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Hey there and welcome to a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 1073FM and AM580 Orlando's News and Talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes sitting here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore.
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until 7 p.m.
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And now for David Levitt.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg, and thanks everybody for listening to yet another edition of Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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So happy to come to you on this Sunday morning.
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And you know, the show airs a new show every Saturday from 2 p.m.
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to 3 p.m.
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and every Sunday from 8 a.m.
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to 9 a.m.
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And so if you missed yesterday's show, you can go to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link in the upper right hand corner, and you can hear that show in its entirety.
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And we talked a lot about the NVIDIA scandal that's going on, still going on right now, and where that stood yesterday.
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And so you that would be a major reason to you might want to listen to the show, but besides the fact that the new Windows update that came out, we talked a lot about that.
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What that means is for you know finally, you know.
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Well updates.
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Microsoft came out with a cool update.
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It's not just security flaw updates, right?
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There's a couple cool features that they came out with.
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So we talked all about those features on yesterday's show.
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So you can catch that on that podcast link and on the Refresh Computers homepage.
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So today we're going to talk about now you I'm sure by now you've probably heard about Amazon Amazon Rings.
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You know, Amazon owns the ring brand, right?
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And so they have a new webcam that flies around in your in your house.
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That's the only way we can describe it, is just a flying webcam in your home, kind of thing.
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Right.
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Very interesting.
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Kind of kind of like a drone.
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They're not available right now, though, by the way.
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You can you can go to Amazon, they're 250 bucks.
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You can go to Amazon and you can select to be notified when they are available.
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So it sounds like kind of a cool thing.
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It'll fly around and it'll you know do you do your security thing if it doesn't crash into a wall, hopefully.
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That's that's my concern.
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Yeah.
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And from what I understand, it it flies back to its base so it can charge itself.
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It was like a roomba in the air.
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It's kind of like a roomba, yeah.
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But in the air.
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Yeah.
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So we'll talk about that.
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Plus, you know, the they also came out what is not so much in the news, but it's kind of a cool, it's a new wheeled robot, ring robot that you can deploy in your business or your, you know, I guess your home if you wanted to also.
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So that one is a roomba.
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So that so yeah, that one's kind of like a roomba.
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So it's you know, it's it's kind of cool.
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So we'll be a little bit more in detail in that about those two things in just a minute.
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But in the next segment after this one, we're gonna talk about Google's new pixel tag.
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So you may be familiar with or heard of Apple's AirTag.
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And I don't know, I thought I saw somewhere where Apple was discontinuing the Air Tag, so we'll have to look that up to make sure.
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But so but Google's come out with their own type of air tag, and we'll talk about that and what it means.
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And we'll then talk into Gemini again, you know, coming to Apple CarPlay, so which is kind of cool.
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Uh yesterday we talked about Google integrating more with Apple devices in other ways, but this now they're going to be going into Apple CarPay as CarPlay.
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It'll be accessible there.
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And then we'll end the show today with some holiday PC cleanup tips for you to get those computers running as efficient as possible.
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So back to the ring cams.
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The ring roombas.
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The ring roombas.
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Yeah.
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So it's a flying indoor camera.
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Again, 250 bucks with shipping included, because it's, you know, Amazon, right?
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It has records 2K video, by the way.
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So not bad, not bad.
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And has a can rotate 360 degrees, has a built-in LED lights, so I guess it lets people know it's recording stuff.
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Ring says the camera is off while it is docked, by the way.
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The official pages also note that it has not yet been FCC authorized.
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So maybe that's why you can see it on the Amazon website right now, but you can't buy it yet.
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That's pretty important for those uh drone-based devices these days.
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So well, yeah, it is uh depending on your mindset, but yeah.
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SCC ruling for an indoor, I guess you could fly it outside if you wanted to.
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It's called an indoor device, but why can't you use it outside?
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You probably could.
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So it's a pretty cool device.
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I did go on Amazon, by the way, Greg, and checked out all the features.
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And I think I might give it a shot just because I'm a nerdy guy and I just want to see how it works.
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I don't know that I'll end up ever using it.
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I don't have a ring device in my whole house.
