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Google Meet, the video conferencing tool designed by Google, was initially available to its enterprise users, but due to a sudden surge in the demand for virtual meeting services in the last couple of months, Google decides to make the service available to everyone. A Google Meet meeting can host up to 100 people, and users can meet for up to 60minutes per meeting — for free. However, as virtual meetings have now become a thing, it only makes sense that we continue to provide you with tips to better your meeting experience....

For the past several years I have been using Google Maps to navigate and move around the country. And even more often so to navigate and avoid traffic jams in congested cities during rush hours. From time to time, I get to learn of a new feature that I did not know of before. And that feature becomes a useful daily usable feature for me. This goes to show that Google Maps comes with many features that many people don’t use....

You are about to pay to be verified on Twitter! Do you think that is outrageous? Elon Musk, the current richest man on earth and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX bought into Twitter for a whopping $44 billion in a move that was completed on October 27, 2022. And Mr. Musk has had a very busy first week at his new company. On his first day at work, he fired the entire board of directors including the CEO Parag Agrawal....

You can share your Roku account across multiple devices. That way, your settings, channels and subscriptions are synced across various Roku devices. For instance, I have a TCL Roku TV which is set in the living room and a Roku streaming stick+ which I use in the bedroom and when I travel. If you plan to sell or give away your Roku device, it’s best to unlink or deregister it from your account first....

You’ll agree with me that there was a time when smartphones were literally incomplete without the traditional 3.5mm audio jack. But ever since the removal of the traditional audio jack in early 2016, the audio jack has lost the “perfecto” feel. This has led to the evolution of the USB-C to 3.5mm adapter. We now have a growing list of smartphone manufacturers admiring the elimination, thus, a trend called 3.5mm audio jack removal ....

Computer programming has never been more accessible now. Thanks to AI, more and more people can now build websites, landing pages using only natural language. So instead of coding from scratch, you now simply type in natural language text in a Large language model and off it goes to building what you want. You can then keep adding or removing features by telling the AI to do so. This new concept is taking the internet by storm and it’s called Vibe coding....

Vodafone Uganda seems to be coming in as a predominantly 4G LTE provider, having made a partnership with Afrimax, a 4G LTE telecommunications operator in sub Saharan Africa. The network’s 4G LTE’s coverage so far covers most of Kampala only, but it’s network backward compatible which means that it has 2G and 3G coverage nationwide where its 4G network hasn’t reached — according to the coverage map on the official site....

For most smartphone users, the operating system under the hood that keeps everything running smoothly is mostly under the radar for them. The ordinary smartphone user mostly relates with smartphone brands such as Tecno, Huawei, Xiaomi, iPhone etc but has no idea about the underlying mechanics that run their phones. In fact, most Android phone users don’t even know that Android is a whole operating system comprised of both closed and open-source components with Google at its core....

Roku TV OS uses WiFi Direct to connect your Roku TV or streaming player to other devices such as the Roku remote or your android phone or iOS device. WiFi direct is a WiFi standard that enables devices to connect and communicate with each other without a central gateway such as an access point or router. For first-time Roku users, you’ll occasionally see a WiFi SSID or name associated with your Roku device in the form of DIRECT-Roku-XXXX , the XXX being some alphanumerical string like in my case “012-5FAA2B”....

We use technology more and more every single day. From activating security systems to climate control or even turning on and off the lights. Now imagine: switching on and off the lights, closing all your doors and moderating the temperature in the house. Now imagine doing all those things in just a few seconds using your smartphone. With home automation, you will never forget to lock your house, you won’t stress with debating who is going to switch off the lights, you won’t worry about coming home to an extremely cold or hot house....

Photography might not be your hobby, but you may want to share art and creativity through the photos you capture with your smartphone camera. And with Selfies and general photography on smartphone increasingly becoming popular, there are various types of smartphones on the market and this creates confusion when you need to find out which one has the best smartphone camera. A guide on what you should look out for in a smartphone camera might do you just good....

Your smartphone stores a lot of your personal information, banking details, your SIM card with your contact details, pictures of yours and your loved ones. You, therefore, need to be cautious which app you are installing into your phone. It is therefore wise to ask, “are apps safe?” Some of these apps can contain malware, put your privacy at risk, waste your resources like the battery, among others. So how do you judge whether a mobile application is safe to download?...

WhatsApp, the globally renowned instant messaging service, has been on a relentless pursuit of innovation, consistently adding new features to enhance user experience. The latest addition to this impressive roster is the introduction of WhatsApp Channels in Kenya, a feature that promises to revolutionize the way users interact on the platform. WhatsApp has come a long way since its inception as a simple instant messaging service. Over the years, it has introduced a plethora of features that have transformed it into a dynamic platform for communication and interaction....

Dark Mode has been a near obsession for smartphone users in the past few years. Many apps have implemented this, following the adoption of the same by Google and Apple in their respective Operating Systems. Many apps from Google have implemented the same and by and large, the switch has been made. One of the mainstream apps that was a little late to the party was Facebook-owned WhatsApp. There have been reports of Dark Mode coming to WhatsApp but nothing concrete came....

At the launch of Android Oreo, Google announced that it will allow third party developers to built their own implementation of the PiP mode. Picture-in-Picture is a special type of multi-window mode mostly used for video playback. It lets the user watch a video in a small window pinned to a corner of the screen while navigating between apps or browsing content on the main screen. WhatsApp appears to be among the first few leading app developers to adopt this PiP mode feature....

Uganda’s telecom companies have invested heavily in infrastructure services to boost internet access but the low users have limited their ability to lower internet costs for their customers including the Small and Medium Enterprises. Enid Edroma, the general manager, Corporate Affairs at MTN Uganda says only about 35% of their customers are using smartphones. “We are also using only five percent of our underground internet cables yet the operational costs remain the same,” she said....

In the smartphone ecosystem, Apple is widely known as the ‘owner’ of the month September. The Big-A has it as a tradition to take the veil off its new iPhones in September, which makes them all over the news for that month, and 1-2 months after. This year won’t be any different though as the company has set a date for the release of her next iPhones flagships. Last year, the Cupertino giant released the iPhone 8 , iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X on September 12....

Here’s the irrefutable truth—Windows 10 is sleek and curvy in all the right places if you know what I mean. One would easily believe the minions at Microsoft, unsatisfied with their creation, cannibalized the fabled Windows 9 and custom-built the terrific Windows 10 from the pieces. Microsoft released its latest operating system mid this year and even offered it for free for the first year. Like some of you, we couldn’t wait to get our hands dirty with Windows 10 which currently runs some of our rigs....

SafeCar, the car-hailing service from SafeBoda, has made a big impact since its launch in September 2022. With over 2,000 rides per week in its early stages, SafeCar has demonstrated significant demand among customers. Although the company has made strides to include all the necessary features of a ride-hailing app, there are a few additions that would make the service even better. From essential improvements to features inspired by competitors like Uber and Bolt, we’ve gathered a list of desired updates we hope SafeBoda will bring to SafeCar in the coming years....

Just weeks after it unveiled its first brand ambassador in Nigeria , Xiaomi has launched its latest smartphone—the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10. It is interesting to see that Xioami and more smartphone brands are now showing a lot of interest and taking steps to stamp their feet in the smartphone market in Nigeria. The Redmi Note 10 is coming as a successor to the Redmi Note 9. It comes with improvements to major areas....