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RUSH: I got an e-mail during the break. I check e-mails during the break. That\u2019s why I give the e-mail address out, \u2019cause I check \u2019em. But, folks, it\u2019s impossible. I had to get a spam filter \u2019cause we get, I don\u2019t know, something like 5,000 spam e-mails just during the program, and weeding through all those, just tons and tons e-mails, it\u2019s impossible to read \u2019em all. So I subject line scan, and who knows what causes me to stop on one and open it and read it, but I do it when I have time during the breaks. And I just read one. <\/p>\n

“You know, Rush,” — I\u2019m paraphrasing. I didn\u2019t print it out. I don\u2019t have it right in front of me. I\u2019m just giving you the juxtaposition of it, the thrust of it. “There\u2019s nothing it seems like you don\u2019t know. Is all you do study? Do you do anything else? To know what you know and to be as up to speed on things as you are, I can\u2019t imagine you have time to do anything else. Is all you do is read and study?” <\/p>\n

No. I actually do quite a lot. You know what I did yesterday when I got home? Yesterday Apple dropped system upgrades for everything, Apple TV, iOS devices. Did you know this? The Macintosh, the computers, the iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, Apple TV, watch. So when I got home yesterday, I upgraded. Well, I upgraded the three phones and the two iPads during the program yesterday. And I still had two iPads to go when I got home. I upgraded the home computer from here during the program, upgraded this computer after the program. I upgraded my laptop when I got home.<\/p>\n

I upgraded three watches starting at 6:30 last night, and then I found out that in iOS 9.2, if you have AT&T, if your carrier is AT&T, they just turned on a fascinating feature called NumberSync. It\u2019s part of Wi-Fi calling. You have to have iOS 9.2, you have to live in an area where AT&T offers Wi-Fi calling. What that is, if you live in an area with a very weak cell signal, your call will be answered or made on your Wi-Fi network with exceptional quality, something like FaceTime audio or VoIP. And they added this NumberSync to it, and NumberSync is very simple. What NumberSync is, it allows Wi-Fi calls to be made and received on your Mac, on your iPads, on your iPod Touches with your phone turned off. <\/line><\/p>\n

Your phone could be lost. Your phone could be in another room. It\u2019s not tethered to the phone. It\u2019s brand-new. So I read this, I said, “Why, this is cool.” So I went to the settings for the phone to turn on this feature, and it wasn\u2019t listed. It\u2019s the Wi-Fi calling section of the phone settings, but it wasn\u2019t there. So I read further and I found out the blogs were all saying that NumberSync wasn\u2019t gonna be turned on \u2019til the first part of next year. But then I found other blogs saying, no, no, it\u2019s active now, users are reporting. Well, I didn\u2019t have it. So I said, “Well, what the heck? How can I find out how to activate this?” <\/p>\n

While I\u2019m doing that, I got an alert on my phone, it was an alert for a carrier settings update. Do you know what that is? That\u2019s when your carrier, in this case mine\u2019s AT&T, said, okay, there\u2019s settings that we need to upgrade on your phone. You want to do it or not? Well, I always want to do it, any upgrade, hit install it, it took less than a second, and they put NumberSync on my phone yesterday, on my primary phone. So I then set about hooking that up. You can do it for five devices, so I did my laptop, two iPads and one of my desk Macs, five devices all set up to do this. And then I tested it, and it works. You can make a phone call with your telephone turned off on your Mac, your iPad — I don\u2019t have an iPod Touch, but if I did, you could. <\/p>\n

But I have a backup phone, AT&T, and it didn\u2019t receive a carrier settings update alert, so I said, “Hmm. How can I trigger it for the second phone?” And I kept checking it all night long and the carrier settings alert for the second phone did not come in. So I said, “Maybe I can trigger it with iTunes.” So I plugged in to iTunes here this morning, my secondary AT&T phone, bammo, there it was. Soon as I plugged in there was an alert to upgrade and install the carrier settings upgrade, and I did it, and turned it on. They\u2019re rolling it out. I think it\u2019s gonna take them some time to do it, but my point in telling you this is that none of this is in the release notes for 9.2. If you don\u2019t read the blogs or take time to study this stuff, you\u2019ll never know this feature exists, unless you spend time in the AT&T blog, and I don\u2019t know how many people do that. <\/p>\n