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I have I use Blink, I use that system.
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So yeah, it does it won't integrate with what I already use.
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And that would be a plus, I guess, to use it if if you already have ring capable devices that integrates with all those, you know, somehow.
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And so, but yeah, I'll probably get one.
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You know, when when I do, I maybe I'll share, you know, my experiences here on Tech Talk so you can so you can get a get get my opinion on whether it's worth it or not.
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Yeah, I'd love to hear the review on that.
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I think the the$250 price tag, that's right about where I would expect a decent end drone to kind of sit, especially something that's also camera equipped, like it this one's saying for your like uh home security and things like that.
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Right, especially you know, if it has like motion sensing detection and all that stuff, and and it could be kind of cool.
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I don't know about flying it around in your business if you have an alarm system.
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I don't know that unless you have an AI-enabled alarm system that can that can say uh ignore the drone.
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I mean that's that's a possibility.
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Right, that's a good point.
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That is a very good point.
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No.
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I would be uh I would be interested to see just kind of how how well this integrates with your system.
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I also see in here that it says that it can link up with your other portions of your ring system and go to those portions when they triggered something.
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So let's say you have a doorbell on the front and a camera in your backyard.
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If it notices that there's movement at the front door, it can go to like maybe a window or something that's above that door so you can see an additional view, and then somebody triggers the outside back door, you another window view of the backyard to kind of see what's going on.
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Oh, I wonder how well that works.
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That'd be interesting to see.
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I just had the thought that would be kind of creepy.
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You go and ring somebody's doorbell, and there's a little window next to the side, and you see this little robot like flying looking at you, these all these LEDs flashing.
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Oh, you're right.
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Yeah, you're right.
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It did say it has a lot of LEDs.
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It feels very terminatory at that point, right?
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Oh, it's you know, that that could be uh deterrent too, you know, a theft deterrent, you know, somebody trying to break in your house.
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They they see this thing flying around, you know, they'll have to bring fly swatters or something.
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Or baseball bets.
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This is I I I and I like the idea of the drone.
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I think I like the idea of the rover cam even more.
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So get it.
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Me too.
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Let's get into that one a little bit more.
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That one I I think that one is available right now.
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It's a thousand bucks, though.
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So I don't know if I would want to go out and try that one for a thousand bucks.
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But so it's on wheels.
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It's basically a robot on wheels that will roll around.
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We talked about Roomba, kind of like a Roomba, right?
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It goes around and it will go around in a set pattern.
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It'll it'll go into different rooms if there's a ability to go into different rooms.
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I don't think it can climb stairs or anything like that.
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I don't know that it I don't think it
could like push a button on an elevator and go up the elevator.
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Probably not.
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I don't know.
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It says that it has a periscoping camera on it.
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So I don't know.
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I mean, if it if it has an actuating arm, you could if you're controlling it, maybe.
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I don't know.
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That's interesting.
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Yeah, well, that's that's probably going to be a future model, I'm sure.
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We're giving them ideas as we're doing the show.
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That's right.
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But this thing is kind of cool though.
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It does record up to 4K, and it also self-docks like the the drone does that the that they came out with at Ring, and so it'll charge itself back up like a like a Roomba does now, if you're familiar with that.
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And so it provides all that extra security if you want.
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It patrols, investigates.
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I mean, again, it can stream up to 4K video.
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The adjustable Periscope camera is kind of cool.
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Yeah, I kind of like that.
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I wonder if you can control it.
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Talk about that being scary.
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All of a sudden you just see a camera popping up from behind a desk or something like that.
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And one of my favorite features of this new rover is the siren.
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It has a loud siren that'll go off if you, you know, under certain circumstances, I would imagine you'd have to program it to go off it depending on what's going on, right?
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Right.
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And so it's pretty cool.
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And a light tower, so it'll you know, flashlights, sound a siren.
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Pretty nice.
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Pretty intense.
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Pretty intense.
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For a thousand dollars, honestly.
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I mean, with all those details, it's actually probably not too bad of a price for added security throughout your house or your business.
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I think that's really where this is aimed at, right?
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Is more yeah, this is targeted more to businesses, and so I I would imagine something like a warehouse this would work very well in.
