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Wave Mobile Money’s slogan in Uganda is “ your money is yours “, and is rightly so. With free deposits and withdrawals from your mobile money account, Wave is ready to offer you as a customer a cheaper and easier option to do mobile money transactions. As a cheery on top, Wave has launched a new feature to help their clients make utility payments using the app for free. In this post, we’ll show you how to make Utility Bill payments ( Yaka , Umeme , National Water , DSTV , and GOTV ) for free on the Wave Mobile Money app in Uganda;...

If you’d like to hide your online activity and browse the internet anonymously, a VPN is one of the channels you should consider to achieve this. It is, therefore, important to be able to manage VPN apps especially if you’d be using them on your iPhone. Managing VPN apps on your iPhone includes things like turning them on and off at will, deleting them when you decide, and a number of other things....

Productivity at the workplace is paramount and there’s no better way to do it than sharing resources. It’s always good practice to save documents, files, and whatever resources co-workers need on a Mapped Network drive which is usually a shared folder/directory or storage drive on a PC. This way, anyone with the clearance can access these resources without leaving the comfort of their workstation. This setup isn’t only useful in a working environment....

We all use electricity and chances are that it is from Umeme Uganda. If you have the traditional Umeme meter, it means you still get the monthly paper bills or the eBill by email. In this post, we shall show you all the available options on how to pay for your electricity bill or buy Yaka tokens/units. How to pay for your electricity bill/Umeme Yaka using MTN Mobile Money Dial *165# > Select 4 (Payments) > Select Option 1 (Utilities) > Select Option 1 (Umeme Touch Pay) > Select Option 1 if you are paying your electricity bill or Option 2 if you are paying for Yaka > enter the account number > Amount you are paying > then password....

Liquid telecom has turned out to be a strong contender in broadband unlimited internet access in Uganda. The Telecom initially focused on the Business market recently extended into retail market with their Fibroniks package. Liquid Teleco’s most popular packages are the monthly unlimited bundles starting with the Bronze package priced at Ugx 119,000 for 10Mbps unlimited shared internet. The higher tiers include Ugx 169,000 for 20Mbps, Ugx 269,000 for 40Mbps and Ugx 469,000 for 100Mbps....

If you are curious about the health status of a used Samsung smartphone you intend to buy, or you just want to know how well a phone runs before you give it out, you should know that Samsung has got a built-in diagnostics tool on all its Galaxy smartphones that lets you easily perform hardware test to check the health of your Samsung smartphone. With Samsung’s diagnostic app, you can run tests on individual hardware like your battery, SIM card, sensors, touch screen, flashlight, camera, microphone, speaker, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc....

If you have a lot of calls on Google Meet, at some point, there’d be a need to record these conversations. Recording meeting calls is important for a number of reasons. One is for subsequent reviews by the team and another is to bring an absent member up to speed on what was discussed in the meeting. Google Meet lets users record meetings on the platform. However, not all users. Meet users with a personal account cannot record calls on the platform....

I don’t know about you, but I just love Windows 11’s Snipping Tool to the extent that set a dedicated button to open screen snipping. It’s just one of those handy features that mirror what you can do on smartphones that I just can’t live without it. Now with the latest update to the Snipping Tool on Windows 11, you’re no longer limited to simply taking screenshots but also screen recording, which is a highly convenient feature....

Are you looking to redeem free internet data, SMS, or voice bundles from any of the top two Telco companies in Uganda? Well, here’s a step-by-step course of action on how you can earn yourself those free bundles. Some of the processes are renowned and advertised campaigns while a bunch is hacks I have picked along the journey of trying to earn something from all the available services offered by the telcos....

It is a good practice to change your password regularly to keep hackers who are constantly scrambling to access your data away. Also, once you have forgotten your email password, you will have to reset it in order to access your account. You have two options to recover access to Yahoo Mail when you forget your password. One option is to reset your password after you receive an Account Key by text message on your mobile phone....

One of the cool features about Philips Hue bulbs is undoubtedly routines. Lights are part of our everyday lives. You switch them usually manually on when we go to bed and on when we wake up. What if you could automate your lights coming on or off based on your daily routines. That’s what Philips routines do. In most cases, setting up routines requires a Hue bridge. It’s a separate device that connects all your Philips bulbs together for unified control....

Pop-up ads on webpages are sometimes annoying. But since, most of the time, we’re getting free content(s) in return, we tolerate them, right? But what do you say about ads that keep interrupting your usage experience whenever you’re using your phone? Imagine a scenario where you’re typing some important information into a new worksheet in Google Sheets or Google Docs app and pop-up ads hijack your entire screen (or some part of it) every 10 minutes....

WiFi 6 also known as IEEE 802.11 ax is now getting into more Tech products that ever before. From routers, to smartphones, smart tvs, laptops and tablets. WiFi 6 is the latest version of the wireless tech that keeps us connected without messy cables and wires. It supersedes WiFi 5 or 802.11 ac which is now the predominant standard in most WiFi-supported devices. WiFi 6 offers upto 3 times more speeds than its predecessor, better power efficiency and shines in congested areas with lots of devices....

Following the recent announcement made by the Wi-Fi Alliance that it would, henceforward, be redefining the method it uses to nomenclate WiFi versions, a lot of gadget users have been curious to know what version of WiFi their devices run on. This article would guide you through how you can check the WiFi version your Windows 10 PC supports. Also called WiFi protocols, WiFi version used to have very convoluting names which consisted of names, number, and symbols....

Google Translate is a big thing and is doing great when it comes to translating one language to another. Google even moved it a notch further by providing the Google Lens app. Right now, you can translate text from image with Google Lens . The need to type out the text you want to translate has been eliminated. You can simply upload an image with the text to be translated or point your smartphone’s camera at the object and leave the rest to Google’s translation engine ....

What if I told you that you don’t have to keep entering a PIN or pattern each time you want to unlock your Android phone while keeping it secure? Yeah, this is totally possible using your Smartwatch or fitness band through an Android feature called Smart Lock . Smart Lock keeps your smartphone unlocked when paired with a compatible Bluetooth device. In this case, I use my Amazfit GTS Smartwatch to keep my OnePlus 9 unlocked as long as the watch is within close proximity with my phone....

This is a result of a directive from the Communication Authority of Kenya seeking to curb the rampant cases of SIM Card fraud where persons end up with numbers registered under their IDs, numbers that they don’t own. This leaves many unknowing Kenyans open to litigation should line registered under their names be used in criminal activities. With this, it is clear that the little inconvenience is to the benefit of Kenyans after all....

We all love updates, be it on our phones, computers or even for our favorite apps. This, as that’s the primary way for getting new features and functionality, bug fixes, security patches and updates and so on. On our phones for instance, we get frequent updates for our apps through the Play Store or the Apple Store depending on your operating system. These are pretty useful but aren’t exactly limited to phones....

Updates are being added at the bottom of this page. Original Post dated April 15th follows: As a result of this directive, we’ve seen long queues at carrier stores all across the country as Kenyans rush to beat the April 15th deadline which has since been extended. However, in 2022, asking people to visit actual stores for such services seems counterintuitive, right? I mean, don’t we have the internet? Aren’t we still living in COVID-19 times?...

Watching videos on YouTube is one of the best forms of entertainment. However, streaming videos on YouTube is also one of the fastest ways to deplete one’s data bundle. Data is not cheap (in Uganda) and most people are on limited internet bundle subscriptions. Many people use data consuming streaming services like YouTube and Netflix sparingly to save their bundles and subsequently, the costs. YouTube is a boredom drug and a necessary evil....