Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the EFTM podcast episode?
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Chapter 2: How can I keep myself accountable in tech choices?
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I'm recording the week before I go to China, but I am in China right now with Geely, the auto group, looking at the Beijing Motor Show and also some of the safety centers to just, I guess, prove how much effort they're putting into things like that, as you would hope from a large car market like China now.
So follow me on socials if you want to see that stuff now, at Trevor Long on TikTok, at Trevor Long AU on Instagram. I assume I'm doing some work while I'm over there and posting. I don't know. We'll soon see. But yeah, that's how you can follow what I'm up to. And I'd love you to follow me at any time. I've also got little communities going on Instagram and TikTok.
Only a few hundred people, but it's kind of a nice little way to get kind of direct messages from me. So on Instagram, if you go to my profile, you'll see there's kind of a threads link as well as what looks like two conversation bubbles and says Trevor Long. And when you go in there, it's just got links and different things that I've sent. So yeah, it's kind of like a DM situation.
Or if you prefer, there's a WhatsApp channel. You can jump in the channel there and get those messages. And also on TikTok, there's a, I don't know what they call it on TikTok. Let me look it up right now. Trevor Long Tech Plus. So if you go to my profile, Trevor Long, down before all the videos and things, there's a thing that says Trevor Long Tech. Again, it looks like two conversation bubbles.
So you can join there and there's sometimes some polls or messages and things there. It's just another way of communicating as well as the videos and things that are going on.
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Chapter 3: What issues are discussed regarding digital TV reception?
But yeah, a bit of fun. Easy, easy, easy. Yeah, big week. Last week, another big week. This week and all the details are up at EFTM.com. If you want to follow along, you can... Yeah, you can do that. We'd love to have your company. Install the EFTM app on your iPhone. Install the widget. Even on Android now, the widgets are beautiful. It's big, but you'll see the latest story there.
You can scroll through them as well. And of course, on the phone, on the app, you can also win prizes each and every week on the EFTM app. So we've got everything for you. I mean, it's a community. We've got you covered. We've got you covered, folks. If you have any interesting cars or tech or lifestyle, we've got you covered.
Obviously, we focus a bit more on tech here, but on the EFTM podcast, but happy to talk anything with you at all. So feel free to get in touch at any point you like. 0477 657 657. Thanks to Vodafone. You can send a text and that'll come straight through to us. Producer Rob will line you up.
Chapter 4: How does Pocket AI assist with productivity?
We'll have a chat on the show next time I record. WhatsApp is the same deal. So we'd love to hear from you, whatever mechanism you choose. to get in touch. Just do it, folks. Just get in touch. Great to have your company and happy to help wherever I can. 0477 657 657 if you want to get in touch, send me a text or a WhatsApp. Rhianna is on the line. G'day, how are you doing? Not too bad.
Thanks, Joe, for yourself. Really good. What can I do for you?
Just inquiring about a photo stick. I've seen things along the lines that you can randomly put into any device to download all your old photos.
Hmm.
Does this mythical thing exist?
You've seen these ads on like Facebook and Instagram and places like that, haven't you? Yes.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of using photo sticks for data transfer?
They're rubbish.
Looking for legitimate source.
They're rubbish, basically. Look, it is a genuine product which works not bad maybe on a Windows computer. Um, but in reality, no, they're not great. Um, I've tried a couple and the one that literally the photo stick brand had a little USB-C one, tried it for a while, but it just wasn't finding everything. And in the end I was manually moving my photos around.
So what, what's the problem you're trying to solve? Where, where are your photos now?
Oh, I've got about, you know, seven or eight different old phones and don't know what's transferred to new phones along the way and various things. And I thought I'd try to do a bit of a clean up and get them all in one spot.
Android or iPhone? Android. And they all work still? You can charge them all and get them going again?
I believe I would be able to, yes.
Wow. Why have you got so many phones you're holding on to?
They just kind of live in the cupboard. Get a new one, put those in the cupboard.
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Chapter 6: How can Google Photos help manage multiple devices?
It doesn't find people as well as Google Photos does. I just, I'm telling you from my experience, Google Photos is phenomenal when it comes to actually finding things in photos, et cetera. It's really, really good. Apple's good. Don't get me wrong. It's great. And you can now search contextually for random things, you know, like a car or a boat or whatever.
But I think you can search far better for things on Google Photos. So, yeah. Yeah, that's just my personal experience. And that's not as an Android fanboy. That's someone who would prefer to be platform agnostic, which is why I'm able to switch so easily from iPhone to Android at any time of the year, because I know that... So I took a photo yesterday. I posted it last week.
It was actually because this show is coming out later. But I took a photo of a Benson & Hedges Ford Sierra from the Australian Touring Car Championship, and it was Tony Longhurst and Thomas Mazzera. I got this cool model car, and I posted it on Instagram. Now, I'm looking at that photo. I took it on ā
my the oppo find in six right and if i now open up my iphone and look at my settings it's now like okay i'm not fully backed up but then i open up and i can see i can see the photo i took this morning at channel nine as well as yesterday when i picked up the car as well as the benson hedges tony longan's car so i'm seeing it in google photos on the iphone
Because it's like that single source of truth. That's where I'm really looking into the cloud. And I think that's the challenge for people is you think about your photos being on a device. You're better off thinking of your photos as being in the cloud and your device as a window into the cloud. Someone could come and smash all my phones.