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But again, you'd have to wonder about your current alarms, your motion sensors and your alarm system.
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Right.
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Because obviously this thing can't be setting that off.
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Or maybe it can be still.
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This is would be a way I would imagine that it would be used.
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It's not roaming around all night long.
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It's just and it's dock.
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And if an alert happens, it will roll out and investigate.
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Because now your alarm is already going off.
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Since it's been triggered, it can that that makes sense to be activated.
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Yeah, so this will go out now and take a look at what's going on in the area where the alarm is coming from.
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I would hope that you'd be able to program something like that in this.
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So two-way audio too.
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So, you know, you can you know, stop thief.
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You know, you can right, you can shout at people, you can do stuff.
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Just shouting at people through your roving security camera.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Uh, another part of this that I do like, and they mention it in both of these, is that when they are a part of their docking system, they're off.
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So they're not recording, they're not with with the microphones turn off, the cameras turn off.
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In this kind of age of where everybody's kind of skeptical of their list their devices all around the house.
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Yeah.
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I think that's a I think that's a good feature that they're pointing out for those.
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And and again, I they have an activation mode where they where they wake up, they they come out of sleep mode, depending on what's going on, what triggers them.
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And I would hope that in the settings somewhere there's there's you know that you can set up specifically what would set them, you know, get them to activate themselves and to to roll out or fly out, whatever the case may be.
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So Ring says that the software maps the space in the in in your area.
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It's it does suggest uh patrol points.
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So that's another cool idea.
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I would imagine it's kind of useless unless it's going to be able to do that kind of thing automatically.
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You wouldn't want to have to spend hours setting this thing up.
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So you let kind of let this thing go and it will come back and suggest to you the uh patrol points, you know, where it should patrol where it, you know, and how it can get there.
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It navigates around obstacles, of course.
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Hopefully, I did see a YouTube video of somebody at Ring demonstrating this to a
reporter and it crashed into a wall.
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So there are bugs.
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There are always bugs.
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I I mean my my Roomba crashes into the wall all the time, too.
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So I would I I I like the idea of this.
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I just wish that you could maybe I wonder if you can just attach a vacuum cleaner to the bottom of it so that way you can get you know the best of both worlds.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's dual dual use.
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You gotta use it while you got it, right?
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That's right.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I don't think it has a towing feature though.
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That would that would be kind of cool.
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Yeah, put put maybe attach a little wagon to it, put your your your grandkids in it, and let it let them patrol the little warehouse.
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So, you know, I guess and and the idea is that you know, with the flying one though, it is that it can actually it it will see more and more spaces than you could with a fixed camera.
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Even a fixed camera that that has, you know, that that can pivot by itself.
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Right.
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The the the drone will obviously be able to get into places and see things that your cameras just you're no matter how you angle the cameras, unless you have you know 50 cameras or something in a small space, you're not going to be able to get that.
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With the flying one, you'll be able to.
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And again, like you mentioned, if you wanted to get all of those views, you'd need something like 50 cameras.
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This is$250 to cover what would be how much do each of those individual Amazon cameras cost?
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Oh, that's a good point, Greg.
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I didn't think of that one.
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Quite the cost savings if you've got something that's able to kind of fill that gap.
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So instead of having four, five, or six cameras, maybe just the one flying camera that can patrol everything.
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I my other question, too, uh with the with the flying camera, since we're back on that one, is the does it have a droning sound like a lot of these drones do?
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Like if you hear it launch, do you hear that throughout the area?
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I'm not sure.
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That's one of the reasons I want to get one and test it.
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Yeah.
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And we can probably do some research and find that out without testing it.
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But
I'm just uh that was something I was wondering about too, because you know, drones are loud, they're noisy.
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Right.
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So if you if you've ever used a dr regular drone and you're and you're filming something while you're flying, they make a lot of noise, and that noise comes over in the video.
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Right.
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So hopefully they've uh figured out a way to make this quiet.
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Quieter.
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Quieter, because it's gonna make a little bit of noise, I would imagine.
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Sounds like it'd be more fun to test it.
