Why Use SIP? SIP allows people around the world to communicate using their computers and mobile devices over the internet. It is an important part of Internet Telephony and allows you to harness the benefits of VoIP (voice over IP), providing a rich communication experience. The most interesting benefit of SIP is how it cuts down on communication costs. Calls (voice or video) between SIP users are free, worldwide. There are no boundaries and no restrictive laws or charges....

Social networking is commonplace throughout the world, especially with young people, but not everyone understands exactly what it means. Here’s a simple breakdown of social networking’s uses, components, and common terms. Social Networks Explained If you’re participating in social networking, it means you’re using social media sites, also known as social networks, to connect to others. Some of the most popular social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Pinterest....

VNC Applications VNC was created as an open-source research project in the late 1990s. Several mainstream remote desktop solutions based on VNC subsequently emerged. The original VNC development team produced a package called ​RealVNC. Other popular derivatives included UltraVNC and TightVNC. VNC supports all modern operating systems. How VNC Works VNC works in a client/server model and uses a specialized network protocol called remote frame buffer. VNC clients (sometimes called viewers) share user input—keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and touches—with the server....

The interface was a new one for Apple, with a home screen containing little round icons for all the apps the Apple Watch can run and a new Digital Crown button that rotates and can be pushed. The watchOS software allows the Digital Crown, which emulates a traditional watch crown, to scroll through lists of items and zoom in and out on the home screen. watchOS 8 Release date: September 20, 2021 The Apple Watch’s eighth major OS update includes a variety of cool new features....

Reasons Why Google Home Stops Playing Music There are a number of potential reasons why Google Home might stop playing music or won’t start playing music at all, so a troubleshooting guide like the one we’ve created below is very helpful. Try every step, from start to finish, until the problem is solved! What to Do When Google Home Stops Playing Music You can either unplug the device from the wall, wait 60 seconds, and then plug it back in, or use the Google Home app to reboot it remotely....

As Facebook points out in the announcement, WhatsApp already uses end-to-end encryption for chats stored on your phone. However, chat backups, stored on Google Drive or iCloud, were not similarly encrypted, and many users asked for that to change. So WhatsApp has begun slowly adding the feature. Encrypting your backups is optional, so if you’re not interested in taking steps to set it up, you won’t have to. If you do want to encrypt your backups, however, you’ll have the choice to either set your own personal password or use a 64-digit encryption key....

How to Turn Last Seen On or Off on iPhone Turning off the last seen setting is easy to do on iPhone. Here’s how to quickly toggle this setting off and on. How to Turn Off/On Last Seen on Android It’s also easy to turn off the last seen setting on Android. Here’s how to quickly toggle this setting off and on. If you want to allow others to see when you were last online, you can choose Everyone or My Contacts to turn the option on....

App Tracking Transparency requires apps to get the user’s permission to track them. Whenever an app wants to track your data and activity across the web and apps, it will be forced to show a box that asks to do so. Most users will opt out. Take a look at the dialog below to see why. Google and Facebook’s businesses depend on being able to collect as much data from your activities as possible, and Apple’s new privacy-protection feature is driving them nuts....

The science behind lead-acid battery technology actually shows how both hot and cold weather can be unkind of the life and operation of a car battery. Even though the hot weather is a real battery killer, for a number of reasons, cold weather is also hard on car batteries. The Real Car Battery Killer: Temperature Extremes Lead-acid batteries are designed to work in a fairly large range of temperatures, but performance suffers in both cold and hot environments....

As more people become connected, the amount of misinformation and disinformation on the internet continues to grow. Social media websites like Twitter have found themselves constantly fighting with the spread of misinformation, and despite some changes to the system, that fight is far from over. In response, Twitter has created Birdwatch, a community moderation feature that allows users to flag tweets they believe to be sharing false information. While decentralizing the fight against misinformation might seem like a smart move, some experts are worried about the implications such a tool could bring....

Apple’s iPad mini is kind of like the Mac mini. It’s neglected, often going years between updates, yet it remains a popular, almost cult item. The latest mini is the best yet, by far. If any Apple device was screaming out for the home-button free, “all-screen” design, it was the mini. The display got bigger, the body got smaller, and now it works with the second-gen Apple Pencil. I use (and love) a 12....

Though there hasn’t yet been an official announcement, Time to Walk appears to be a beta Apple Watch feature that, though not yet live, will be able to grab audio tracks, then offer you guided audio workouts. These could be power walks, regular walks, or runs. “Walking is an excellent form of cardio if you do it with intensity and intention,” John Thornhill, a master trainer at Aaptiv, told Well+Good....

Corellium’s business is virtualization. It lets you run iOS, Android, and Linux virtualization on ARM processors, the kind of processor used in Apple Silicon. So it’s no surprise that it has managed to port Linux to M1 Macs so soon. But what does Linux on the Mac mean for you? “When Apple decided to allow installing custom kernels on the Macs with M1 processor, we were very happy to try building another Linux port to further our understanding of the hardware platform,” says Corellium in a blog post published on its website....

Avoiding Spam The number one reason why many people use disposable email addresses is to avoid having their primary email address become a target for Spam. After all these years, Spam (also known as unsolicited and unwanted email) is still a significant problem on the Internet. Whenever you register on a website that requires a valid email address, you might overlook fine print that gives the site permission to use your email address and or to sell the information to others....

It’s certainly tempting. With betas, you get early access to all the cool new features, and you may even get to try out stuff that never makes it into the final release. But a beta is a beta for a reason. It is unfinished, unstable, and still partially untested. You often read the patronizing advice that you shouldn’t install beta software unless “you know what you are doing,” but what does that mean exactly?...

So, instead of trying to answer them all individually every time they pop up, here’s a really big page of Q&A’s that should help out. How Often Does Windows Update Check for New Updates? You can always check for updates manually via Windows Update but it does happen automatically every day. Actually, Windows Update checks for updates randomly, every 17 to 22 hours. Why randomly? Microsoft realized that millions of computers checking for updates at the same time might just bring their servers down....

In a news post on the Xbox website, Microsoft has listed a number of next-gen titles that will be coming to Game Pass. This relies on a user’s internet connection rather than the strength of their hardware, so Game Pass subscribers will be able to stream games regardless of their console model. Microsoft is committing to back-to-back monthly releases for 27 new titles, including Halo Infinite, Scorn, Forza Horizon 5, Flight Simulator, and many more....

Project Taara, launched by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is being used in areas where it’s a challenge to lay fiber cables. The technology requires line of sight connections high up on towers. Alphabet is working with a telecom company to deliver internet access in remote parts of Africa. “By creating a series of links from our partner’s fiber-optic network over the ground to underserved areas, Taara’s links can relay high-speed, high-quality internet to people without the time, cost, and hassle involved in digging trenches or stringing cables along poles,” Mahesh Krishnaswamy, the general manager of Project Taara, said in an announcement on the company website....

Causes of High Disk Usage on Windows 10 There are several potential causes for high disk usage in Windows 10, but most come down to the same basic idea: Too many things are running for the computer to handle. One common cause is swapping or paging. Swapping occurs when a computer runs out of physical memory (RAM) and needs more space to store information about the running processes and applications. It uses a file on the hard drive called swapfile....

You can certainly partition a hard drive in Windows without extra software, but you won’t be able to do things like resize them or combine them without some extra help. Safe, easy-to-use partition tools weren’t always available, and even when you did find something you liked, it was expensive. These days, there are plenty of completely free programs that can do the job that even the novice tinkerer will love....