Also Read: Top 5 Android File Explorers/File Managers YouTube Go is a super lightweight version of the full YouTube app, specifically designed for developing countries. The app allows you to download videos in various qualities and send the locally saved ones to devices nearby via Bluetooth. This is no doubt a welcome feature in areas where data connection can be hard to come by. The app soft-launched a while back and has been in beta for some time but has now seen a launch in India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya just to mention a few....

GTBank, one of Africa’s largest financial service providers – with a presence in over 10 African countries and over 24 million customers, currently issues Dollar cards to its users. In this article, we will be showing you how to easily request for a GTBank dollar card using the GTBank mobile app. Why You Should Get A GTBank Dollar Card 24-hour access to funds from about 2.1 million MasterCard ATMs worldwide....

To maintain this kind of lead means that Safaricom is obviously doing something right. In this post, we shall look at some of the features that Safaricom M-PESA’s features that make the service stand out from the rest, features that make it indispensable to us Kenyans. 1. Lipa na M-PESA 2020 was a pretty messed up year, mainly due to the global pandemic. This made transactions using physical cash a health hazard....

It saves several years of your data but the good news is that you can easily delete this or turn it off completely. Here’s how. What voice recordings can be saved by Google? Google records your voice and other audio when you use audio activations like Saying commands like “Ok Google.” and Tapping the microphone icon. Your audio is saved to your account only when you’re signed in and Voice & Audio Activity is turned on....

Lets take an example. To check for your data balance on MTN Uganda, you dial 150#, then 1. Mobile Internet > 4. Check balance > 1. Check this Number. Those are a lot of steps, right? Related post: All codes for MTN, Africell, Vodafone, Airtel, and UTL Uganda balance check and recharge USSD shortcodes With USSD shortcode shortcuts, you can simplify this step-by-step process by dialing 150141# at once. Notice I’ve combined all the selections with a star () between the option numbers....

Even though Nokia is currently holding this prestigious position, it swings on the balance. On the smartphone end, Nokia is struggling to keep up with the cut-throat competition from Apple’s iPhone and iOS and Google’s android Mobile operating systems. Smart phone vendors like Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, ZTE whose handsets ship with Android won’t give Nokia any breathing space either. Nokia has had it’s own mobile operating systems Symbian – currently in the code playing ground for developers (I mean it was open sourced) and it has tried other mobile operating systems like Maemo, MeeGo all of which can’t compete against iOS and Android....

But what causes your Chromebook to freeze? The primary reason your Chromebook will freeze is over resource utilization. Most Chromebooks are under-powered but lightweight and fast laptops with all-day batteries. However, I often find myself pushing the Chromebook beyond its limits by for instance turning it into a multi-tasking monster it is not. As a result, soon the memory or processor or combination of the two resources get used by....

Now the Fire TV Stick was first launched back in 2014. This device has since gone through three generations. The latest generation as of 2022 is the Fire TV Stick 3rd generation announced in 2020. This Fire TV Stick has two models; the Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite. The difference between the two models is Fire TV Stick comes with a remote that includes TV controls while the Lite doesn’t....

Like every other electronic device, smartphones don’t come with an expiry date but there is a life expectancy and a duration after which there is a noticeable decline in the performance of your smartphone. Why Your Smartphone ‘Expires’ There are various components of your phone that age differently and this leads to your phone dwindling in performance. You’ve got the hardware and the software part of the phone which collectively makes your phone tick of which one cannot run without the other....

I have read online and several forums suggested using the virtual remote on the Roku mobile app. This would work on condition that your Roku Smart TV or Streaming Player is already connected to the same WiFi network as your Smartphone. In fact, I already wrote a post on how to use your phone as remote for your Roku TV. In most cases, your Roku TV connects to the last WiFi network it was working with at startup....

This further expands the use cases for FaceTime as it is not so limited to the Apple ecosystem anymore. We’d probably begin to see FaceTime calls be used as a more general means of communication for users. Especially with the introduction of more features like Spatial Audio in iOS 15. In this post, we’ll show how to create a FaceTime call link on your iPhone and share it with users on different platforms....

This article will take you through the steps to export a Wikipedia page as a PDF. Navigate to Wikipedia. Type https://en.wikipedia.org/ into your browser’s navigation bar and press ↵Enter to open the page. Search for the page you’ll like to save. Type a word or a phrase in the search bar on the top-right side of the screen and select the page from the drop-down list to open the page....

What is great about the M-Pesa Business Till is that it operates like a bank account where you can receive payments and still make payments. This was a long-overdue solution. Older till numbers could only transfer cash collected to the appointed phone number. Below are all the features of the improved Safaricom M-Pesa Business Till. You are able to receive payments from customers and other business Tills.It is possible to make payments from your Till to another Till or Paybill....

Now troubleshooting slow internet speeds on your Fire TV is a game of elimination. You will have to find the issue by testing and verifying a combination of possible causes. One or two of them might be actual cause of buffering on your Fire TV. So we shall go through a number of possibilities. Keep in mind that if you are watching a 1080p Full HD movie or series, you need at least 5Mbps internet speeds and a 4K movie will require at least 25Mbps....

Also Read: WhatsApp Calls vs normal voice calls, which one should you use? WhatsApp calling is a convenient platform with tons of advantages but remains unreliable when compared to traditional calls. WhatsApp calls are only as good as your internet connection. So how do you improve your experience and quality of your WhatsApp calls? Use WhatsApp Calls on Wi-Fi if possible. Cellular network fluctuates a lot from place to place, indoors and outdoors....

Being a Kenyan, I know for a fact that almost everyone in this country owns a Safaricom line. Why? You ask? M-PESA, that’s why. The ginormous mobile money platform has its tentacles in virtually every single aspect of our lives, from user to user fund transfer, to paying for goods and services, to loans and savings and everything else in between. For this very reason, many people find themselves knowing their phone numbers by heart....

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. 1. MTN Uganda Senkyu Loyalty Program MTN Senkyu is the loyalty program from MTN for its customers. The Senkyu program is a bit of a household campaign lately as MTN has thrown its marketing muscles into educating customers on how to earn and use the loyalty program points....

Here, we shall discuss the various ways to save a Whatsapp Status. Using Modified Whatsapp Versions Most people know GB Whatsapp as a modified version of WhatsApp. There exist others like Yo Whatsapp, FM Whatsapp, Whatsapp Plus, among others. These modified versions normally offer a feature on the WhatsApp statuses to simply click and download the WhatsApp status onto your phone. These versions are however illegitimate versions of WhatsApp and therefore you are advised to use at your own risk....

Before you update your Fire TV Here are a few housekeeping things to note before or during an update for your Fire TV device; How to update your Fire TV Now to update your Fire TV, go to Settings from the main menu of your Fire TV. It’s a gear icon. Then select My Fire TV, then select About and then Check for System Update. Clicking on this will check if there are any updates available for download....

That’s because, unlike Spotify and a few others, you can not link your YouTube Music account to Alexa and your Echo Dot speaker. However, if you already own the Echo Dot speaker, the only way around this is to use the speaker as a Bluetooth speaker and then play songs from YouTube Music, on your device. Use Your Echo Dot as a Bluetooth Speaker Before you begin, here are a couple of things you should do: First, make sure your device is in range of your Echo Dot smart speaker....