Formerly, you needed to save a number to your contact list or phonebook before you could know whether the number is registered to the WhatsApp service or not. Since the WhatsApp version 2.19.30 update, however, it became pretty easy to check if a number is registered to a WhatsApp account. Here’s how to use WhatsApp built-in tool to check if a number uses WhatsApp or not. NOTE : This feature is presently available only on iOS devices....

If you want to connect your laptop to your TV, the choice is almost obvious — HDMI. And when you want to connect your laptop to a secondary HD monitor, options begin to be confusing. Your Laptop could be having an HDMI port but then you have an older monitor which only accepts VGA inputs. Video/Audio connectors and interfaces are rapidly evolving as are your devices. Moreover, videos are getting higher resolutions such as 4K....

If you’re like me, working with a second display really does improve productivity. Most Chromebooks come with 13-15 inch screens which can get crammed when you’re working with various browser tabs or graphic programs. So getting a secondary monitor is certainly a worthwhile investment. Most computer monitors support HDMI port. However, most Chromebooks don’t have an HDMI port. So you will have to get a USB-C to HDMI adapter in order to connect to an HDMI monitor....

When Instagram was commemorating their achievement of reaching 1 billion users, they launched their standalone video-based app. Instagram TV or IGTV allows users to upload vertical videos that can be up to one hour long. I will take you through, how to create an account and how to upload your first video. What is IGTV? IGTV is a standalone vertical video application owned by Instagram made primarily for smartphones. Unlike Instagram, it allows users to upload vertical videos up to 10 minutes in length or up to 60 minutes if you are verified or popular....

YouTube currently boasts over 2 billion users worldwide . This figure represents the number of people that log in to watch a video on the platform at least once a month. These people get to watch videos because others with channels upload video content. It’s why we’ll be showing you how to create a YouTube channel in this post. If you have plans to upload video content on YouTube at some point, whether as a brand or an individual, you’d need a channel....

Showmax allows you to create multiple profiles within a single account which are segmented into different age groups. That way, you can create the most appropriate profile for each member of your family. This means that your kids will not be able to browse for content with higher age restriction than is appropriate for them. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to create separate Showmax profiles. Step 1 & 2 Head over to the Showmax website and click on Sign in at the top right corner of the page....

Netflix allows users a maximum of 5 profiles for each account. The reason for having different profiles is that users can share their accounts with friends and family. Others users use different profiles to have categorical suggestions for each profile. This means you can have an action movie-only profile, a horror movie profile, a kids profile and a guests profile. Each profile can have distinguishing settings, profile picture, and name. Also, Netflix will allow you to set PIN locks and maturity levels for different profiles....

When you download a song on Spotify, it not only saves you data spent on streaming but it allows you to listen to music and podcasts offline. So, you can listen to songs when you’re on the airplane, subway, or in remote areas without a data connection. When you’re on the free plan, you can only download podcasts on Spotify. However, on the premium or family plan, you can download up to 100,000 songs on five different devices....

WhatsApp is, without a doubt one of the most popular messaging apps out there. It’s particularly useful for chatting with friends and family. You can use WhatsApp on Chromebooks easily. You can make this possible by installing Play Store apps directly on your Chromebook. Even though your Chromebook doesn’t support downloading apps from the Google Play Store, you can still run WhatsApp via its web version. In this article, I will explain how this is done....

The current desktop browser scene is essentially a one-horse race with Google’s Chrome browser absolutely dominating the market. According to stats by Net Marketshare from late 2019, Google Chrome stands at 63.82%, followed by Apple’s own Safari with 18.68%. Clearly, most of the world prefers Google’s browser. The secret sauce for making Google Chrome is the Open Source project that Chrome is based on, The Chromium Projects . Microsoft simply sucks at making web browsers....

Digital TV is getting exciting and the competition is giving us the consumers more excitement. The World Cup period alone has brought nearer video-on-demand services, with various partnerships offering mobile TV on the go. StarTimes Uganda customers can enjoy Africell’s discounted data packages , as well as MTN TV bundles to watch the latest StarTimes entertainment, sports and news using the StarTimes app. With this, you can also link your decoder smart card with the app, and move with your TV everywhere you go....

Probably you’re a family man and you’ve got to stream a video relating to work on the TV while the children and your spouse are sleeping. I’m pretty sure you won’t want the enormous sounds from the speakers to disturb them. In that case, using Bluetooth headphones with a smart TV is one of the fastest way to solve such a problem. With the way modernisation has entered the world of TV sets, we’re beginning to see smart TV sets that lack the 3....

Chrome 68 has been released and it’s the first release that displays a ‘Not secure’ message in the address bar on HTTP pages. What seemed like a threatening warning has eventually come to pass and all non-secure pages are deemed to be shamed. This ‘Not Secure’ warning, for non-HTTPS websites collecting sensitive information, appears in the address bar of Chrome and implies that the website is not secure or dangerous for users....

There are times that you’ll face certain lags or freezes with your iPhone and one of the main remedies will be to restart it. Restarting your iPhone can help reset it to close to a default mode and you should do it more often. In fact, when you face issues with your device, this should be the first thing you do to see if it makes a difference. The process of restarting an iPhone is not universal across all iPhones that have ever been made....

Abeg app is a peer-to-peer platform where users can request money from other Abeg users in your contact list just by typing in their Abeg tag, and can also send money to other Abeg users. With Abeg, you do not need to share your bank details to request and receive money, all you need is your Abeg tag, which makes sending and receiving money a lot easier. In this article, we will show you how to send and request money on the Abeg app....

Email is quickly becoming that one platform that we just can’t seem to get rid of. Sure, there are countless instant messaging services today to help us get in touch with family and friends. However, tasks involving the exchange of official correspondence still require emails. However, there are limitations to this mode of communication in our digital age. Case in point, users are still limited to 25MB file size in attachments on most email service platforms (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, mail....

Apps are very important to every smartphone user. They basically help us do a bunch of things on our devices and need to be download with internet from respective app stores. However, without access to the internet, Android users can share apps with friends offline from Google Play Store. This is a really good and handy feature as sometimes, especially in places where data cost are on the high side, downloading mobile apps can consume a lot of data....

Although Google Meet is a part of Gsuite and is suppose to be a paid tool, Google, back in April, announced that the Meet video conferencing tool will be free for everybody until September 2020. Let’s hope there’s an extension, or better still, it is made free, permanently. Google Meet (free version) can accommodate up to 100 people on a video chat and users can meet for up to 60minutes per meeting....

These days, when you visit a website on your Chrome browser, especially websites that require that you create an account and sign in, you will most likely be given the option of signing in with your Google account. And while this is a very comfortable option when compared to other options available (providing multiple details like full name, gender, password, etc.), we are giving the website access to our Google Account data....

When you want to watch something on your smart TV, you can use a flash disk with your media and connect to it via one of the USB ports, stream online via the internet or connect to a Blu-ray/DVD player. The other thing you can do is connect your smart TV to a wireless NAS drive . A NAS drive or Network Attached Storage hard drive is a storage device that looks like a big external Hard Drive that can hold vast amounts of your data....