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Ugandan Apps aren’t so popular even among Ugandans. To prove this, check how many Ugandan apps you have/use on your smartphone. That notwithstanding, Ugandan app developers aren’t sleeping. They have made a lot of apps except most of them haven’t been so successful or have not had mass adoption. We have curated a list of all Ugandan Apps we could find on the Google Play Store. This is by no means a comprehensive list but we are sure to have covered most if not all substantial apps....

Podcasts, Music streaming, Twitter Spaces, and Clubhouse; there is no shortage of ways to consume content on demand today. If you want music, fire up your Spotify or Deezer or YouTube Music and you’re in business. If you want to listen to a talk show, open up Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts and you’re sorted. If you want a more interactive medium, Spaces and Clubhouse have you covered. All these are seemingly out to kill traditional radio....

At the end of saving for a rainy day or specific goals, you can withdraw your saved funds into a specific Piggyvest withdrawal bank account of your choice. Usually, this account is set up when you’re newly registered to the Piggyvest app. After some time, you might need to change the bank account associated with your Piggvest withdrawals. Especially if you’ve been using the Piggyvest app for a couple of years....

When your Chromebook connects to any network, it acquires an IP(Internet Protocol) address. An IP address uniquely identifies your Chromebook on the network. It’s usually dynamically allocated by your switch or WiFi router, but you can also manually assign a static IP address on condition that it doesn’t conflict with other devices. A MAC or Media Access Control address on the other hand is assigned to your Chromebook at the factory....

Create a Facebook Avatar Tap the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner of the screen. (For some users its the bottom right-hand corner ) Scroll down and tap See More . Tap Avatars . Choose Next . Select Get Started . Tap on one of the skin tone options of your choice and then tap Next at the bottom of the screen. From here, you will be able to customize your Avatar in a number of ways....

Microsoft Paint 3D is a much more powerful spinoff of the Microsoft Paint we all know and love. Whereas the underlying infrastructure is more or less the same, Paint 3D incorporates 3D features (e.g. 3D stock people, animals, stickers, geometrical shapes e.t.c). This is alongside the 2D objects introduced in Microsoft Paint. We won’t get into the nitty-gritty of how Paint 3D works for now. We wrote a tutorial on how to merge the Hemsworth brothers into one person some time back....

You might be handing over the office and therefore want to transfer work emails to another Gmail account. Or your Gmail inbox is simply too packed so you need to free it by transferring emails to another account. This article seeks to show you how to transfer emails from one Gmail account to another. The method is just simple and straight and you will use some of the account settings that will allow you to transfer all the emails to another account....

MultiChoice Uganda has entered a partnership with MTN Uganda and will now offer MTN MoMo as a payment method for Showmax and Showmax Pro subscriptions. Up until this moment, one needed a credit/debit card, Paypal account, or a voucher/ promo code to pay for Showmax. Showmax is one of the few internet-based Video on Demand (V.O.D) services based in Africa offering thousands of hours of Afrocentric and international TV shows, movies, series and live sport....

For a person who uses spectacles, you might find it hard to use Face ID with the spectacles on, most especially if you registered your Face ID without them. If you are tired of having to remove them every time you need to unlock your phone, Apple added a new option in iOS 12 that lets you add an “alternative appearance.” Here I will show you how to add your second face to Face ID on your iPhone X....

Are you that type who always forgets to shutdown your computer before going to bed? I understand it can be an extreme sport to shut down your computer mostly when you have had a long busy day and just dosed off. It has happened to me a few times that I dose off and leave my computer on. This article will tell you how to get your computer to shut down at a time specified by you....

Screenshotting and screen recording are very useful functionalities to have on any machine. Whether you want to create a how-to video or capture something funny to share with your friends, the ability to record your computer screen can be helpful in many situations. Thankfully, screenshotting or recording on a Chromebook are as simple as ABC. The key is to find out where the screenshot feature is and everything else flows. This blog post aims to teach you how to record anything on your Chromebook screen....

The Mi Home Security Camera 360 1080P is a feature rich and affordable camera from Xiaomi. It pans 360 degrees and tilts 96 degrees and captures 1080P full HD. It works with Google Assistant and Alexa too. Among my favorite features include the H.265 video encoding for smaller high quality videos, and especially that I can use my smartphone’s storage to store video clips at no extra charge. You can install the Mi Home Security Camera 360 1080P is a few minutes....

Having a 4G LTE router is great. You get to have fast 4G LTE internet speeds for upto 32 users. But in most cases, these routers don’t have cutting edge WiFi specs. They are also limited by range.For instance if it’s positioned in the sitting room, you might not be able to access WiFi signal in the bedroom or upper floors of your house. To put it in context for Ugandan readers, a WiFi-only router is one without a SIM card ....

The best thing about mobile internet is that what you see is what you get. The notification bar on top always displays the strength of your internet connection, be it 2G(EDGE), 3G, 4G or LTE so that you know what you are working with. As such, we can only do so much to speed up your internet connection even with Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS tweaks we are about to unleash on you....

As Thunderbolt technology is gaining traction, it’s imperative we learn how to tell which computers support the technology and those that don’t and it’s relationship with the newest USB standard known as USB4 (written without a space for some reason). What you must know is that the USB4 protocol is actually based on the Thunderbolt 3 protocol. That said, support for interoperability with Thunderbolt 3 products is optional for USB4. That means a USB4 port won’t necessarily support all features of Thunderbolt 3 product....

Smart Lock has been a part of Android for a few generations now. This feature allows your Android to remain unlocked when it is in a secure place. This can be set so that your Android doesn’t lock itself when it detects that it is on you, when in your home address or a place you believe it is safe, or when connected to a trusted device. Fitness trackers like the Mi Band 6 are inexpensive and they do their jobs well....

Multitasking is something any busy person would want, and while watching a video on your phone, you may want to hover it into a small player as you do any other business on the screen. Picture-in-picture (PiP) is the mode you need, one that allows you to view content in a small window while continuing to use your device. It has been common on TV sets and PCs, only coming to smartphones upon the release of Android 8....

When you are a regular MTN mobile money user, transactions via mobile money are an everyday occurrence so much so that everything seems obvious. But when you are totally new to Mobile money like those who are visiting Uganda or you are switching from one network to another, you need a more conversant friend to take you through the basics. MTN Uganda is certainly the biggest mobile money network with Ugx 1....

The new Infinix Zero X Pro is the premium model in the Infinix Zero X series . The smartphone comes with major upgrades when compared to the last Infinix smartphone released in Nigeria, the Infinix Zero 8 . First off, it comes in an entirely new design. Infinix decides to do away with the curved edges we’re used to on Infinix smartphones. For this smartphone, Infinix adopted squared-off edges that really look like the iPhone 12 device ....

Today, I realised there’s one more thing I need to be thankful for: The access to the Internet. I can pick up my device, enter a web address and get connected swiftly [as long as my data plan is active] Internet users in Zimbabwe don’t have this luxury as we speak. That’s because the nation’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided to pull the plug on Internet access. What makes it more bewildering is the idea that it occurred twice during the week....