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What Is Samsung Separate App Sound? The Samsung Separate App Sound feature allows you to play music from your smartphone from one app to a Bluetooth speaker or headphones while still receiving notifications for calls, messages, and system alerts. For example, you may want to listen to music on your headphones, but you don’t want the music interrupted by a call. When the feature is on, you’ll still hear system sounds from your smartphone’s speakers, such as alarms and the ringtone to alert you of an incoming call, so you can pause playback yourself or ignore the call or alarm....

Chrome OS bears the same name as the Google web browser called Chrome. Chrome is the primary interface for Chrome OS, and both have evolved through the different versions that have been released. Target Audience for Chrome OS Chrome OS was initially targeted towards netbooks. Netbooks are small notebooks designed primarily for web browsing. Although some netbooks were sold with Linux, the consumer preference tended toward Windows, and consumers decided that maybe the novelty wasn’t worth it....

Big tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google, gaming companies like Epic Games, and even big brands like Nike and retailers like Walmart are all vying to control the development of the Metaverse or tap into valuable virtual markets. Facebook even famously renamed itself Meta specifically to signal its focus on the development of the coming Metaverse. What Does Metaverse Mean? Metaverse is a portmanteau of the words meta and universe and was coined in Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snowcrash....

Which Devices Use Tizen OS? Several variations of Tizen OS have been developed to power different types of devices. For example, you’ll find Tizen Wearable on various Samsung smartwatches such as the Samsung Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Gear series. Tizen Mobile runs on the Samsung Z series of budget smartphones. Other versions of the Tizen include OS IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) for cars and Tizen TV for smart TVs. Tizen Wearable OS: Samsung Smartwatches While most Samsung smartphones run on a modified version of Android, its smartwatches run on Tizen Wearable, which has an ecosystem of apps separate from Wear (formerly Android Wear)....

There are several ways to find your forgotten Vista password: Use Your Windows Vista Password Reset Disk If at some point in the past, you created a Windows Vista password reset disk, congratulations for being proactive! Now is the time to use it. Your password reset disk will still work even if you’ve changed your Windows Vista password since creating it. Take Educated Guesses Before you skip over this seemingly obvious advice, really take a look at some of these ideas....

What Are Car Interior Lights? Interior lighting is one of two pretty broad umbrellas that encompass all of the different types of lights in and around your car. The other category is exterior lighting, which covers everything from your headlights to your tail lights and everything between. Car interior lights can be further broken down by their specific purposes. Dome lights are usually located overhead and illuminate the interior of your car at night, while map lights, located on or near the sun visors, were originally designed to literally facilitate the reading of physical maps (links to PDF) at night....

Write the work-from-home proposal from your employer’s perspective and answer any questions or concerns about your not being physically at the office. Remote Work Proposal Tips Below are the questions you should answer in your remote work proposal. The idea is to answer what your supervisor will most likely be wondering when it comes to whether or not you should be given a work from home position. What’s Your Work Plan?...

What Is WhatsApp Plus? Working kind of like a WhatsApp premium service, WhatsApp Plus is an app for Android smartphones that adds extra features to your existing WhatsApp app. For the most part, it enables you to customize your experience extensively such as by installing themes or new fonts. There are downsides though. For one thing, it’s not an official app. You can’t download it from the Google Play Store. Instead, you have to download the APK file and install it manually....

Where Can You Watch ‘One Piece’ Online for Free? Availability of One Piece episodes may differ depending on your region, but you can likely find them for free on the following websites. Watch ‘One Piece’ on Crunchyroll Crunchyroll offers numerous apps that allow you to stream One Piece on your tablet, smartphone, smart TV, or gaming consoles. If you don’t mind sitting through commercials, you can watch One Piece on Crunchyroll for free....

The company just announced it will officially support Matter across its line of connected appliances, calling it “the gold standard of smart home connectivity.” What does that mean exactly? According to the company, it’s developing software updates for its smart appliances to allow for Matter integration, though it stopped short of saying which specific devices would get these improvements. Whirlpool also stated that future smart home appliances will be built from the ground up with Matter in mind, eliminating those all-too-familiar hiccups when trying to connect a houseful of smart appliances and gadgets....

