There’s a particular default style in which you read stuff on your iPhone. This ranges from your messages to notifications, to random iPhone alerts, PDFs , social media text, and so on. For some, it’s a perfect style. While others, they’ll prefer it to be a little bigger or smaller, or have the text be boldened than it is. iPhone lets you customize the display text you see on your screen to fit your preferences....
Google Docs has proved to be a worthy competition of Microsoft Word . Many people have switched to the free, cloud-based application due to the obvious convenience it provides. But sometimes, it doesn’t really have to be one or the other, you can use both tools for efficiency and to complement each other. Due to its flexibility, you can open and edit Word documents in Google Docs and even (re)download them again as Word documents....
The companion app for the Honor Band 6, the Huawei Health app, does a good job of helping users harness all the functionality from the tracker. However, the app is an ‘acquired taste’ for many. First, the app is built with Huawei’s own EMUI skin in mind and while it works well in the said ecosystem, it feels a little out of place for stock Android enthusiasts who are deep Google’s material design....
The TECNO Phantom X2 and the Phantom X2 Pro are smartphones released by TECNO Mobile, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer in late 2022 across various markets around the world. These devices pack quite the punch with a bigger display, MediaTek’s 4nm 9000 dimensity chipset, and a motorized retractable camera among others. The specs aside, the Phantom X2 Series of devices spare no expenses in the looks department and are arguably the nicest-looking devices from TECNO, ever....
Chromebooks are lightweight fast booting computers with all-day battery life. They have grown popular in the Education sector and even among professionals. I have a $299 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Go which I use as my daily driver. While you can install Apps from the Google Play store and Chrome Webstore on Chromebooks, you can’t install full-desktop Apps unless you enable and install Linux on Chromebooks. To swap my Asus Vivobook laptop for a lightweight Chromebook, I needed to be able to run some full desktop apps on my new Chromebook, specifically a music player, text editor and a photo editor....
Plex is a client-server media player system and software suite comprising two main components — Plex Media Server and Plex Media Player. The Plex Media Server (also called PMS) is a desktop application that can run on Windows , macOS and Linux -compatibles devices. The server side of the application helps users catalog and organizes video, audio, photos and various types of multimedia files from different sources and making them easily accessible on your computers, as well as on other computers and devices — tablets, consoles, TVs etc....
Asides from the fact that they are out of vogue, and old-school, long URLs are unwieldy, appear spam-like, and can break easily, leaving the recipients, customers, readers, or followers with the option of trying to make heads and tails of your links or simply abandoning them. Short URLs, on the other hand, are neat, easy on the eye, easy to share, and fits perfectly on platforms where there’s a limit to the number of characters to you share (Twitter’s 280-character limit, for instance)....
The Google Pixel Watch is an incredibly capable fitness tracker that runs Wear OS 4 at the time of writing. So smart is this watch that it has Google Play Store so you can install apps and watch faces onto it. I like downloading Spotify playlists onto the watch, playlists that come in very handy on long walks, little outdoor workouts, or long journeys where I couldn’t be bothered to reach for my phone But that is beside the point....
Mobile photography is something we all engage in, some more often than others, and while there are a bunch of people that are good at it we still have those that don’t seem to get it right. Taking pictures with smartphones is something people continue to do more often with cameras on smartphones getting better. Nowadays, you can take some stunning pictures from your smartphone with just some little tips to help make those shots look better....
You might want to take screenshots of your FireTV device to get help online or make educational content.However, the FireTV doesn’t have a built-in way of taking screenshots the way that your smartphone or computer does. Unlike platforms such as Apple TV or Roku, you can still take screenshots and screencasts of your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick device. To take screenshots of your FireTV device, you’ll need; An Android smartphone with the Apps2Fire App installed or You can use your Windows/Linux/Mac computer with ADB or Android Debug Bridge command line tool installed....