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So I think we should test it, Dave.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna use uh Dave's credit card and we're gonna go ahead and uh but coming up, we're gonna continue our talk on some of the new uh Gemini uses that are coming to Apple CarPlay.
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We'll talk more about that coming up on the other side.
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Hey there and welcome back to a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 1073FM and AM580 Orlando's news and talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes sitting here with David Levitt, President and Founder of Refresh Computer Superstore.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore by calling that free tech support hotline at 407-478-8200.
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Or if you have a comment during the show, we'd love to hear it.
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Use that open mic feature inside the WDBO app.
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And now back to Dave.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg, and thanks everybody for listening to Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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If you missed the last segment, we talked about the new ring flying camera, for lack of another word.
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I don't think they call it a drone, right, Greg?
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I I think that that terminology is is out of their description of the product.
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I'm pretty sure.
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Okay.
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And so it's a it's a flying camera.
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Drone.
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It's a drone.
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Inside your house.
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And we talked about Ring's new rover robot that is uh available now that can like a ro it's a robot.
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It's on wheels and it and it's like a track, I think.
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It's like a fast track, like these tractor tracks, and that it it'll go around your your warehouse or wherever you want to put it, I guess, and do some security updates for you.
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Checks, you know, keep it there for for whatever reason you would want to have it there, mostly for security.
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I was gonna say, don't let us don't let us restrict you.
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You can do whatever you want to with your$1,000 rope.
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That's right.
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So if you missed that, you can go to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link in the upper right-hand corner.
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You'll be able to catch this show in its entirety and all about that segment.
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And you can also listen to yesterday's show and going back five years now.
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We've been recording these shows only the last three weeks, though, in video.
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So you can listen to us and watch us for the last three weeks if you want to.
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And uh these uh go out to all the popular podcast mediums that are out there, the main one that we use being YouTube.
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Yeah, so now let's get into why and why it's a great thing finally that Gemini is coming to Apple CarPlay.
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So, yeah, I think people have been waiting for this for quite some time if you are on the you know Google's Gemini platform, right?
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And now finally being able to connect your device through Apple CarPlay is a big hurdle for a lot of people.
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It's been one of those strange things that Apple's kind of had trouble with is kind of integrating some of these AI tools into their Apple CarPlay uh universe.
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Right because they really haven't developed their own yet.
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So they've been trying to partner, and we talked a little bit about how they partnered with Muse for their watches yesterday.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Well, now they're going back to Gemini, the one that they we we always thought that they were going to be partnering with in the first place.
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That's right.
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So now, you know, if you are a you know Gemini user, if you're on the Google platform, you're you can have Gemini on your car screen, right, instead of only going through Google Maps, which is kind of cool.
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So finally that they did that, and they just announced that on November 11th.
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So that was pretty big, pretty big update for for them to be able to take for Apple CarPlay now to be able to integrate the Gemini into CarPlay.
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So And it makes things so much easier.
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You can do it.
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You can navigate much easier, ask it to tell ask it to give you directions, tell
it where you're going.
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I feel like Siri has missed a lot on of the on a lot of those recently, especially it feels like Apple's just kind of given up on Siri with updates, it seems like in the past.
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Possible.
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And you know, one of the frustrations that I've had with Apple CarPlay is, you know, that most people don't have this issue, and you probably don't even realize it.
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But when you connect your phone to CarPlay, it's using your Wi-Fi.
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It doesn't show that you're using your Wi-Fi.
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It the little Wi-Fi symbol doesn't come up because it assumes that you're not around the Wi-Fi.
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It uses that Wi-Fi.
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And if you've ever using it, uh Apple CarPlay, and you get to a place that automatically connects your Wi-Fi, you notice that your Apple CarPlay disconnects.
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And that's why, because it can only be connected to one Wi-Fi thing at a time.
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And so that's a big frustration that that I've had, which is one of the reasons I don't, I just I just don't use Apple CarPlay when I'm in my RV, for example, because I have full-time satellite, full-time Wi-Fi, live Wi-Fi, and so one contradicts the other, and I can't use both at the same time.
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Yeah, so I just can't use the the CarPlay in those situations.
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So that's about all for that update, folks.
