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According to Daniel Nanghaka from Internet Society, Internet in Uganda is growing very fast and the costs are reducing due to the multiple stakeholders and ISPs who have joined the sector. He applauded Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) for doing a great job but stressed that they need to be complimented by other stakeholders. This because they are regulators and protectors of consumer rights but in many ways may be handicapped and cannot to do everything....

You have made a very crucial decision to develop a website for your firm, organization or company and everyone that visits it applauds you for a very pretty website. However, have you ever taken trouble to try browsing this same website on a Mobile phone? More often than not, you will not like what your website looks when browsed off a mobile browser. If you experience the same, then you are not alone....

Now, in the last two or three weeks, I am constantly getting pop up adverts about fruit juice machines on any of the websites that I visit. So why was I seeing all these relevant adverts? That’s big data and digital advertising at play. Today, Google will know that your wife is pregnant by the internet searches she makes and Facebook will know whether your searching for a bigger house all based on the data you input in a site you visited or a post/status update made....

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....

In this post, I’ll take you through how to add your favorite websites and web pages (e.g Dignited) to your home screen and have immediate access to them. When you do this, it looks like an app (with its icon) on your home screen and blends with the other mobile apps. Read through. READ MORE: What Are iPhone Shortcuts And How to Use Them Add Website to iPhone Home Screen Follow the steps below to learn how to add a website or web page to your iPhone home screen....

Do you live in a multi-lingual house or would you just like to know what Google Assistant will sound like in your local language? We will be showing you how to change Google Assistant voice and language in this article. How to Change Google Assistant Voice On your smartphone, you can either open the Google Home app or just use the hot word: “Hey Google”.When Google Assistant opens, tap on the profile icon at the top-right corner....

Back in the days, to know your results fast, you had to either know of someone in the board that could give you a hint, or base on your teachers’ impressions based on what they heard from marking centers. Gone are such days. This is done by sending a simple sms to 6600. For P7 results, go to messages on your phone and type PLE Index No e.g. PLE 000001/001 For S4 results, go to messages on your phone and type UCE Index No e....

Microsoft releases an updated version of the Windows operating system every six (6) months. Hence, if you’re not a very conscious person, you are most likely stuck on a rather old version of the windows 10. Well, good thing is, you can check this and make updates if necessary. Asides the versions, there are a number of Windows 10 editions. This includes Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows 10 Pro, and Windows 10 Enterprise....

If you have forgotten the WiFi password of a network you previously connected to on your smartphone, here’s how you can check it on your smartphone. As mentioned earlier, there’s no direct way to check login credentials of WiFi networks on your smartphone. But with third-party apps, you can view the passwords of the network you are currently connected to as well as the passwords of all secured WiFi network your phone has ever connected to....

Unfortunately other than the Roku Ultra, Roku streaming devices such as the Roku Express, Express 4K, Streaming Stick+, Streambar don’t have an Ethernet port. But if you have a TCL Roku Smart TV, chances are that it might have an Ethernet port. In this case, no additional hardware is required to connect your Roku Smart TV to a wired network. So let’s talk about the Roku streaming devices and how to connect them to the internet via a wired network....

For a lot of people, Google Sheets, alongside other Google work products; Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Forms, etc, have become the go-to platforms for productive work, at the expense of platforms like Microsoft’s Spreadsheet app, Excel. This is largely because of collaboration ability, ease of use, and the fact that it is a free online tool (Microsoft Excel comes with a subscription fee). However, because Google Sheets isn’t as robust (in terms of built-in formulas and functionalities) as Microsoft Excel, people who use spreadsheets for serious data analysis and visualization still consider Excel a superior platform....

All you need to do is install it on both devices do, minimal pairing configuration, and you are good to go. We will walk you through it step-by-step. Also Read: Link your Android phone and PC with Microsoft Launcher Download and Install the App First, you need to download the app on both your Windows PC and Android smartphone. For your PC head to the Alt-C website to download the Windows installation file....

Check out: How to tell bluetooth version on your Windows 10 PC and Mac How to Enable Dark Mode on macOS Mojave It is quite easy to bring darkness to your Mac computer now – pun intended. All you have to do is open the Apple menu (that Apple logo on your home screen) and click on ‘System Preferences‘. A window will open, then you click on ‘General‘. In front of ‘Appearance‘, you will see an option for either ‘Light‘ or ‘Dark‘....

The following guide is quite simple really bute being simple doesn’t mean that it won’t tease the best of us. So we have added a bunch of red direction arrows. Follow the arrows and you will find your password in a jiffy. Here goes: Step 1 Right click on the WiFi icon on the Taskbar system tray and select ‘Open Network and Sharing Center’ Step 2 Select ‘Change adapter settings‘ in the window that opens after step 1...

Hate the company all you want but we all agree on one thing, their services, however expensive, are good quality. They go the extra mile to make services accessible to its customers. Safaricom has two simple ways for its users to get their MPESA mini-statements. USSD Method To get your MPESA statement, follow tyhe following simple steps on your Safaricom line. Dial *234# using the MPESA line you’d like to get the statement for....

It is for this reason that Microsoft decided to ditch its feeble attempts at pulling off another Internet Explorer dominance by basing the new Microsoft Edge on Google Chrome’s open-source Chromium project. Initial reviews point to a more coherent user experience in the new Microsoft Edge with the same close ties to Microsoft but with a more Google Chrome-look and feel. At the time of writing, the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is available on Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS....

If you are planning to get started with this online application; we already have an article covering how you can apply for one within a short period of time. So let’s get started with MTN Uganda. This method works regardless of the payment option you choose because a PRN is auto-generated after submission. How To Generate a PRN For your Uganda Revenue Authority Payments Online Paying using MTN Uganda Here is how you can settle the PRN for your passport using MTN And whaMoMo...

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....

Well, there are a bunch of ways to transfer your chats over and restore WhatsApp, seamlessly. Some methods are more complex than others, so we are going to cover just two that, to us, are relatively simple. Using Google Drive For quite a while now, WhatsApp has supported proper backups to Google Drive, at least on Android. More on that here. In 2018, it was announced that WhatsApp backups would not count against your Google Drive storage....

The offline file sharing part is one of the most amazing features of Google’s Files app. Without internet, you can send videos, apps, pictures, large files and any other documents with your friends at a super fast speed of 480Mbps over an encrypted WPA2 direct WiFi network. The Google Files app offline sharing mechanism is somewhat similar to Apple’s AirDrop feature that allows users share files using a secure hotspot connection....