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Although some people use simple passwords that are easy to remember, others use memorize one simple password and use it for every platform. While these are nice hacks, using simple passwords makes you vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This is where password managers come in. With a password manager, you don’t have to memorize different passwords for different websites. You should also note that while some of the password managers listed below offer free plans, most will lock you to just one device if you don’t subscribe to the paid plan....

Switching From Physical Stores to Online Channels This package helps businesses quickly shift the sales channel mix from person-to-person and physical stores to new digital and online channels. If your finance processes rely on cash and manual paperwork, handling petty cash in the office, paying workers with cash, shopping from physical stores for office supplies with cash, Xente will help you quickly shift to modern digital and cashless processes. You can get started FREE of charge....

MTN Uganda further enhanced its Mobile Money offer to try and minimize the physical exchange of physical cash. The offer is meant to reduce the risk of transmission of the coronavirus that has paralyzed daily life across the globe. MTN Uganda has in the past also launched a data bundle to ease the work of customers who are working from home. The ‘work from home’ data bundle can be accessed through Mobile Money by dialing 16519# or through the MyMTN app....

To give a little bit of background to this whole misappropriated interpretation of [digital] innovation in Uganda, the rise of social media (another misunderstood concept) can not be overstated. Before everyone took to Facebook and Twitter and became a “social media expert” overnight, the digital space was understood to predominantly be Mail (Yahoo) , Search (Google). Those that were savvy enough found their ways around scanty local content majorly from local newspapers such as New Vision and Monitor....

What Is HDMI ARC? Currently, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the most used medium for sending high definition multimedia signals from most devices to TVs. It is popularly available and integrated on a majority of consumer and commercial electronics. The HDMI standard has been revised a couple of times with HDMI 2.1a being the latest version. Check out our dedicated post on HDMI 2.1a to learn more. Just to highlight, HDMI 2....

In this post, we will compare Ethernet LAN and Wi-Fi connections while exploring their main differences. That way you will be able to choose the best internet connection for your use case. No one will obviously connect their smartphone or tablet with an ethernet cable. Thus for portable devices, Wi-Fi is a clear winner. Hence the focus here is on personal computers. Also Read: 7 Uses For The USB Port on Your Router...

PrimaryThis contains Messages from friends and family, as well as any other messages that don’t appear in other tabs (including SPAM which may have passed their enhanced filter). PromotionsThis contains your deals, offers, and other promotional emails. SocialNow, this is a great innovation. Most of us were already getting nagged my finding our inboxes with notifications from our Facebook (mostly) and twitter. Well, this tab has now got your back covered....

The allure of Google Duo is in its simplicity and size. The app comes in at 5MBs but as they say, size doesn’t matter and in this case it doesn’t. The engineering team at Google put in some overtime to make Duo the superfast, lightweight little monster that it is. Duo, which will available for iOS and Android is said to adjust audio and video quality to accommodate whatever internet connection you’re currently connected to and the call will go through on a not-so-good internet connection....

Grey formerly known as Aboki Africa is a website designed to help Africans get foreign accounts to receive and make foreign payments online. In this post, I’ll show you how this financial app works and how to get your own foreign virtual account How Grey Works Although Grey’s targeted Africans, you can only send and receive money to your Nigerian account at the moment. Unlike most financial apps, you can also carry out transactions and make payments directly on the website....

Airtel Kenya has been conspicuously missing in the 4G scene. They have been battling regulators in courts in a very messy tassel for operating licenses and while the outcome hasn’t been that clear, the operator has openly been testing their 4G network and if you’re lucky you can have a feel of it too before their official launch. To access a 4G network, there are a few prerequisites. Your carrier has to have a 4G network that’s operational....

A year ago, YouTube Music users were thrilled by the introduction of ‘Recap‘ (its version of ‘Spotify Wrapped‘). Wrapped by Spotify makes available to users a detailed analysis of their listening habits for a one-year period. The analysis includes metrics like minutes listened, favorite acts and artists, most listened-to tracks, and so on. YouTube Music subscribers are treated to something similar in ‘Recap‘. YouTube Music Recap shows users their top streamed artists, songs, and music videos for the year....

As a result, our smartphones often house countless priceless memories of our family and friends, those scenic road trips, and everything in between, including some….scandalous images that might be detrimental if they ever found their way anywhere else other than your phone. Google Photos allows you to safely and securely store these images in the cloud so you won’t have to bear the loss of your beloved photos in the unfortunate event of the loss of the device....

If you ever find yourself in such a scenario, you need not worry, there are ways around it. You can get back deleted photos from your Android or iOS smartphone via the following route. Using Third-Party Apps One interesting thing about the smartphone ecosystem is that there is literally an app for everything, particularly on the Google PlayStore for devices running the Android OS. For retrieving pictures you deleted by mistake, there are apps that designed for such purposes....

At their event, HMD also announced the strengthening of their partnership with Google. This will see new Nokia devices runGoogle’s AndroidOne or AndroidGo software. This is in line with Nokia’s promise of a lean OS that is as close as possible to AOSP, and what better way to deliver on that front than to let Google deal with the software bit entirely. Nokia 6 2017 Nokia 6 was one of the best mid-range devices with its sleek unibody construction, a clean version of Android and the promise of constant software updates and support....

Today, we discuss how to add and delete friends on SnapChat. Adding Friends. This can be done in very many ways. We shall discuss six of those ways here. By Username Find out your friend’s username. The main way people add each other is by sharing usernames. This allows you to add people that aren’t in your phone’s contact list. There is no way to add someone using an email address or real name....

Safe mode is a diagnostic mode of a computer operating system. It also refers to a mode of operation by application software. In Windows, safe mode only allows essential system programs and services to start up at boot. This way, you are able to isolate a problematic driver or program and uninstall it. We will get into detail on what sort of things you can do when booted into safe mode in another post....

If you have a Smart TV with WiFi capabilities, casting media from your Windows 10 laptop or PC is easier than you think. But if your TV doesn’t WiFi support, you can still use the good-old HDMI cable to connect your TV to your Laptop of course. If you are sure your TV has WiFi connectivity and Miracast by extension, then you are all set. All you have to do is make sure that your laptop and Smart TV are on the same wireless network....

Furthermore, because Google Sheets is a web-based application, data sharing with other people becomes easier. Collaborating with others (colleagues at work, friends & family) to get work done is also seamless. This article will teach you how to collaborate in Google Sheets with others. You’ll learn to invite collaborators, drop comments and work with them seamlessly to make work easier. Related Article: Google Docs vs Microsoft Word: Which Should You Use...

The reason why the K3 Note battery and indeed those most high-end smartphones drain fast is simple. The technology behind battery durability has not kept pace with other device enhancements. The Lenovo K3 Note power consumption details show the Wi-Fi (WLAN), Screen and Signal standby as the major culprits behind battery drain. Heavy use of your device will have the battery drain in about 5 hours tops. The Lenovo K3 Note has measures to curb is excessive battery drain you might not be aware of....

Although it’s not every time you’d need to pick up text from an image, but should you ever need to copy texts from a picture into Microsoft Office, capture the texts of an error message in a pop-up window, or generally, extract text from a window where texts can’t be selected, use any of the methods below. For mobile users, see how to copy text from an image on your (Android) smartphone....