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When we come back after the news break, we're going to get into Google's new Pixel tag.
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Interesting to talk about because off the air we talked about how it seems like Apple's kind of dropping support for the tag.
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So we'll see more about that.
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You've been listening to Tech Talk right here on WDBL 1073FM and AM580.
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Hey there, and welcome back to Tech Talk here on WDBO 107-3 FM and AM580 Orlando's news and talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore by calling their free tech support hotline, though.
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I might wait until Monday, 407-478-8200, or you can use that open mic feature inside the WDBO app.
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Don't forget to check out their website over at Refresh Computers.net, or you can stop in at that Refresh Computer Superstore in Longwood at 820 East State Road 434, just three and a half miles east of I-4.
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Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.
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until 7 p.m.
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And now for David Levitt.
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All right.
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Thanks, Craig.
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And thanks everybody for listening to Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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Before we get into the segment on Google's new Pixel tag, which is kind of a cool, cool device if you've ever used the Apple tag, it's very similar to that.
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I want to remind everybody that we do have early Black Friday sales going on right now at Refresh Computers.
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You can go online and shop there and you'll see a bunch of computers and laptops for sale there.
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It doesn't specifically say these are part of a Black Friday sale, but trust me, they have been reduced.
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A lot of these computers' prices are reduced for early Black Friday.
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We do have the signage in the store, though.
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We're closed today, but if you can come by starting tomorrow if you want, you can come in and you can look at all the signage.
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We have everything that has a dramatic price drop on some of these computers and laptops right there at Refresh Computers and Happy.
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To be able to do this early Black Friday deal for a lot of people because you know it takes you know it takes a lot to run a shop like refresh computers.
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And one of the things that you know that I'm very mindful of is being able to have Black Friday products every every year.
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So I have I actually believe it or not, prepare for this and to make sure that most, if not all, of the products that we have early Black Friday sales on and also for the regular Black Friday sales, they're plenty in stock.
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So you know, if you basically if you see it on our website, it's in the store because anything that we are out of stock in the store when it gets down to zero quantity, it is removed automatically from our website.
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So just come on by if you if you're in the Longwood area, we'd love to talk to you.
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And if you're not even in the market for an updated computer today, mm, you know, bring your old computer in if you need a cleanup.
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If it's getting slow, sometimes a lot people come in, Greg, and they think, Oh gosh, I gotta get a new computer.
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Um and they bring in their old one so we can do a data transfer, which we also offer off of your old device.
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And you know, oftentimes we'll be we'll get into that computer or laptop and and and tell the customer, hey, you know, we can sell you another computer or laptop if you want one, if you want to upgrade, but we can get this one running for you quicker and a lot cheaper than upgrading to another one.
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And a lot
of times people will do that, and sometimes they just want to upgrade anyway.
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So we are glad to be able to do that for our customers at refresh computers.
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So this new Google Pixel tag, you know, when the AirTag first came out, I I was excited.
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I got those.
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I I used them for a while.
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I I would you know I put them on my wife's car ring.
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Why?
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I guess her car keys ring.
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Yeah.
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Where's my keys?
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And so it was very handy, but they were a little clunky, right?
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Sure.
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Kind of thick.
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I know a lot of people use them in their luggage, which is a great idea.
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You know, if uh it's you can find your lost bags if the airlines can't, basically, right?
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Usually they can't.
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So luckily, luckily they have these kind of devices for us these days.
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And uh something that we mentioned a little bit earlier was the discontinuation of the Apple AirTag.
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I just wanted to make a clarified statement.
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So they discontinued their first generation of the Apple AirTag.
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They came out with a new version of the AirTag called AirTag 2 earlier this year, a little bit thinner, a louder speaker, and a longer battery life.
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So that's okay.
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So I knew I heard news about it, and and and so the discontinuing of the product wasn't true.
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It was the first version.
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Exactly.
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Because they came out with a with AirTag 2.
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Brand new, a brand new updated version.
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And I mean that this is exactly what the new Pixel tag is coming out to compete with.
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You're right.
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Because if you have a Pixel phone, this might be the device you would want because you know the Apple tags are primarily, I would imagine, just for Apple phones.
