Chapter 1: How can AI enhance productivity during your workday?
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Chapter 2: What are the benefits of using new tech gadgets?
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Chapter 3: How can you save on your mobile plan?
And there is also some form of commenting on Spotify. It's very hard for me to find them. I'm not going to lie to you. It's very hard to find them. In our kind of back-end system, it tries to tell me when there's comments, but I don't know where to find them. It's a very weird setup and system that they have. But it comes up somewhere. But unfortunately, it's very hard for me to see.
So with apologies to anyone who has been leaving comments and whatnot. Thank you. And please rate the show on Spotify as well because that obviously helps. All these things just help the algorithms. You know what I mean? Sometimes people are just browsing the internet and they're looking for things to talk about or things to listen to. This helps. This helps them find them.
But, yeah, I don't know. I'm looking through the thing now and I can't quite see where there's any comment. Yeah. But it's definitely come up before in my back end. It's come up where I can see what's happening. It might be a different app I've got to download or something. But they don't make it easy, put it that way. But anyway, I'd love to hear from you no matter what the case.
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Chapter 4: What should you consider when upgrading your Chromebook?
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Mate, what can I do for you?
Actually, I've got two things. One is an issue which actually might lead into buying, and the second one is a buying question as well. Well, let's go. What's the first one? The first one is this. I have a friend who is in her 80s.
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Chapter 5: How do you manage your Apple ID and device settings?
She has an iPhone SE. Third, I think it is third, yeah, the last one anyway. It's getting a bit old and I was looking at possibly changing her to a 16E or 17E, which is the closest thing to the SE, I believe.
Well, do you think she'll hate not having the home button? That's the biggest change she's going to be up for.
Yeah, that's my concern.
I will say, before we get on that, I will say, though, the main thing I would do, no matter who it is in your life, no matter how old they are and how used to that home button they are, all you've got to teach them is the swipe up. And it's hard because when you say swipe up from the bottom of the screen, my mum does this with her Google Pixel.
She swipes up from like a centimetre above the screen. No, no, you've got to swipe off the screen and all the way up. Once you teach them that as being the home button, I think it's perfectly understandable. And from there on, you don't need the home button. So, mate, as long as someone like you is there to help, I think you'll be okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the real issue is this, Trevor, that she originally did this under a previous married name. Yeah. And she wants it back into her other name. Sure. And the issue is, you know, how to do that without losing the stored contacts and all that sort of stuff in the cloud.
Right. Well, the first thing to do is do it all before you buy a phone. So there's nothing to stop you changing details. And again, sit side by side, do this with her. But you want to go to appleid.com. So if you get the phone, bring up a laptop or a computer, sit at that, and go to appleid.com. When you click on that, you can change your name. You can change your date of birth.
Look, with a lot of things, it'll make you verified and updated and things. But, for example, you can change your email address. You can change your phone number.
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Chapter 6: What are the advantages of using Foxtel over streaming services?
You can do it all in there and there's no issue there at all. You can add multiple phone numbers. You can add multiple email addresses. It's weird. Here's the only thing I'd say to you just out of a little bit of extra context on changing email addresses. My Apple ID account is an email address I don't use for anything else. Okay. Now, to be clear, it forwards to me.
So if you send an email to that account, I still get it. But the actual email address is one that I simply don't use anywhere else. I might have 20 years ago. And I think that's a good thing in some ways because it reminds me whenever I'm logging into Apple, it reminds me, hey, this is kind of important because if I was to hand over to you my email address and password for Apple ID ā
The things that you could do with that are pretty extraordinary. So just be cautious about why you're changing it because if it's only her that's ever going to see it, apart from the shudder that it might give you from a previous marriage or whatever, there's no requirement to change it is all I'm saying.
So just do what she's comfortable with but do it all at AppleID.com and that should then be reflected on the phone.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, the only reason is that she gets real annoyed because, you know, when she goes to send an email or reply to somebody, it turns up with the old email address that was wrong. Sure, sure. And no matter how much I show her how, you can actually change that by just, you know, bringing it down and picking the rightā¦ Right. So thenā¦
Maybe you need to delete that old account from the phone because it sounds like there are multiple email accounts on the phone if you're able to drop down and choose one. So I would also, while you're there, so update the appleid.com and then go into settings and accounts or settings and mail and look at the accounts list and delete the accounts that you don't want on there anymore.
Yeah. Well, again, I'll have to check if there are still things, you know, invoices or whatever, whatever coming through for that email address. Yeah. Okay.
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Chapter 7: How can AI tools help with task management?
The only other reason is that I do a lot of online teaching and that, you know, so I'll need a video.
Just buy yourself a webcam, you know, no dramas at all there. Cheap webcam. Just make sure you get a 1080p one. Just get yourself a webcam and you're good to go.
Yeah, and the other thing that I thought also was with the Neo, I don't have enough ports to the things that I've got hanging off this MacBook Pro.
Yeah, if you're on that, look, remember the Mac Mini also only has USB-C slash Thunderbolt ports, so you will need the odd converter for your USB-A stuff. But, you know, that's the thing. When you buy a webcam, make sure it's a USB-C one. So anything new you get, make sure they're USB-C compatible so that you're making full use of all the ports.
Yeah. Okay.
All right.
All right.
Good luck.
All right, mate. You've got some work to do. Yeah. Give my regards to Steve and the rabbit when you see him.
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Chapter 8: What features should you look for in a new Chromebook?
That's a good point. So SubHub, so let's just talk about that for a second. So what subscriptions have you got within it?
Netflix, Prime and Microsoft 365.
And how much are you saving a month?
Oh, it's not much. It's 10%. So whatever Netflix is, 30 prime, another 10. It's a bit less than that. And then Microsoft Office would be 14, 15 or something. So whatever, 10% of that. It's not much.
Let's call it $10 a month. Yep. For simplicity. Look, you will need to talk to Optus to confirm, but my guess is it's been a long time since we've had actually contracted monthly plans. You are more likely contracted for the phone. So as you say, you've got to pay out on the phone. That's normally where you're at.
Are you looking to switch to the Telstra network or are you saying boost just because of a deal you found?
Yeah. And you've spoken about it and yeah, that's all really.
I only say that because, you know, Amazim, which is on the Optus network also have 12 month plans. So, you know, if you're happy with the, you know, coverage that you're getting, then you're in a good place. Do you know how much data you're using every month?
It's not a lot. Like I do actually listen to podcasts all day long. Like I'm a mobile detailer on my own, earpods in, whatever, and I just listen to podcasts all day. But actually looked at it recently and it's not that much. So, I mean, I don't know, it might be a couple of gigs.
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