WeChat by Tencent is the most popular and most used instant messaging app in the whole of China. First established about 7 years ago (in 2011), the impact the platform has on the average Chinese individual life has snowballed to a level where it has become one of the world largest standalone app, with over 1 billion monthly active users. This is actually because the app has grown beyond being a messaging app as the people of China use it for a lot of things, one of which is payments; InternChina calls WeChat the “bread and butter of daily life in China and an essential part of your stay”....

On Windows 10, there’s this nifty little tool in the notification are called “Focus Assist”. Whenever you are in Full Screen mode, be it in a browser or in a game, or a video, it suspends all notifications and bundles them to present to you when you exit full screen. The next version of Android, Android 10 is set to feature something similar, dubbed “Focus Mode”. This is part of Digital Wellbeing that debuted with Android 9 Pie which among other things, is meant to foster healthy smartphone use....

The growing hype we’re seeing around generative AI is inspired by the launch of ChatGPT . ChatGPT is a natural language AI chatbot, developed by an organization called OpenAI, and led by its CEO, Sam Altman. Basically, ChatGPT is a chatbot that gives you real-time, life-like answers to any question or task you throw at it. For instance, ChatGPT can write articles, and poems, solve basic math questions, and even do some basic coding....

There are a lot of reasons why anyone would want to hide an app or multiple apps on their Samsung smartphone. For some, it might be to keep certain documents that contain sensitive information private, or maybe you have apps that aren’t children-friendly, or maybe you just want to hide certain information from your mom or partner, it could even be because you want to minimize the number of apps on your Apps Tray & Home screen....

Mystery time, Sherlock! If you’re like me and you get instant anxiety attacks whenever you receive calls from phone numbers that are not in my contact list, this goes out to you. Did you know that there’s a hidden Caller ID feature you can depend on to find out who’s calling you? To know who’s calling your cell phone, try to send the phone number some mobile money. You don’t have to go through with it, though....

You might have to deal with duplicates when you have a large number of saved contacts on your iPhone. Even more likely if you had to import contacts from another source. It’s always a great habit to trim your iPhone contacts and merge the duplicate ones. This will potentially save you space and keep your contact list from looking confusing. Merging contact cards helps you keep all information in one contact record....

The Kenyan Government has, over the past few months, been working to centralize the modes of payment by Kenyans to state-run ministries, departments, and agencies, all in a bid to curb loopholes and corruption. As such, we have seen various agencies like NHIF, NSSF, and many more adopt the government-provided eCitizen platform as the payment mode and today, Engineers in Kenya are set to start paying their subscriptions via the same platform....

Look at your iPhone Photos app today. In what format are most of the photos saved? I’m guessing it’s the HEIF format. Usually, you’ll discover that this format is not compatible with a number of platforms. Hence, when you need to upload pictures directly from your iPhone, it doesn’t work out. At this point, users will prefer to have their photos saved in a more popular, more accepted format. And the Jpeg format fits this profile....

Jiji is an online marketplace for users to buy and sell stuff. Many sellers use the platform to sell used products, as there’s a huge market for that. Selling on Jiji opens you up to a lot of potential buyers. The platform hit eight million unique monthly users in 2018. It also sees an addressable market of 400 million people across its operating countries. A platform like Jiji also makes it quite easy to sell your old stuff online....

Before now, Closed-Circuit Television (or CCTV as it is commonly called) was the way to go when considering a monitoring device for your home or office. They are, however, gradually going out of fashion. This is partly because CCTVs are quite expensive to own and installation also requires technical know-how. Smart cameras are becoming the new big thing, replacing CCTV cameras very quickly – there’s a reason that is. Smart cameras (like the Blink mini Smart Camera) offer smart connectivity, cloud storage, and an easy way to set up a security system in your home or office....

WhatsApp is arguably one of the best and most valuable apps to have installed on your smartphone at the moment. However, because it is a power and memory-hungry app, it can swiftly transgress from being that invaluable app that allows you send and receive instant messages at zero cost to an annoying app that clutters your phone’s storage by automatically downloading unwanted images, audio, GIFs, documents, and other multimedia files....

Recommendations on your tablet help you discover relevant content (games, videos, books, Apps, top playlists, Tv shows, etc) available on your tablet, based on items you have downloaded, purchased, liked, and rated in the past. “New item”, also help you keep up with the latest news, TV shows, movies, and more with streaming apps. Fire HD 8 Recommendations You can choose to turn on or off these recommendations on your Fire HD 8 tablet at any time....

On large Samsung devices like the Galaxy S22, turning on Dark Mode offers quite a number of benefits; dark mode is easier on your eyes, and you also get to save battery by lighting up fewer pixels. Dark Mode is a color scheme that uses light-colored text, elements, and icons on a dark background on mobile apps, web pages, and even smartphone backgrounds. It’s available on numerous social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp, Gmail, YouTube, Slack, etc, and also on a number of smartphones including the iPhone and Samsung....

Mozilla recently launched its file-sharing platform which has been in the testing phase since 2017 and is finally ready for use to all and sundry. You can easily send files as large as 1GB without signing up or any registration and with a free registration/signup you can send a file of up to 2.5GB in size. Mozilla is a privacy-centered company and this is is an effort to expand its portfolio to the file sharing niche....

Over the past couple of months, Google has been working on a new feature for its video chat mobile app, Duo . The new feature is now official and will allow Duo users make group video calls, as revealed by the Google Duo Team Lead, Justin Uberti on social media. Although the feature rolled out in Indonesia, Justin says the feature is also available to Google Duo users in other select regions....

After numerous news and speculations circulating about the HongmengOS, Huawei has finally unveiled its own OS and it is not the HongmengOS rather it is called HarmonyOS. The announcement was made in the ongoing Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan, China. This new OS will support different devices ranging from smartwatches, earbuds, cars, smartphones, smart TVs, computers and so on. The HarmonyOS still comes as a contingency plan in case Huawei is not able to use the Android OS following the ongoing US trade ban which is still active....

In Nigeria, good old price bargaining was the norm before ride hailing became a thing. As a commuter, you have to miss the old culture of negotiating fares when it comes to booking rides. The absence of being able to use phrases like ‘can I pay’, “this is how much I have’ or in the local dialect, ‘se ko gba’ is something we all miss in the ride hailing world. But wait, you can only miss something that is not there....

Thanks to the just-concluded “Time Flies” event, we got to see a handful of new products, services, and devices from Apple. The technology giant unveiled a new device —the Apple Watch 6 —to its line of wearables as well as a new subscription aggregation service . Then there’s the new iPad with a new chipset. And that’d be the focus of this article. Dubbed the iPad Air 4, the tablet will be the first device to run Apple’s new A14 Bionic processor....

All of us have become accustomed to being connected, wherever we are, whenever we want. But what if you are in an area with little or no cellphone network coverage? Yes, it is the 21st century, but there are still places where there is no connection. Mountain tops, deep forests, and remote areas are just examples of these places. All smartphones work by connecting to cell towers and sending data back and forth over the network....

On the 10 th anniversary of one of the most prestigious devices on the planet, Apple just raised the curtains on the future of its flagships, with an all new iPhone. Pronounced as iPhone Ten, the iPhone X has been designed with features that are not only distinct from all the devices made by Apple over the past decade, but also far distant from the usual smartphones our eyes and palms have got so used to....