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And right?
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So if you have an Apple phone, and you the way you use the the Air Tag with the Apple phone and the uh Google Pixel tag will be the same way if you have a Pixel phone, is that it's you can use it in like a find my device mode on your Apple phone, and it'll find where your Pixel tag or not your Pixel tags on an iPhone, where your AirTags are on an iPhone.
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And you know, now that they've come out with this version too, I think I might go out and
get that because I haven't used my old version of the Apple Air Tags in quite some time.
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I think the batteries died, and and I remember trying to change the batteries on those.
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And if if if you've tried to change your batteries on AirTag One, maybe you know what I'm talking about.
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They're not the easiest battery swap out there is on the planet.
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And these Pixel tags, they are built by Google, and they also have their line of phones called the Pixel Phone.
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Pixel phone.
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But these tags are also usable with other Android devices.
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So if you have a Samsung phone, nice, nice dimension.
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So yeah.
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Any of those other brands that also utilize the Android operating system, you can use those as well.
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Oh, that's cool.
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That's a good feature.
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Well, because you know, but there's uh you know the Pixel phone, I I don't think is as popular as the Samsung.
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Right.
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Right?
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Yeah so I think Samsung probably sells more Google devices devices than just about anybody.
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And Google says that this is good for more than a billion Android devices around the world.
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So that just because of again how popular the Android operating system is between multiple different companies that make phones for them, it's not like Apple, where it's an Apple phone with an Apple operating system.
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It's everywhere.
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So you can it it really does kind of build a very large network that kind of helps all of these tags work together, right?
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Oh yeah.
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And you know, one uh there's a few other updates that Google announced, you know, for the Pixel, if you have that Pixel 10 phone, Gemini Intelligence adds tools such as Rambler, which I love this tool.
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So what is Rambler?
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It's something that I need, you know.
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It's a tool that I need because it cleans up your voice to text.
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And so how many times are you do you use voice to text and then you send it without really looking at it really well, and then go back and say, Oh my gosh, uh let me let me send an apology.
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Those were not the words I said on that one, Gemini.
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Thanks for the help, right?
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Or or or clarification.
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I mean, better yet, I mean I love the name of it because you know when it it's kind of like people ramble, ramble on, you know.
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Yeah, so it's called the the rambler, and so it cleans up your voice typing.
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So it so you know it's kind of like grammarly, right?
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As a device that cleans up your text typing.
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So you know, and and Windows has this now too built in in a lot of the, you know, in Word and places like that where it auto-corrects, right?
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So it's basically autocorrects and it also suggests uh better grammar to be used and stuff that you're typing or that you're saying.
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Now with the new Rambler, it's going to clean it up and might even suggest better grammar for you in the text that that is displayed while you're using your Pixel.
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Listen, I grew up in the South and here in Florida, so yeah, sometimes I need my grammar corrected a little bit.
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So me too.
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So so the Pixel 11 series, right, in the US, it gets a call screen upgrade also.
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So custom icon styles are coming to the Pixel 6a and newer, and Pixel Search to Pixel 6 and newer.
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So these are some of the upgrades if you're coming, if you happen to have a Pixel phone.
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I personally don't know anybody that has a Pixel phone, although there's millions of them out there.
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So this will probably help you guys if you happen to have one of those.
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So that's kind of cool.
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But the the holidays are here and they offer all kinds of those discounts on phones and especially with the carriers.
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I've seen them already for those Google Pixel phones coming out this year.
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So that might be a good good word of advice as you head into maybe changing up your phone selection this year.
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That's right.
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And you know, and just remember that you know, trackers and these phone updates and all that kind of stuff, these are very useful, right?
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But they do not fix a slow or outdated computer.
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Not yet, anyway.
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Right.
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Maybe that's coming.
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So if you have a machine that is running slow, it you know, it could be for a multitude of reasons and and you're not sure what it is.
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I know a lot of people today, Greg, use AI tools to diagnose their computer now because why wouldn't you?
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Right?
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That's what the tools are there for.
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But you know, they're not always correct, the the things that come back.
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And some of the things that it asks people to do, it might be a little challenging for some people to perform some of those tasks.
