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If you’re a Twitter fanatic, you’ll concur that there are lots of cool stuff going on there. The banters, sarcasm, savage replies and humour on the platform are unrivalled. In sharing these interesting content, Tweeters make use of texts, images (mostly memes ), GIFs and videos. While images have support to be downloaded directly from the app, the latter two aren’t capable. Yes, I didn’t forget texts, but that’s easy to save once your Android smartphone can perform a screenshot ....

Gmail is a fundamental mass-specialized communication service for many users despite the fact that it’s free. You probably won’t know it, however, but a significant number of Gmail’s best highlights are stowed away from plain sight; elements, for example, email records, group contacts, google groups, labels, and other mass email capabilities. Utilizing Gmail’s gathering email capability can save a ton of trouble & time over the long haul. Google Groups allow you to communicate with colleagues, by sharing a common email address ....

Final Cut Pro 10.7 introduced several new features including video role colors, collapse to the connected storyline, accelerated H.264 and HEVC exports, the much-needed enhanced object tracker, and my favorite, automatic timeline scrolling. With automatic timeline scrolling, You can set the timeline to scroll continuously during playback, so that the timeline always shows the section of the project playing in the viewer. Before this update, you had to do this manually using the horizontal bar or needed some plugin or 3rd party software....

You can make your Chromebook run like a new one with a factory reset. I don’t factory reset my devices very often or even at all and so should you. However, a factory reset can come in handy when you need to quickly fix difficult Chromebook issues, when your Chromebook starts to run slowly or when you want to sell or give it away. With other computers, factory reset usually means formatting the primary harddrive using 3rd party tools, however, with Chromebooks, the feature is built-in to the operating system....

Mastercard is usually tethered to a physical ATM card from the bank. What Airtel has done is create a virtual debit card tethered to a customer’s Airtel Money account. A user doesn’t need to have a bank account to make international transactions from now on. As such, your Airtel Money account balance will mirror the Airtel Money Mastercard account. Subsequently, Airtel is poised to tap into its legion of customers who already use the Airtel mobile money service but might be having issues making international transactions outside Uganda....

Zoom is a video conferencing software that tonnes of businesses, schools, and government agencies are using around the world, and it has become extremely popular in recent months. The platform is great for video conferences, webinars, one-on-one meetings, calls, and even for chats. The numerous communication options available on Zoom is one of the reasons why the platform quickly rose to become people’s favorite . And it is becoming more popular as the day goes by....

The internet is one place where you want your privacy respected on all fronts. However, this is something you need to pay keen attention to because the hackers are also not sleeping. One way to keep your online privacy strong is by concealing your internet traffic. In this article, I will show you some ways this can be achieved. Tor Browser Also known as the Onion Router, Tor is a specially designed Internet routing system that routes traffic while encrypting the IP address of where it came from....

Samsung recently unveiled its 2020 flagship family of phones, the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and the S20 Ultra . As expected, many are eagerly awaiting the official local launch of these devices. So you’re in Kenya, how do you get your hands on one of these devices? Well, the global launch was earlier this month and many regions including the US, have started sending out these devices to new owners....

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful image editing software without peer. Unfortunately, it’s also not something a newbie can easily use off the bat. But Microsoft Word is as easy as it comes. It’s obviously not an image editing software in any sense of the world. But don’t you go underestimating what it can do. MS Word does have a few tricks up its sleeve. You will have to admit, learning to manipulate Photoshop to do such simple tasks like removing an image background is like learning Swordcraft so that you can peel potatoes....

Linux is a very versatile platform for not only power users but also tweakers and tinkerers. With the rise of Linux, desktop distros have come a whole new level of options for these users. GNOME is one of the most popular desktop environments on Linux and Ubuntu. The most popular desktop Linux distro now comes with Gnome out of the box following the shelving of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment. It, therefore, follows that there are countless ways to tweak your Gnome and make it truly yours....

For the “VPN oldies”, let’s get right to it: how to selectively use your VPN for specific apps only — and not your entire device. A VPN works by routing your internet connection through a secured and encrypted tunnel that allows you do stuff like bypass content geo-restriction, protect sensitive data from hackers and your internet service provider and lots more. But the thing is, you are most likely using a VPN because you need it for a “specific” purpose or application and most of the time don’t need it to route your smartphone’s entire internet traffic....

Being the intuitive operating system that it is, oftentimes, Windows knows exactly which program to use when opening various files on your computer. These file extensions or should we say file associations number in the hundreds. Windows can automatically set default apps for a few. Most such as .jpg, .png, .exe, .docx, e.t.c. are commonplace. But others are so obscure, that you might never come across them much as they are still supported....

The Notes app is a very important one for iPhone users. It comes with the app by default and can help users store text-based information e.g grocery lists, To-Dos , codes, and so on. If you like, there’s a feature to share iPhone Notes with other people so you can work on them collaboratively. In this post, we’ll take you through how to share your iPhone Notes with other people. Read through....

Uber is one of the biggest ride-hailing services around the world. It lets you order a cab service to any destination immediately, schedule a ride for a later date and time, and even allows you to share ride with another Uber rider going to the same destination and split the fare. Funny enough, a lot of people have no idea this feature exists. In this article, we will discuss how to split ride fare on Uber....

One of the best features of the Wyze camera is that you get regular firmware updates from Wyze. This keeps your camera upto date with the latest features and security vulnerability patches. Firmware is the software or operating system that runs a device. Firmware updates can be run via specialized consoles or can be done wirelessly “over the air” as is the case with Wyze cameras. To update the firmware of your Wyze camera, you need to have already installed the Wyze App for Android or iOS....

In Summary The Huawei B683 as 3G modem There’s no doubt that the way that users access internet in Africa is now through wireless technologies like 3G unlike in the west. Users access the internet through their 3G enabled phones, 3G modems and now 3G routers/gateways as opposed to Dial-up, ADSL, Fibre as it is in other countries. So all you do is slide a data SIM card which connects to the Telecom network....

We know some of you are Huawei fans. Huawei is known for producing the most affordable high-end smartphones as well as low-end smartphones. Huawei launched two entry-level smartphones late last year, the Huawei Y5C and Huawei Y3C together with the Huawei P8 lite in Uganda. Early this year, Huawei launched the Huawei Mate 8, a bigger version of the P8 although the price is yet to be set. These smartphones are yet to hit Jumia, MTN, Airtel, Simba or Midcom stores as of this writing....

Transsion seems to be on a roll as we keep getting new devices. Over the past month or so, we’ve seen the Infinix Hot 10S , Tecno Camon 17 , Tecno Spark 7P , just to mention but a few. Keeping with the same pace (and confusing consumers even more), today Infinix Kenya is introducing yet another device in the Infinix Hot 10 line in form of the Infinix Hot 10T....

Africa is a market-place where trends are a big deal, and smartphones are not a bad idea to set a trend for followers. The Infinix S2 Pro, a successor to the Hot S smartphone, has been launched in Kenya for price of 16000 Kshs and is already lifting eyebrows considering its specifications and features. The latest release from Infinix Mobility features a trend-setting dual front cameras, with an ultra-wide angle, for selfie and welfie action....

Popularly known as the “Wefie or group selfie Smartphone”, the Infinix S2 Pro was launched a couple of weeks ago in Kenya, with many anticipating its arrival in Uganda. Some vendors were able to sneak a few pieces into Uganda for the early adopters who couldn’t wait. The device is popular for its dual front cameras with one wide angle lens enabling it take group selfies at 135 degrees. The S2 Pro has 2 variations; the 32GB/3GB RAM and the 16GB/2GB RAM version with Android 6....