very good. So that helps. I mean, uh, one of the things I've tried to do
is there's some apps associated with, uh,
01:29:04.948 --> 01:29:15.948
3D printing that I want to be able to describe something and have it
develop a model for me. And that does work, but say, for instance, you
tell it you want it to
01:29:16.356 --> 01:29:18.356
draw, um, a tugboat
01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:24.359
with heavy armament, you know, like rockets and missiles and that sort
of thing, it will.
01:29:24.603 --> 01:29:30.603
And it'll actually make a model out of it for you. But I haven't been 
able to figure out how to
01:29:30.604 --> 01:29:40.842
Um, make the instructions more concise. In other words, you know, after
you tell it you want rockets and guns and things, and it's got an idea
there,
01:29:42.164 --> 01:29:45.164
You know, I want to specify I want 4 rockets, you know?
01:29:45.281 --> 01:29:48.281
How do I add that on to what I've already done?
01:29:48.836 --> 01:29:57.836
Yeah, the best way to do that with most of the AIs right now is just 
repeat what you said before, but you add in more adjectives and adverbs
to say,
01:29:58.254 --> 01:30:04.254
a red tugboat, like with my… with my daughter. It's a photograph of my
daughter.
01:30:04.500 --> 01:30:10.500
And I said I wanted to be a Japanese princess, and it did something.
I said, well, I wanted to have a crown.
01:30:10.500 --> 01:30:15.747
Japanese princesses don't come with crowns, but if she was going to be
a princess, my English
01:30:16.452 --> 01:30:19.452
granddaughters gonna think she's gonna need a crown. So, uh…
01:30:19.736 --> 01:30:24.736
She has a crown, and one of the down that she was wearing to be
01:30:25.621 --> 01:30:27.621
blue, so I specified blue. So I just…
01:30:31.238 --> 01:30:33.238
Yeah.
01:30:33.239 --> 01:30:39.619
kept on refining my instructions until I got something that I liked.
And that's basically… that's how it works with all of these right now.
You just ask for the same thing, but just getting more and more descriptive.
And sometimes…
01:30:39.619 --> 01:30:44.487
You'll ask for something, and you say, that's terrible, and you just start
over again.
01:30:44.487 --> 01:30:47.560
Because, again, it… it's just a…
01:30:48.208 --> 01:30:50.208
It's just a program someplace, and…
01:30:50.810 --> 01:30:53.810
They can be remarkably stupid.
01:30:53.833 --> 01:30:55.833
Um…
01:30:55.995 --> 01:30:57.995
We had, um…
01:30:58.095 --> 01:31:06.095
a, um, thermostat. It was a thermostat for a building in Silver Spring,
Maryland, that I worked in.
01:31:06.782 --> 01:31:15.782
Uh, we didn't like the fact that the… you could be in different parts
of the building, you could, uh, roast in one part and freeze in another,
so they came up with a new
01:31:16.710 --> 01:31:19.710
thermostat system that was going to, um…
01:31:20.109 --> 01:31:23.109
treat the entire building properly, and so on and so forth.
01:31:24.084 --> 01:31:35.084
One slight problem. It was made in Europe by a major… by a major German
company, which you can probably guess just because it was a thermostat.
And it was set for centigrade.
01:31:35.929 --> 01:31:39.929
And so the first thing they did is, we want everything at 72 degrees.
01:31:39.926 --> 01:31:41.926
That was not a
01:31:42.611 --> 01:31:47.611
pleasant experience. Your three-quarters of the way to boiling at that
point.
01:31:48.339 --> 01:31:51.339
Um, and we didn't quite get to boiling, but um…
01:31:51.347 --> 01:31:54.347
It took them quite a while to figure out what was wrong.
01:31:55.036 --> 01:32:04.036
And it was hilarious, because I worked at a science agency. Everything
we did was run in Celsius. But the building engineer was not a scientist.
01:32:04.570 --> 01:32:06.570
So, uh, um…
01:32:07.822 --> 01:32:12.822
You know, they're just machines, and they do what you tell them to do,
even if it's stupid.