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So if you're in that boat, you know, that's what we're here for.
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We're at Refresh Computers at 820 East State Road 434, right there in Longwood.
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And you can bring your slow running device over and we can take a look at it for you.
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We can tell you what's going on with it.
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We have free diagnostics, right?
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So we'll tell you, we'll check it out, we'll put it up on the tech counter and check it out for you while you wait and let you know what's going on and give you some suggested uh things that you can do to make your computer faster that we can do for you.
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And if none of that is going to work for you or is not within your budget, or maybe you just just want to upgrade your computer or your laptop anyway, that's what we're there for, also.
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We have hundreds of computers and laptops in stock running the gamut, Greg.
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And people come in, and you know, the first thing that we ask them when they're looking, shopping for a new computer or laptop is you know, what you know, what's your typical use of it?
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Because 90% or more of the people that use computers and laptops a day, like you and I, you don't need to buy the thousand dollar model, right?
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Right.
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You can get by with the$300 model, the$260 model, and it'll do the same thing as that for what you're doing.
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And again, at Refresh Computer Superstore, those are refurbished computers.
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So you're saving a little bit of money.
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Those might have been the$1,000 machine just a couple of years ago.
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So you're also getting that great availability as well.
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Well, yeah, and you'll see on the the price tag at every refresh computer's refurbished computer or laptop is the uh one price X'd out and then the the new price.
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And the and the price that's X'd out, it was the original price of that when it was new.
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And then so the price below it is what we're selling it for.
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And so, and sometimes when we have price drops like we're we're doing right now at Refresh Computers, there's three prices.
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It's it's the what it originally sold for, it's what we had it on sale for originally, and below that is the price drop price, which is you know, some computers an additional$50,$100 off that computer.
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And one of the things that I did, Greg, when I decided which computers to price drop first for early Black Friday deals, is check our quantity, what we had the most of.
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And then also where we stand where we can actually lower the price that where we're not actually, you know, giving them away for you know, we're getting back at least what we paid for them, or and and so and that's a pretty good price point, folks.
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Yeah, no, you can't expect anything better than that.
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No, and and you know, one of the reasons you know it's a running thing for me, you know.
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You all these big box stores that have big electronics box stores that have gone out of business over the last decade or two.
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One of the reasons that I believe and I think is the main reason why circuit cities of the world, for example, go out of business is because you can only give away stuff for what you paid for it for so long when you're in a retail environment.
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That's just the simple economics of it.
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Right.
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And I and I know they did this for a lot of products because you know we were around when Circuit City was around.
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And guess who's still here?
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And guess who's right?
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Yeah, exactly.
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I mean Circuit City and the and uh others.
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And so what happens is you know, Comp USA was another one.
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So they they they they they they gave away stuff.
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And when I say gave away, they sold it for what they paid, or maybe a little bit more.
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And if you have a retail environment, come on, of course you got to make a little bit of money on what you're selling because you have to pay your employees, you have to pay your utilities, your rent, all that stuff comes into play.
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And sooner or later, these companies went out because they were giving it away.
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And I know they they were giving it away because a lot of the things that they were selling, we sold also, and and I could see their price and and I got the same price as a lot of these big stores.
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If if not the same, maybe just a little bit more, but for the most part, so I know what they paid for stuff and what they were selling it for, and you can't stay in business doing that for very long.
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And a lot of these places, there's a couple still out there, you know, they have these big investor groups involved in them now, thinking that they're gonna survive something.
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And I'm telling you, even the ones that are out there still today, they're still struggling.
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Yeah,
still struggling.
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So I think a big part of that too is also you can't give something away and then offer no service behind it.
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Exactly.
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And that's where it really helps to have a local number that you can call here, 407-478-8200, for any assistance with those devices that you buy from the Refresh Computer Superstore or any of your devices in general.
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Give that number a call.
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They'd be happy to help you right there here in Longwood.
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But coming up for our latest and last tech tip of the weekend, holiday PC checkups and that Windows update help you just might need.
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You've been listening to the Tech Talk right here on WDBO 1073 FM and AM580.