Who Is Siri? Siri is Apple’s voice assistant that works across all Apple devices, including Macs and iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads. It was first introduced in 2010 and integrated into the iPhone 4S. Although reports have emerged about who it might have been in the past, the voice’s identity is a secret. Since iOS 11, Apple has used new voices and recorded several hours of speech, encompassing different personalities and expressions to make it sound more human and natural with its responses....

During an earnings call earlier this week, Twitter revealed it is looking to add a subscription option that would charge users to access specific features, with some potentially including TweetDeck, an “undo send” option, and removing ads. However, many argue social media platforms are not the right kind of services to offer a subscription, because of the many problems that plague them. “I firmly believe that right now, Twitter and others have a real problem with trust and transparency,” Amy Konary, founder and chair of The Subscribed Institute and global vice president of the Subscribed Strategy Group at Zuora, told Lifewire in a phone interview....

16x9 Aspect Ratio Defined The term 16x9, also expressed as 1.78:1, means the TV screen is 16 units wide horizontally, and 9 units high vertically. No matter what the diagonal screen size is in inches or centimeters, the ratio of horizontal width to vertical height (aspect ratio) is constant for HDTVs and 4K Ultra HD TVs. Aspect Ratio and What You See on Your TV Screen The reason that you see black bars on some movie content is that many films use wider aspect ratios than 16x9....

If you’re a ’90s kid, chronologically or by preference, who’s sunk a lot of time into genre classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III, then Bravely Default II was made for you as a gift by your people. Full disclosure: that’s me. I just described myself. For anyone else, especially if they prefer their modern fantasy with a little more irony, it’d be harder to get into. Bravely Default II is coasting heavily on nostalgia, both as a selling and an entry point....

According to a Risk Based Security report, there were 3,932 publicly reported breach events between 2019 and 2020. The latest company to be affected by a data breach was T-Mobile this week. It’s not the first data breach—and it certainly won’t be the last—therefore, experts say companies need to be better equipped to handle the next big hack. “Continued data breaches raise the question as to who is responsible for protecting corporations and consumers from cybercrime,” Joshua Motta, CEO of Coalition, wrote to Lifewire in an email....

Google is facing a lawsuit accusing the company of recording conversations of people who accidentally trigger its Voice Assistant on their phones. Experts say that smart assistants are a potential privacy nightmare. “Consider voice-activated assistants as members of your household, with one big difference—unlike other living members of your household, these assistants pay constant attention to you—and, they don’t forget,” Pankaj Srivastava, a privacy expert and CEO of the management consultancy PracticalSpeak, said in an email interview....

Federal officials recently announced a $35 million grant to enable the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska to install high-speed internet fiber-optic cable. The money is intended to improve access to jobs, education, and healthcare through the internet. Experts say the grant is a small part of the effort that needs to go into connecting tribal members around the country. “Many Native American communities are located in very rural or remote areas, making the cost of building out and operating Internet infrastructure expensive,” Mark Buell, the director of indigenous programs for the nonprofit Connect Humanity, told Lifewire in an email interview....

However, don’t worry about it being difficult to fix—most of the time there’s one really easy solution. What Does the Red X in Device Manager Mean? A red x next to a device in Device Manager in Windows XP (and back through Windows 95) means the device is disabled. The red x doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem with the hardware device, but rather that Windows isn’t allowing the hardware to be used and that it hasn’t assigned any system resources to be used by the hardware....

Shortly after the original reveal for Blair Witch Oculus Quest Edition hit, concerns about lower quality graphics than had been in the original game began to surface. Twitter users like nepharyel, who tweeted, “Only Quest not normal VR?” took to the social media site to share their displeasure. Not everyone shares this sentiment, though. “The overall immersiveness is far more important compared to the visuals,” Soy, an avid virtual reality user, said in an email interview....

Valve has a spotty history with making and releasing its own hardware. I talked about this extensively back in May, when the first rumors of the Steam Deck started to make the rounds. I wasn’t the only one that thought Valve might be biting off more than it could chew, either. Experts shared their thoughts on the rumored handheld, and together we agreed that Valve should probably stick to doing what it does best: running Steam and never releasing the third game in a series....