An Intro to Facebook Lite As its name suggests, Facebook Lite is a lighter version of the standard app. It was designed for Android devices that can’t handle the bulkiness and power-sucking nature of the standard app. Facebook Lite has been stripped down specifically in size and system resource requirements so it uses less RAM, CPU and data. It can also run on unstable or low speed internet connections. Despite its ’lightness’ in system requirements and data use, Facebook Lite still offers almost all of the features you can get on the original Facebook app, meaning that you can still get the full Facebook experience even without the best device, data plan or Wi-Fi connection....

This service is a combination of other Google services, some of which have now been replaced by Google Hangouts. For example, Google Talk, Hangouts, and even parts of Google Voice are integrated into this one platform. You can start a conversation with someone using their phone number or email address, as well as their name if they’re already in your contact list. Calls made from Google Hangouts to real phones use Google Voice and might, therefore, require calling credit, which you may be able to get free directly from Google....

What Is LinkedIn InMail? LinkedIn is great for making professional connections, but when you want to start a conversation with someone who’s not already in your network, you can’t do so with a private message. Unless, of course, you have InMail. It’s essentially an extension of the standard messaging feature, which can be accessed by selecting the Messages tab at the top of the screen or bottom of the app when signed into your LinkedIn account....

If you have cut the cord and love the freedom (and savings) of streaming content but find yourself tired of sifting through the same old content on Netflix, Prime Video, or Hulu, the hand-picked movies offered on Mubi could be just the ticket. What Is Mubi? Mubi refers to itself as a streaming service, a video content curator, a publisher, a distributor, and a cinema lover. Every day, Mubi introduces a new film of the day....

From RFID to NFC NFC is an extension of RFID (radio frequency identification), a form of passive communications. A short-range radio field can activate an RFID chip, or tag, to issue a short radio signal, an interaction that allows the reader device to use the RFID signal to identify a person or object. RFID technology is used in many of the security badges used by corporations and other entities. Such a badge is linked to a database, against which the reader can check the ID to verify if the user should have access or not....

There are two versions of this compression scheme: HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2. The second version uses enhanced features and is more standardized than the first. Support for the HE-AAC Format In digital music, the HE-AAC format is supported and used in different ways. These include: Software media players: Different jukebox software applications support the HE-AAC format in various ways. For example, iTunes (now Apple Music) supports both HE-AAC encoding and decoding....

Why You Might Want to Jailbreak Your Phone Jailbreaking works by installing a software application on your computer and then having it transfer certain instructions to the phone so that it can essentially break open the file system. A jailbreak comes with a collection of tools that let you modify what otherwise could not be modified. Jailbreaking lets you do everything from customizing the look of your iPhone to installing third-party applications, which are titles that are not authorized and available in the App Store....

Genre: Comedy, Drama Starring: Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson Created By: Oliver Lansley TV Rating: TV-14 Number of Seasons: 1 Led by a strong female cast, Flack explores the pitfalls of living in the social media age where all eyes are on everyone at all times. All of the first season is now available on Prime Video. The second season, which aired in the U.K. in 2020, will drop in North America later this year....

Last week, Apple announced the new changes after reaching a $100 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit from US app developers. While these changes are mostly seen on the developer side, App Store users should become more aware of their apps going forward and what they’re being charged for. “If Apple is opening up their doors more towards developers who want to expand their price point, consumers should be wary of how much one app or another will want them to spend once they’re using it,” Bill Mann, a privacy expert at Restore Privacy, wrote in an email to Lifewire....

The View Once option for WhatsApp has been available for Android since June 2021, and has just begun testing on iOS, giving users the ability to toggle the setting before sending anything. Enabling View Once will cause the message to delete itself after the recipient views it, so they can’t go back and check the message again later. It sounds like a straightforward way to address privacy, in theory, but there are several elements that make View Once all but meaningless....