01:32:14.436 --> 01:32:19.436
Yeah, everything having to do with 3D printing is… I mean, you can convert
it to, uh…
01:32:19.639 --> 01:32:25.639
non-metric, but everything initially is done in metrics, so…
01:32:25.639 --> 01:32:30.727
I mean, I even have whole sets of metric screws and nuts and all that
stuff just
01:32:31.538 --> 01:32:34.538
for that stuff, so I don't have to convert and all that, so…
01:32:34.539 --> 01:32:40.612
Well, there are 8 billion people on the planet, and only 300 million
of them use English, so…
01:32:40.613 --> 01:32:42.437
Yeah, yeah.
01:32:42.437 --> 01:32:44.074
We're outvoted by humanity.
01:32:44.272 --> 01:32:46.272
Yep.
01:32:47.624 --> 01:32:49.624
Any other questions, comments?
01:32:50.706 --> 01:32:52.706
I have a question about the iPhone.
01:32:52.707 --> 01:32:54.608
Yes.
01:32:54.609 --> 01:32:59.527
I know that you can, without an Apple Watch, you can use the iPhone when
you go out to walk.
01:33:00.807 --> 01:33:02.807
It'll count your steps and all that sort of thing.
01:33:03.686 --> 01:33:05.686
Does it also generate a map
01:33:06.094 --> 01:33:08.094
My wife has a, uh,
01:33:08.205 --> 01:33:11.205
Apple Watch with her iPhone,
01:33:11.398 --> 01:33:13.398
And she can walk…
01:33:13.726 --> 01:33:16.726
or ride a bike, or do whatever, without the iPhone.
01:33:17.385 --> 01:33:20.385
And the watch will generate a map of where she went.
01:33:21.282 --> 01:33:26.282
Uh, it… it's probably not the watch that's generating the map, it's
probably an app, like Strava.
01:33:26.935 --> 01:33:28.935
can do that. It's…
01:33:28.935 --> 01:33:30.729
Nope, no apps like this, just Apple stuff.
01:33:32.229 --> 01:33:35.229
I don't know of anything that Apple has that'll generate a map.
01:33:35.985 --> 01:33:37.985
Well, I'm telling you that hers does.
01:33:37.985 --> 01:33:39.985
Okay, I'll have to…
01:33:39.986 --> 01:33:41.906
It's just… it's just part of the information that it has, you know.
01:33:42.068 --> 01:33:46.068
How many steps you took, how far you went, and all that, and then it has
a map.
01:33:46.575 --> 01:33:48.575
The traces where you went.
01:33:48.834 --> 01:33:50.834
Yeah, cuz…
01:33:50.834 --> 01:33:52.407
And you can… you can blow it up, and, you know, it'll show you…
01:33:53.769 --> 01:33:56.769
what streets you were on and all that, or what trails you were on, and
so forth.
01:33:57.076 --> 01:34:02.076
I just wondered if the… if the iPhone without an Apple Watch did that.
01:34:09.664 --> 01:34:11.664
Okay.
01:34:11.665 --> 01:34:12.886
Um, I don't believe that the watch itself has that capability, but I
will investigate. I do know that the app Strava…
01:34:13.550 --> 01:34:16.550
Um, which is spelled… how is it spelled?
01:34:18.649 --> 01:34:20.649
It's T-R-B-V-A.
01:34:20.650 --> 01:34:20.750
S-T-R-A-V-A. Um…
01:34:20.751 --> 01:34:21.945
Yes.
01:34:21.946 --> 01:34:23.907
It can track whether you're walking,
01:34:24.329 --> 01:34:27.329
riding a bike, riding an e-bike, running,
01:34:27.841 --> 01:34:32.841
skiing, all kinds of different activity, and it all… it does draw a map.
01:34:33.057 --> 01:34:42.057
Uh, that's what Strava does, and it'll do that whether you have it
as a phone in your pocket, or you're using an Apple Watch. Um, but I'm
not…
01:34:42.331 --> 01:34:46.331
aware of anything inherent to the watch that'll create a map.
01:34:47.251 --> 01:34:50.251
But like I said, I will… I will do some investigation.
01:34:50.252 --> 01:34:52.844
No, I don't… I don't know if it's the watch or the phone, but it
01:34:52.969 --> 01:34:55.969
But wherever the… wherever she goes with the watch,
01:34:56.288 --> 01:35:00.288
Without the phone, it's still… there's a map associated with it when you
look at
01:35:00.676 --> 01:35:02.676
Well…
01:35:02.677 --> 01:35:03.506
You know, when you look at what she did for the workout.