It is a very common scenario that you buy a laptop and need to upgrade its internal hard drive size. This will cause you to get a new hard drive to replace that one. Also, you might need to back up your data to an external hard drive , or, you may need to transfer data from your external hard drive to the internal hard drive. These scenarios are some of the examples of situations where you need to transfer data between two hard drives....
Since like forever (pun intended), Bluetooth has been relied upon for connecting phones to accessories like your headphones, music boxes, stereo systems, car speakers and what have you. Even though sharing files between phones over Bluetooth is rare, some folks still utilise it. And sometimes, problems are encountered while pairing these devices . It can be so annoying because it limits that entertainment you crave while driving, doing those chores, trying to ease into dreamland or sharing those files in a jiffy....
Computing started long time ago and had emerged into a very advanced and useful thing for humanity. It evolved so significantly that apart from business and professional use, it stepped into entertainment. In entertainment, gaming has become the most popular thing, from being gaming on the computer, it has come into our palms itself. Mobile gaming has become very famous nowadays. Furthermore, Google Play Store in Android devices offer a wide range of applications....
Passengers’ and drivers’ safety has been a major issue for ride-hailing platforms like Bolt and Uber. In response to these issues and endless complaints, ride-hailing companies like Bolt and Uber continue to introduce new features with the hope of improving the safety of riders and drivers on the app. For instance, Bolt recently introduced the trip-sharing feature. This feature allows users to share details of their trip with a trusted third party like a friend or family member....
The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 has gotta be one of the biggest deals from Huawei but it is receiving lackluster press and attention. The device, which launches at a time when Huawei’s reputation seems to be on the red, is a pretty decent phone that will send chills down some competitor’s spines thanks to its pricing . And rightfully so, this device packs so so much for its price. It brings everything that was awesome about the Y9 2019 from late last year; we’re talking a big beautiful display, a more refined operating system in form of Huawei’s own EMUI, a huge 4000mAh battery just to mention but a few, and adds so much to the already impressive cocktail with things like a pop up camera, an edge to edge display....
The race is on for whoever will be leading the race to complete wireless technology, with 5G promising to give a much faster and way better transfer of data across connected devices. Currently we do not have 5G devices on the market: No 5G PCs, no compatible smartphones, and no visible sign of complete implementation yet, but what is for sure is that by the end of next year, you could own a laptop coming with a 5G cellular connection....
Jolla , the Finnish-based company set to launch its new Sailfish mobile operating system later this year, has unveiled its first device . The device comes with ample 4.5” Estrade display, a Dual core processor and 4G connectivity. More so, the device has 16GB internal memory with a slot for a microSD and a User-replaceable battery. An 8MP AF camera makes up the device’s optics and all this will be served on a Gesture based Sailfish OS — one of the new mobile operating systems set to compete against Ubuntu Mobile OS, Firefox OS, Asha OS among other upcoming ones....
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB Group) will effect a planned region-wide shutdown over the weekend to allow a Core Banking System upgrade for improved service delivery. The shutdown will commence on Friday 12th August 2016 at 3 P.M to Sunday 14th August 2016 at midnight across KCB branches in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. Normal services will resume on Monday 15th August 2016 at 8 A.M Throughout the planned system upgrade, only over-the-counter banking services alone will be affected....
The Kilimall Mobile Week is here. Happening for the first time in Uganda, the annual event brings a week long of crazy discounts on smartphones, gadgets and electronics from Kilimall. The campaign starts from the 24th – 30th of April giving customers a chance to upgrade their smartphones and electronics. According to Kilimall, they want you to upgrade to a smarter lifestyle without breaking the bank and as such, they have come up with some really massive deals for you to take advantage of....
Undoubtedly, web browsers are an integral part of our daily work life – we literally use them to access everything on the internet. Web browsing platforms like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome , for instance, are always trying to make sure their platforms offer the right features to make our browsing experience worthwhile. The Microsoft Edge profile is one such feature. This feature lets you create multiple profiles on your Microsoft Edge browser....
