The Best "Lite" Versions of Your Favorite Android Apps

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles What Is Microsoft’s TruePlay Anti-Cheat System? How to Charge Your iPhone or iPad Faster How to Make Your iPhone More Secure When Locked The Best “Lite” Versions of Your Favorite Android Apps How-To Geek is Looking for a Freelance Product Review Writer (for Review Geek) How to Create a Game Event on the PlayStation 4 or Pro What Is Windows 10 on ARM, and How Is It Different? How to Automate All Your Christmas Lights How to Migrate a Time Machine Backup to Another Drive How to Check Out Library Books on Your Kindle for Free How to Quickly Share Your Location in a Text Message on Android How to Hide Specific Ads on Facebook What Is an SSID, or Service Set Identifier? Today's Review Geek Articles Protect Your Kids (and Your Beautiful New TV) with Inexpensive Safety Straps Connect Your Wii to Your 4K TV with This Handy Adapter Charge Your Android Phone Quicker with a Fast Charger Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Time Lapse In the context of photography, Time Lapse refers to a technique where film frames are captured at a lower rate than that used to view the sequence of frames (images) taken, making time appear to move faster when played/viewed. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Google is pulling YouTube off the Fire TV and Echo Show Google is using YouTube as leverage because Amazon won't sell Google's hardware devices. [The Verge] Amazon Prime Video App Launches on Apple TV Meanwhile Amazon's streaming service now works on Apple TV. Between this and Roku is there any reason to buy an Amazon streaming device? [Mac Rumors] In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics Simple objects using only mechanical parts can send a simple 1 or 0 to machines over Wi-Fi, potentially useful for things like monitoring if a bottle of detergent is empty. [University of Washington] The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel Tatsuo Horiuchi makes beautiful paintings using the least likely program you can imagine. [Great Bit Story/YouTube] What Is Microsoft’s TruePlay Anti-Cheat System? Hey Internet people, did you know that Microsoft makes video games? Okay, you’re probably aware of the various incarnations of the Xbox, yes. But long before the Xbox, Microsoft was a video game publisher for the PC…and still is! It even has its own distribution platform, which is the rather terrible Windows Store. Read This Article → How to Charge Your iPhone or iPad Faster If you’re using the charger that came with your iPhone or iPad, you’re getting “slow” charging speeds. You can buy a much faster charger. And, with iOS 11.2, there are now even several different speeds of wireless charging as well. Read This Article → How to Make Your iPhone More Secure When Locked Locking your iPhone does a pretty good job at keeping people away from your personal information, but there are still some things someone unscrupulous can do without typing in your passcode. Read This Article → The Best “Lite” Versions of Your Favorite Android Apps If you’re looking for a good way to speed up your phone or cut down on your data usage, there are a lot of official “lite” versions of popular apps like Facebook or YouTube. These are generally less feature-rich than their full-powered counterparts, but they’re often a great middle ground between features and function. Read This Article → How-To Geek is Looking for a Freelance Product Review Writer (for Review Geek) Think you have the perfect combination of product knowledge and writing skills? We're looking for a few experienced freelance writers to join the team at Review Geek. Read This Article → How to Create a Game Event on the PlayStation 4 or Pro If you like spending time gaming with others online, creating an event on the PlayStation 4 or Pro is an easy way to get everyone together at the same time, in the same game. Here’s how to set one up. Read This Article → What Is Windows 10 on ARM, and How Is It Different? Microsoft just launched a version of Windows 10 that will run on low-powered ARM hardware. Unlike Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 that powered the original Surface and Surface 2, this is a full version of Windows 10 with an emulation layer that allows it to run traditional desktop apps from outside the Windows Store. Read This Article → How to Automate All Your Christmas Lights It’s that time of year when the fall directions come down and the festive Christmas decorations go up. If you’ll be hanging a bunch of Christmas lights around your house, here are several different methods for automating them, so that you never have to worry about turning them on and off manually. Read This Article → How to Migrate a Time Machine Backup to Another Drive Maybe your Time Machine drive is full. Maybe you’re worried about an older hard drive dying on you, taking your backups with it. Whatever the reason, you want to migrate your Time Machine files from one hard drive to the other. Read This Article → How to Check Out Library Books on Your Kindle for Free Tired of paying so much for ebooks? Most libraries these days let you check out eBooks, for free, just like regular books. Read This Article → How to Quickly Share Your Location in a Text Message on Android Let’s say your car breaks down and you have no idea where you are. You could call someone and tell them how to get to you…or you could just shoot them a quick text with your exact location from Google Maps. Read This Article → How to Hide Specific Ads on Facebook For a while, Facebook thought I was into basketball. Almost every ad was for something to do with basketball. The thing is, I’m not sure Ireland even has a basketball team. We certainly don’t have a professional one and I’ve never watched a game in my life. It was a confusing phase of my digital life and it took a few months before I started seeing relevant ads again. Read This Article → What Is an SSID, or Service Set Identifier? You’ll often see the acronym “SSID” when Wi-Fi networks are involved. A Wi-Fi network’s SSID is the technical term for its network name. For example, if you see a sign telling you to join a network with an SSID of “Airport WiFi”, you just need to pull up the list of wireless networks nearby and join the “Airport WiFi” network. Read This Article → Advertisement Try The New and Improved CleanMyPC 1.8.9 with Smart Uninstaller If you want to clean up your PC the easy way, CleanMyPC is a great tool to get the job done easily, and it will even keep your computer clean automatically. The Uninstaller module can find and erase any app completely with no leftovers. The improved module includes the Safety Database to make uninstallation more accurate and safe. Free Download