There’s talk of MagSafe coming to the iPad, and it’s easy to assume this is the iPhone kind of MagSafe, which is essentially just a Qi charging puck that sticks to the back of the phone using magnets. But that’s a terrible idea for the iPad, as we shall see. Far better would be the addition of a MacBook-style MagSafe charger, or two, which would solve several of the iPad’s biggest shortcomings....

From individuals pulling off some impressive automotive trickery to companies building custom vehicles, the act of replacing an internal combustion engine with an electric motor and a bunch of batteries has been going on for years. These restomod (a combination of restoration and modification) creations have created a cottage industry and drawn the ire of some classic vehicle associations while being embraced by individuals. The reasons for transforming a vehicle from something that burns oil into something that requires a plug vary....

According to The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle, keeping eBooks readable takes way more work than you might expect. Changing file formats, copy prevention, and the fragile nature of digital storage make managing digital books a never-ending task. And that’s for a professional library. For individuals, it’s even worse. “With the constant change, not just in file formats but in digital devices, it is difficult to maintain a digital library. Having begun my digital library using a Nook device, before moving to a Kindle and then settling on Apple, many purchases have been lost,” ebook reader Caroline Duggan told Lifewire via email....

What Does the Xbox Series X Actually Offer? As a long-term Xbox fan, I watched the announcements and pored over the bullet points, and they were…fine. Just fine. In a way, it felt like Microsoft had become a victim of its own success. I love my Xbox One X and use it most days, so was there any need for another console to try to tempt me away? To me, launch games were crucial and, well, they aren’t great....

Currently, there are only two alternatives for phone operating systems, both of which are controlled by US companies in California (iOS and Android). India wants a third, home-grown choice, and it also plans to grow its electronics manufacturing industry from $75 billion per year to $300 billion, which could include Indian-designed phones for the domestic market. India’s Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has announced a desire to mix things up....

Desktop Publishing Is Affordable Desktop publishing makes it possible to efficiently produce printed and electronic—online or onscreen—documents without the expertise and expensive equipment that was once required. Although skilled graphic designers use desktop publishing, so do small business owners, freelancers, website owners, and club presidents. Desktop Publishing Is a Desirable Skill Set Office managers, teachers, administrative assistants, real estate agents, restaurant managers, and just about any office or clerical job require some level of desktop publishing skill....

Nvidia is a graphics processor (GPU) company, but it also makes systems on a chip (SoC) for mobile devices. And Arm licenses designs for its chips to other chip designers. Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and other devices are all Arm-based designs, and even the blistering-fast M1 Macs use the same chip architecture. According to Arm’s Japanese owner Softbank, “The technologies of processor designer Arm are used in the main chips of almost all smartphones and tablets....

Google’s new Pixel 5a, which starts at $449, is the latest addition to the budget-conscious “a” line of phones. It’s got a hardly shabby 6.34-inch OLED screen and a Snapdragon 765G chipset. There’s also a 16-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 12-megapixel primary camera. “Users want to be able to access cloud applications and high-speed data like 5G,” Kevin Ryan, a professor who teaches about network technology at Stevens Institute of Technology, told Lifewire in a phone interview....

The startup Joipaw is making a gaming console for canines. While video games for pups may involve more fetching and drooling than, say, your average human Call of Duty title, experts claim there’s a method behind the venture. “These games can be of varying types, but all aim to achieve the same thing: giving the dog something visually stimulating to look at and react to,” Patrik Holmboe, the head veterinarian for Cooper Pet Care, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Apple’s hardware dominance in mobile is down to its A-series chips, which power iPhones, iPads, and the Apple TV. Variants are used in the Mac and other Apple products. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry relies on Qualcomm’s SnapDragon chips. Google’s next Pixel phone will use the Google-designed GS101 “Whitechapel” system on a chip (SoC). But will Google—infamously fickle with its products—be able to stay the course? “Google Silicon might turn the Pixel into the biggest contender of the iPhone,” Caroline Lee, co-founder of Cocosign, told Lifewire via email....