01:35:03.507 --> 01:35:13.940
Yeah, well, if you have Strava on your watch, which I do, and I don't
have my phone with me, sure enough, it'll track what I'm doing very
accurately and give me a map
01:35:14.653 --> 01:35:19.653
And also tell me the elevation, whether I went up 200 feet, all kinds
of stuff.
01:35:19.654 --> 01:35:19.963
Right, right.
01:35:20.718 --> 01:35:23.718
Um, but that's… that's Strava doing that work. It's not, uh…
01:35:24.069 --> 01:35:26.069
It's not the Apple Watch by itself.
01:35:26.702 --> 01:35:28.702
Well, like I said, I don't know…
01:35:29.086 --> 01:35:31.086
I don't know whether it's the…
01:35:33.485 --> 01:35:35.485
Yeah, it doesn't…
01:35:35.486 --> 01:35:36.274
She doesn't have the phone with her, so the watch is recording all that
stuff, but then
01:35:35.890 --> 01:35:39.890
The watch is recording it because it has an app on there doing that work.
01:35:39.890 --> 01:35:40.948
Yeah, but then you look in the Apple…
01:35:41.104 --> 01:35:43.104
you know, the little Apple health thing with the
01:35:43.829 --> 01:35:47.829
circles the rings. You look in there for the summary,
01:35:48.064 --> 01:35:50.064
And there's a map…
01:35:50.908 --> 01:35:54.908
As part of whatever the activity was, whether it was riding a bike or…
01:35:55.595 --> 01:35:57.595
running or walking, or canoeing, or…
01:35:58.036 --> 01:36:00.036
Huh.
01:36:00.036 --> 01:36:01.345
But especially, you know, especially walking or hiking,
01:36:01.906 --> 01:36:03.906
It has the… it shows the map.
01:36:06.089 --> 01:36:09.089
Well, I haven't seen that, but I will look.
01:36:09.313 --> 01:36:11.313
Because if…
01:36:11.735 --> 01:36:15.735
If it'll do that without using Strava, that's fine with me.
01:36:17.887 --> 01:36:19.887
I will… I will investigate.
01:36:19.721 --> 01:36:21.721
Okay, thank you.
01:36:21.722 --> 01:36:23.608
Does Strava have a monthly thing?
01:36:23.770 --> 01:36:27.770
They have… you can get a free account, but it's really a trial account.
01:36:27.996 --> 01:36:33.996
Uh, then it doesn't cost you anything, but it really wants you… yes,
they really try really hard to…
01:36:35.069 --> 01:36:37.069
have you spend money. It depends upon…
01:36:37.662 --> 01:36:41.662
If you think about it, if you had a gym membership, it'd be a lot more
than Strava, so…
01:36:42.459 --> 01:36:48.459
It's not a bad deal, because it'll tell you a lot more than the guy that
you see at the gym.
01:36:54.855 --> 01:36:56.855
Where on the Apple Watch do you access
01:36:57.060 --> 01:37:01.060
you know, that information that your wife gets, which is the little icon
that you would tap.
01:37:01.901 --> 01:37:06.901
Listen, it's not… you don't… well, I don't know if you can access it on
the Apple Watch or not.
01:37:07.555 --> 01:37:09.555
Somehow I've lost the…
01:37:10.576 --> 01:37:12.576
But when she comes back,
01:37:13.418 --> 01:37:15.418
I can… I usually take the phone line
01:37:16.137 --> 01:37:20.137
hiking while she's going somewhere else with only her watch.
01:37:20.855 --> 01:37:22.855
On the phone, you look at that…
01:37:24.668 --> 01:37:28.668
I don't know if it's called the Health app, but it's the one with the
three circles, like…
01:37:28.668 --> 01:37:30.674
You know, the activity rings.
01:37:30.675 --> 01:37:30.812
That's activity.
01:37:31.238 --> 01:37:33.238
Yeah, and it'll give a summary of…
01:37:33.896 --> 01:37:35.896
what… how many steps she took, and…
01:37:36.902 --> 01:37:39.902
and have them, you know, what her heart rate was, all that kind of stuff.
