Although Telegram is still light years behind popular messaging app, WhatsApp – when it comes to the number of active users. However, it is not far behind when it comes to features and quality of services delivery. In fact, Telegram is slightly ahead in the area of user privacy and security. For one, Telegram offers a better Enable End-to-End Encryption . Related Article : WhatsApp vs Telegram feature by feature comparison...
Some MacBook users have people who occasionally use their computers. For these sets of users, it’s advisable to set up a guest user account on your MacBook. This will make sure that when those occasional users come to use your device, they’d log in with a guest profile and not be able to tamper with your files or computer settings. In this post, we’ll be taking you through the steps to create a guest user account on your MacBook....
Just like physical meetings, presentations, document sharing, etc. have also become an integral part of virtual meetings . But how do you do this when you are participating in a virtual meeting and all the documents (charts, financial reports, slides, etc) and other information you want to share are only on your computer or mobile device? Whether you’re sharing lecture slides with your students, doing a marketing presentation, or sharing information with your colleagues, here’s how to share your screen in Zoom — on your computer and on your mobile device....
As a business owner, when you switch from your Instagram Personal Account to a Business Account, you get access to different tools and features that are very useful for business owners like yourself to run their businesses efficiently and also make decisions that affect the business positively. However, there might come a time when you’d want to switch your Instagram business account back to a personal account – for whatever reason....
Shazam is an incredible tool in any music lover’s arsenal. This app effectively acts as a ‘Google’ for any song you might be listening to and has since given birth to a category that now boasts of notable names in the industry like SoundHound, Deezer’s SoundCatcher among others. For a tool like this, it is pretty important to have a quick way to initiate, without having to scroll through your phone, looking for the app icon because oftentimes, you only have a limited amount of time to find out what song that is....
Google has updated ChromeOS to enable you view your Android phone’s recent photos and media. If you have ChromeOS 103, your Android phone’s recent photos will appear on the phone Hub section in the system tray. This of course happens only when you’ve set up your Android phone to connect to your Chromebook via phone Hub. Along with the Hotspot, locate phone and silent phone feature, your recent Android photos show up just below these options in the Chromebook phone Hub....
The 2021 season (season 6) of the popular reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) is set to begin on the 24th of July – as announced by the organizers of the show, Multichoice. The show will be available in 49 countries in Africa, and it will be on for a period of 72-days. So, in this post, we will be showing you where and how you can catch the show live 24/7 for the entire 72-day period....
So much is going for the Infinix S3 that we honestly don’t know where to begin. Infinix marks a first for Infinix Mobility to sport the trendy 18:9 aspect ratio. It also comes with the latest Android Oreo. What makes this device special though is none of that. That the Infinix S3 runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor is the cherry on the top. This marks the first time for a midrange device to sport the arguably pricier Qualcomm processors....
Owning a high quality smartphone at a pocket-friendly cost is an amusement for any smartphone user. Infinix Mobility has perfected this art, and is slowly closing in to the top spot on the African market. Infinix has garnered a wide fan-base from the Infinix Note 3, the Hot 4, and the Hot 4 Lite devices, all of which have registered success stories with their users. And this April, Infinix mobility might launch the Zero 4 and Zero 4 plus in Uganda....
If you’re looking to buy tech products at a discounted price, the Jumia Tech Week is an avenue to do your shopping. Every year, the e-commerce platform partners with major tech brands & product manufacturers to provide their products to their customers at discounts. The Jumia Tech Week 2022 is here, so get ready! During this time, you get access to products in different categories like smartphones, accessories, laptops, appliances, televisions, printers, home audio, storage devices, video games, drones, e....
The Ugandan IT fraternity, friends and family of Kaye Billy Branks Nduga shall forever hold the evening of Feb 19th in their hearts. As news circulated through social media about the unfortunate loss of a great personality. Many were left in shock. Friends and family remember him for his lively character; but IT practitioners shall remember his great works. Billy went to Jinja College, St. Joseph’s SS Nagalama and Kibuli SSS in A-Level where he studied Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics before joining the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on a student exchange program with Makerere University....
The Treasury is now planning another sale of the same in March, taking another shot at the failed target amount in 2017. Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) head of enterprise innovation David Waggema on Wednesday said the three-year bond will be reopened, meaning that investors will get 10 percent in interest, tax-free, with a target amount for the bond pegged at Sh250 million. Analysts blame the first failure on poor public awareness of the paper and how it works, as well as bad timing given that it was sold at a time when the country was otherwise preoccupied with politics ahead of the 2017 General Elections....
The 4th annual Community Innovation Awards by Orange Uganda held on 21st August rewarded innovative students for the mobile applications they developed for social good under health, agriculture and education categories. Last year the young innovators scored big , this year it’s even been nuanced. From the 28 finalists, the winner of the night was Kfree , an Android mobile app that helps in the early detection of breast cancer through plugging an external pouch-like peripheral to a smartphone....
LG has finally unveiled this year’s flagship model – the LG G7 ThinQ. Outside the norm of MWC releases, the G7 ThinQ comes to compete with the already out Samsung S9 , Sony XZ2 , and Huawei P20 for consumer sight. Just so you know, it’s a 6.1-inch phone with a notch at the top of its LCD screen, powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor and running on 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage & 6GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage for the G7+....
Meet Lugendo.com (translated Journey/travel in the local dialect Luganda) a Ugandan one-stop-shop for all your regional and international flights within and from East Africa. Lugendo enables you find affordable flights from Uganda to the World. Owned by Simba Travelcare Limited, one of Uganda’s leading and reputable corporate travel management companies. According to the Lugendo website, Simba Travelcare is a full member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and is currently the only ISO certified travel company is Uganda....
Ashish J. Thakkar the CEO and Founder of Mara Foundation officially launched Mara Online which is an online and mobile platforms that allow users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other. It was launched last weekend in California where Thakkar was the keynote speaker for TiEcon , one of the world’s largest entrepreneur conferences in that state. This launch featured a chartered jet flying over Silicon Valley with a Mara banner having the inscription “ It is Time For Africa....
A weekend to remember is surely an understatement. Close to 70 innovators assembled in 10 teams comprising of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly over the weekend to launch their products (prototypes) on Sunday evening. In a record 48 hours; a flurry of code was typed away, ideas pivoted, bezier curves bent in Photoshop, contingency plans drawn, strategies made and equal amounts of networks built. In a simpler speak, a lot of hacking was done and so was guzzling of the cups of coffee....
If you are still using a USB dongle, its probably time to upgrade. Yes we loved them for their simplicity and affordable cost of as low as Ugx 70,000. However, USB modems are a headache. MiFis are the new USB dongles. They are simple, portable and can support more than one user. That means that you can share your data plans with another friend or with the entire family at home....
If you are trying or intend to send money, buy Airtime or pay bills using either MTN MyApp or Airtel Money apps, then you want to try alternatives. The MTN MyApp has not been working for a month now . Even today morning while I tried to access my account, the app was still offline. The same was true for Airtel Money. MTN has told us that “the Mobile money tab on the MTNApp is under upgrade for now” and will come back online “as soon as possible”....
Sending mobile money between between networks just got easier and better. MTN Uganda Mobile Money customers can now send and receive money from MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money customers, Africell Money customers and now UTL M-Sente customers In 2017, Bank of Uganda directed all Mobile Money operations in Uganda to be interoperable between the telecommunications companies operating in Uganda. This move was aimed at ensuring that customers from different networks would be able to seamlessly send and receive funds directly across all networks....