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Hey there, and welcome back for a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 1073 FM and AM580 Orlando's news and talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes, sitting here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore by calling that free tech support hotline at 407-478-8200.
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And don't forget to check out the website over at refreshcomputers.net.
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And now back to Dave.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg, and thanks everybody for listening to the Sunday edition of Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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We talked a lot about the new Pixel phone and and well, the updates to the Pixel phone and how Apple CarPlay is now in play, right?
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And the new tags that the Pixel tags that just came out.
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That uh if you're familiar with the Apple Air tags, uh the Pixel tags are very much like that, and they work on all Android devices, which is kind of cool, not just the Pixel phone, but all Android devices.
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If you missed any of that and you want to catch up, you can listen to this show and its entirety, and yesterday's show in its entirety by going to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link in the upper right-hand corner, and it'll take you right to the page that you need to be at to listen and watch this show.
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So, in this last segment today, we're going to talk a little bit about holiday PC checkup.
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And you know, maybe your computer's running slow.
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Yeah, maybe you need to be able to go out and do all that holiday shopping online that you need to do, and it just keeps bogging down on you.
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And maybe you got the you're you're on a page where there's only two left of something, and you want to buy both of them, and then your computer freezes, and uh-oh.
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I've been there.
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I've been there.
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So, yeah, that's not fun, and we know it.
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You know, we're here for you.
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Get bring it on by the Refresh Computer Superstore at 820 East State Road 434, right there in Longwood, and we'll do a free diagnostic for you.
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Check it out, let you know what's going on, and we're able to help you get that PC up and running at its ultimate peak abilities.
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So, another thing that we can help you with while you're there, while you bring it in, what we do is we every computer that comes in and laptop, Greg that comes in, we what whether you bring it in for that or not, it's just a quick check for us.
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One of the things that we just do automatically because it's important that we do, and any P shop PC shop that doesn't do these things, or you know, uh should probably, and that is we check things like what Windows version you're on.
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Does it need to be updated?
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Because remember what we always talk about, you know, you have to do these updates for security reasons.
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It's so important these days.
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It it is, and you need to do them as soon as possible when they come out, and that's why we always suggest turn on automatic updates.
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If you don't know how to turn on automatic updates, you can give us a call at 407-478-8200.
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That's our free tech support hotline.
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We call it free tech support hotline for a reason.
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It's a free call, and we'll give you those tips over the phone.
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You didn't have to bring it in and it didn't cost you a dime.
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So we're happy to have that service throughout Central Florida for you guys.
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So checking that Windows update is important, and you know, so when you bring it in and it's not up to date, uh, you know, we'll check with you.
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Hey, is there a reason why you're not updating your Windows?
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Because it might be a reason.
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You know, that you know, we don't want to just automatically assume that that you you know should just get your upgrade.
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But now, you know, 999 times out of a thousand, it should be upgraded.
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Okay, there's really no real good reason not to not to upgrade it, and every reason to upgrade it, especially when it has to come to security on that device.
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So bring that in.
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And again, you know, we are a full service store.
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So we do all these, we do repairs on everything laptops, desktops, screens, replace screens, power jacks that break is the common thing that we do there.
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Software-related glitches will help you get your outlook set up when outlook is working.
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When it's working, and things like that we help people with all the time.
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And you know, something maybe your mobile device, something you can't figure out on your mobile device.
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We don't sell mobile devices, folks, but we'll help you out technically with them.
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Bring it on in and say, hey, I can't get my phone to do this.
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Well, one of our guys will sit with you for a few minutes and get you going with whatever you you you're trying to get done right on your phone because you know it it confuses my wife all the time.
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There's things that goes on, and I get it, and I'm always having to help her get somewhere on her phone and set up her her car play again because you know somebody sat in her car and borrowed her car for a couple of days and hooked up their phone.
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Now her phone's disconnected.
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You know what I mean.
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Those kinds of things we help you out with.
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Bring it on in.
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So that's all we have time for, folks, today.
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Glad you're listening and watching.
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So tune in next week.
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We'll have uh fresh tech talk shows.
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This is David Levitt, owner and founder of Refreshed Computers.
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We'll talk to you again next week.