But also, there's a map.
01:37:41.153 --> 01:37:46.153
Uh, I've been using the activity for years, and I've never seen a map.
01:37:46.897 --> 01:37:48.897
It's there.
01:37:48.897 --> 01:37:49.546
But again, I will…
01:37:49.546 --> 01:37:55.795
I agree with him, because I've left my phone behind a couple times when
I went biking or walking,
01:37:55.766 --> 01:37:57.766
And I use the workout
01:37:58.127 --> 01:38:00.127
A little workout button on my watch.
01:38:00.433 --> 01:38:05.433
And it does make a map, and when you come back and look at your phone,
there's the map and the whole detail of…
01:38:05.547 --> 01:38:08.547
your heart rate, your pace, all that stuff.
01:38:08.547 --> 01:38:10.591
And it has a map. Hmm.
01:38:10.591 --> 01:38:10.695
Yeah.
01:38:10.696 --> 01:38:12.280
Yep.
01:38:12.949 --> 01:38:17.949
Yeah, and she uses that workout thing where, you know, it counts down
3, 2, 1, and…
01:38:17.963 --> 01:38:19.963
Right.
01:38:19.963 --> 01:38:20.197
starts to work out on that, yeah.
01:38:20.027 --> 01:38:22.027
Yeah.
01:38:22.027 --> 01:38:23.894
Well, I will investigate.
01:38:23.830 --> 01:38:25.830
I wonder if this is the, um…
01:38:26.252 --> 01:38:28.252
activity plus…
01:38:29.019 --> 01:38:32.019
Um, instead of just the regular activity.
01:38:33.272 --> 01:38:35.272
Anyway, I will… I will investigate, because this is…
01:38:35.931 --> 01:38:38.931
a worthwhile question to investigate.
01:38:39.675 --> 01:38:41.675
Okay.
01:38:41.675 --> 01:38:42.825
Anything else?
01:38:43.799 --> 01:38:47.799
So should we send… are we gonna send you suggestions for next month, or
are we gonna do a…
01:38:48.656 --> 01:38:51.656
The rendering images in AI.
01:38:51.657 --> 01:39:00.662
Why don't you send me suggestions anyway? Because, again, I'm going on a
trip between now and then, and I don't really know how much
01:39:01.070 --> 01:39:03.070
time I'll have to prepare.
01:39:03.435 --> 01:39:05.435
Okay.
01:39:05.435 --> 01:39:06.352
Um, and I'll probably go with whatever's easy.
01:39:07.276 --> 01:39:10.276
Plus, we need a president, and we need a treasurer.
01:39:11.450 --> 01:39:13.450
So, think about volunteering.
01:39:16.157 --> 01:39:18.157
And with that, thank you.
01:39:18.157 --> 01:39:19.324
I had… I had one question.
01:39:18.934 --> 01:39:20.934
Yeah.
01:39:20.934 --> 01:39:21.486
Uh, real quick, maybe, uh…
01:39:21.487 --> 01:39:26.952
When you do a Google search using Mac OS26 or iOS26,
01:39:26.985 --> 01:39:31.985
Does it actually use Gemini to give you the answer?
01:39:32.435 --> 01:39:37.435
It has… the Gemini can give a summary at the top, unless you go through
01:39:37.829 --> 01:39:42.829
and tell it, Gemini, that you don't want it to do that. It'll give you a 
Gemini summary of
01:39:43.556 --> 01:39:45.556
What it found. But that's not…
01:39:45.556 --> 01:39:49.304
that's not really the search. The search results are below that.
01:39:49.751 --> 01:39:52.751
But it does kind of give you a Gemini summary.
01:39:52.752 --> 01:40:02.380
Yes, and I'm a little… I always ignore that, because a lot of times, the
Gemini picks up what it has heard, which is not necessarily…
01:40:02.971 --> 01:40:04.971
accurate. But it's been…
01:40:05.355 --> 01:40:09.355
widely reported as an example, um, they, uh…
01:40:10.668 --> 01:40:13.668
Uh, there was a news story earlier this week about the, um…
01:40:13.668 --> 01:40:22.659
USS Gerald Ford got hit by a missile and caught on fire. The USS Gerald
Ford was not hit by a missile. It did catch on fire. The fire was in the
laundry room.