And all I got to do is go to any computer or get any phone, log on to Google Photos, and I can see all my photos. That's the backup and redundancy that you want for something as important as photos. You're listening to the EFTM Podcast. Great to have your company. Get in touch, 0477 657 657. Deeksie's trying to tell you that right now, but I'll do it for him. 0477 657 657. Marilyn's on the line.
G'day, Marilyn. Hello, Trev. How are you? Very well. We spoke a little while ago. You're an accountability coach. You had questions. You had a website to build. I'm keeping you accountable now. Where are you at? It's been a month or more.
Yes, the website is live, ready to go. Wow, you've done it. Yes, it's up.
What's it called?
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Chapter 7: What insights are shared about accountability coaching?
But then they're like, oh. And then I say to them, so if your water was leaking from your shower onto the floor, would you just, you know, hope that someone will do it for free over the phone? No, you'll call a plumber. It's what you do. Yeah. So what's the goal now? Is that something that you can share then to grow the business and obviously try and get more clients?
Clients, absolutely. So I've got the website. I've got my Facebook business page, Instagram. I'm building my LinkedIn profile literally today. This morning I've been working on it. So yeah, getting the word out there.
Are you thinking about paying for MetaVerified because of all the dramas that have existed in recent months with Meta accounts, Instagram or Facebook, being shut off and kicked off for breaching terms which people don't know what they've done, but it costs them business because the only way to really assure yourself is to be paying MetaVerified. Do you worry about that? Do you think about that?
I do, and I am verified, but not the paid subscription. Yeah. But I have been verified by them, but I'm umming and ahhing about doing the paid bit.
I think the thing to ā look, if you're not going to buy Metaverified, which is, you know, I'm paying, what are they, $40 a month or something for it? Yeah, it's about that. Then you need to go ā you need to do two things. You need to be super strong on security.
So you need to make sure that you have enabled every level of security, not just a two-factor authentication but using an authy app or something like that. So two-factor authentication fully.
I would make sure that you ā if you've got a friend or a business partner or a partner in life or someone who can help you who's super trusted, not just a close friend, make them an administrator of your Facebook page as well so that if something happens to your personal account, you can still get into the business page. That's a good thing to do. And then ā
The other thing is just be really neutral about the things you're posting so there can be no questions about whether or not you're breaching any of their weird terms and conditions and those kind of things. So I'm sure you'll be fine on that account, but it's the small risk. But it feels like also the good thing is with a website, your social media doesn't become the sole input to your business.
So if Meta and Facebook, if Instagram and Facebook didn't exist or stopped working tomorrow, you could still rely on Google search and things like that to hopefully people find your business. Because I mean, I didn't check this, but how much accountability coaching is there out there?
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Chapter 8: What recommendations are given for improving digital TV reception?
Done.
Well, good on you for getting it done. And good luck growing the business from that point. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Good on you. Great to catch up. Cheers. Thanks, Trev. See you. No worries at all. Excellent. Yeah, not bad, not hard. Very manageable and something that everyone can do. So there you go. You might just find some solace in your own accountability coach, folks.
Tech, cars, lifestyle. This is the EFTM Podcast with Trevor Long. Deeksy, I'll let you speak that time, mate. Sorry about earlier. Taking your calls. If you've got a tech question, send me a text or WhatsApp. 0477 657 657. Rodney's online. G'day, Rodney. G'day, Trevor. How are you? Really good. What can I do for you?
Mate, I work as a manager in a big company and, you know, a fair-aged person, and I run around with, you know, three notebooks and two diaries at a time, picking up whatever I can when I go to meetings.
Yeah.
I have read Fology before and looked at those digital notepads, but I'm just trying to find, you know, as things change now, what's better ones, you know, that I can write on that automatically puts it to text, that type of thing, or an app. I bought an iPad thinking, okay, that'll do and use notes, but it's just not working the way I think it should.
I've got to tell you, I think I should just send you this thing because I bought ā well, last week I had on the show a guy talking about this cool thing he bought called Pocket AI. And I don't know what I spent on it, 200 bucks or something, and it arrived and it's so cool. It's a great little idea.
It can clip onto the back of your phone or you can just hold it in your pocket and then it will record anything you put into it, including meetings. I don't have meetings. And I, it just, mate, in a week, I just haven't pulled it out of my pocket. And I thought about it. I, my biggest thought was I pull it out of my pocket and just, you know, make a note and say, hello, remind me to do this.
But my challenge is it's not then automatically integrating with any other system that I use. It won't automatically email that. I've got to physically go into the phone and open up the pocket app and then, you know, do stuff. Whereas for you, You're already in that space where you're trying to replicate a process.
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