So my point in telling you this, if you installed 9.2 yesterday and if you have an AT&T phone, keep a sharp eye for an alert. It\u2019s not a banner alert. It\u2019s an actual little badge on the home screen, wherever you are on the phone when it comes in, it says, “Carrier settings update.” And don\u2019t let it scare you, just hit install it or “yes” or whatever, and then go to Settings, slash, phone, slash, Wi-Fi calling if it\u2019s available in your area, and it should be. And then you\u2019ll see it underneath that. But you have to have Wi-Fi calling in your area, and you have to have that turned on before NumberSync will work. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, all of this is kind of crazy \u2019cause I don\u2019t use the phone. (laughing) But to me it\u2019s a fascinating bit of tech. And this is not much to do with the Apple continuity and extensibility features. This is strictly an AT&T feature that you can actually use a Wi-Fi network that you\u2019re on, on your Mac or your iPad to make a phone call or answer one on your primary phone number where the phone doesn\u2019t even have to be on or in range or the phone could be lost, in fact, and this would work. So they found a way to get your cell signal over Wi-Fi, which increases, expands the quality of the call and all that. So I tested it, and it did work. <\/p>\n

So, yeah, I\u2019ve got all kinds of time to do stuff besides study. (interruption) See, you just got your carrier settings, see? Plugged it into iTunes and bam, there was your carrier setting alert and you installed it and I\u2019ll show you after the program how to do it. Have you set up Wi-Fi calling? (interruption) All right, cool. There you go. It\u2019s easy, it just takes some time. But one thing with Wi-Fi calling, you have to put in an address because if you dial 911 on a Wi-Fi call your location is not registered. So you people afraid of the NSA, this is right up your alley. They can\u2019t tell where you\u2019re calling from if you make a Wi-Fi call. So if you got an emergency, dial 911 using Wi-Fi, they don\u2019t know where you are. That\u2019s why you have to register an address, strictly for emergency services purposes. So you put in your home address or wherever you are most of the day. It can\u2019t be a P.O. box. Gotta give an actual street address and then you\u2019re up and running.<\/p>\n

Do you have your iPad with you, Brian? Well, when you go home tonight, just turn your iPad on and put your phone next to it and it won\u2019t be long where you\u2019ll get an alert on the iPad with a four digit code to authorize. And if that doesn\u2019t happen, go the to the FaceTime app, that\u2019s how you do it on your Mac. <\/line>It all runs through FaceTime, so go to FaceTime on your Mac or on your iPad and that will trigger the way you activate that device from your phone. Okay. So, yeah, I got all kinds of time to do stuff besides study. But you see, folks, I love doing it all and they always say if you love what you do it isn\u2019t work.<\/line><\/p>\n

And staying up to speed on stuff, I mean, I love doing that anyway, and my process now is simply information gathering. I\u2019m not in the process of learning things. I mean, don\u2019t take that the wrong way. I\u2019m constantly learning, but the point of studying not to learn things. I\u2019ve got the basic foundation of my existence, my beliefs, my principles and all that, so what I\u2019m doing is just information gathering. And then I have an organized system where I can recall it if I need to on a moment\u2019s notice. It\u2019s not flawless, but it works for me. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right here one of my favorite<\/a> Mannheim Steamroller tunes. It\u2019s called Pat-a-Pan. One of the many Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums. Hey, speaking of Apple, new Apple TV, Apple TV 4, the upgraded system software for that is tvOS 9.1, and they\u2019ve now added Siri search to Apple Music, so all you gotta do is say: “Play me some Mannheim Steamroller,” bam, you get every Mannheim Steamroller album in Apple Music on your screen to choose from on your TV screen. Or you can say: “Find me episode 8, season 4, Sopranos,” bammo, there it is on HBO. And you can buy it, rent it. If you own it, you can watch it. Or you can ask for a specific song in Apple Music, it\u2019ll pop that up. Apple TV. <\/p>\n

So I was playing with that yesterday, too, just searching, \u2019cause Siri searching and music is what\u2019s new in the upgrade yesterday, able to search HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and Apple for television content. (interruption) You cannot search your own library yet. That\u2019s coming. Well, that\u2019s a major code write. That\u2019s home sharing. You\u2019ve got your iTunes library of music and TV shows, and your Apple TV gets that via home sharing, and they haven\u2019t written search for that yet, but it doesn\u2019t matter because every song you have in your library is on Apple Music. They got 30 million tracks there. It\u2019s just whether you own it or not, want to listen to it. But that\u2019s coming. At some point you\u2019ll be able to search your own library with Siri as well. They\u2019re working on it. They\u2019re rolling it out slowly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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