01:40:23.370 --> 01:40:26.370
So, part of that was true, but…
01:40:27.425 --> 01:40:36.425
All of the initial reporting said that the fire was by missile, so for a
short period of time, Gemini was telling people that there was a fire
aboard the, uh…
01:40:37.198 --> 01:40:45.198
that was caused by a missile strike. And it took a while for it… for Gemini
to decide that that was not true.
01:40:45.813 --> 01:40:48.813
But it was widely reported. And again,
01:40:50.015 --> 01:40:54.015
Google is basically a search engine. It reports.
01:40:54.190 --> 01:40:56.190
what people say.
01:40:57.132 --> 01:41:03.132
I won't give you the details, but there was a senator from Pennsylvania
who had a very…
01:41:03.671 --> 01:41:07.671
Uh, he had a history of saying really nasty things about…
01:41:07.672 --> 01:41:13.355
Uh, homosexuals. And so, a group of people got together and associated…
01:41:13.640 --> 01:41:17.640
His last name with an obscene act.
01:41:17.641 --> 01:41:23.817
And Google started reporting that, oh yeah, that means, and it was this
obscene act.
01:41:24.672 --> 01:41:26.672
So it's kind of crowdsourced…
01:41:27.894 --> 01:41:32.894
revenge, I guess? Uh, because a Google doesn
01:41:33.556 --> 01:41:35.556
amasses it and says, okay,
01:41:35.556 --> 01:41:39.399
based upon the wealth of data I have, this must be…
01:41:39.754 --> 01:41:42.754
the answer. As an example.
01:41:43.533 --> 01:41:46.533
going to Google, asking for pictures of an airplane.
01:41:46.534 --> 01:41:48.616
And it'll give you lots of pictures of an airplane.
01:41:48.617 --> 01:41:52.369
Google is absolutely, positively blind.
01:41:53.740 --> 01:42:00.740
Why is it coming back with those pictures of airplanes? It's because
somebody took a photograph and said, this is, and describes the plane.
01:42:01.736 --> 01:42:07.736
And that's what the metadata on websites has done. It says, you know,
this is a picture of this, uh,
01:42:07.731 --> 01:42:09.731
RC15…
01:42:10.544 --> 01:42:18.544
stage for looking at pressure in a boiler. And so you look up the RC15,
and there's a picture of it. Did Google know that? No.
01:42:18.545 --> 01:42:26.458
They described the picture, and Google read the description and says, oh,
this is attached to that photo, so that must be what it looks like.
01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:32.880
Google doesn't know what airplanes look like. Google doesn't know what
whales look like. Google doesn't know what you look like.
01:42:33.182 --> 01:42:39.182
But you can go into Google, probably type in your name, and it'll come
back with a photograph, because somebody took a photograph of you,
01:42:39.835 --> 01:42:42.835
and put it up on the web, Google search that page and said, ah,
01:42:42.930 --> 01:42:44.930
That's what he looks like.
01:42:46.055 --> 01:42:49.055
If you type in my name in Google,
01:42:49.330 --> 01:42:53.330
You'll get my photo, but you'll also get a lot of other photos.
01:42:53.369 --> 01:42:56.369
a lot of those other photos were photos that I took.
01:42:57.208 --> 01:43:02.208
Because I'd be on a magazine editor and a newspaper editor, taken lots
of photos, had my byline.
01:43:02.675 --> 01:43:04.675
So, it comes back and says, oh, yeah!
01:43:04.675 --> 01:43:07.875
This photograph of a bookshelf is Lawrence Charters.
01:43:08.748 --> 01:43:10.748
Because Lawrence Charters took that photo.
01:43:12.404 --> 01:43:14.404
Gotcha.
01:43:14.404 --> 01:43:15.873
So, that's… that's how it works.
01:43:19.473 --> 01:43:22.473
Anyway, have a nice night.
01:43:23.042 --> 01:43:25.042
Yep, thank you.
01:43:25.042 --> 01:43:25.906
Yeah, thank you, Lawrence. Thank you.
01:43:25.907 --> 01:43:27.156
Thank you.
01:43:27.157 --> 01:43:28.526
Thank you.