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According to a press release by Facebook, Internet.org app is meant to make the internet accessible to more people by providing a set of free basic services. With the app, people can browse a set of useful health, employment and local information services without data charges Facebook says. By providing free basic services via the app, the giant social network hopes to bring more people online by showing them the value of the internet....

A fingerprint padlock is a keyless lock that uses your fingerprint as the key to unlock it. It comes with a fingerprint reader similar to what you have on your Smartphone. The reader scans your fingerprint to unlock the padlock. It’s battery-powered and can be recharged via micro USB port. So instead of the key hole, you instead get a microUSB or USB-C port for charging it. The battery could take upto a year without needing recharging....

If you haven’t yet made the connection, Infinix has a cousin already entrenched in the Ugandan market which perhaps explains why they took their sweet time to cross the Malaba border. We are talking about non other than Tecno Mobile, and the resemblance is a dead giveaway. We will show you a picture to this effect in a later post so you can see for yourself. Without much further ado, let’s get down to business...

Terry also said that Windows is currently used by 1.5 billion people globally. Going by these statistics, Microsoft definitely had to rethink how Windows works especially after the unending challenges they faced with Windows 8 and 8.1. It’s this rethinking that has seen Windows finally making a unified OS that they promise to work seamlessly across all devices. Here’s what we know now about Windows 10 so far Start Button is back and more functional this time After numerous complaints around the world because Windows 8 had no start button, Microsoft decided to bring it back....

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....

You can decide if you wish Google to share your data with a trusted family member or delete it. This is why Google has a provision for helping you plan what happens when you can’t use your Google account. To get started, visit the page myaccount.google.com/inactive. Click on Start. You can then choose the amount of time Google should trigger your plan. The default time is 3 months. But you can choose between 3, 6, 12 and 18 months....

Here are your choices should you wish to send money to Uganda. Remit.ug (Now useremit.com) Built by local firm Redcore Interactive, Remit.ug offers real-time debit / credit card to mobile-money transfers from all over the world to registered mobile-money users in Uganda. From your credit card to grandma’s feature phone, how cool is that? All you need to get started is setup an account with them, add a Visa/Master card and then enter the receiver’s phone number....

Email-to-SMS enables mobile subscribers to access their most important emails on the go, without an internet connection on virtually any phone that supports SMS on the orange network. This can come in really handy for those users that are not always seated in front of a computer or if you happen to leave office. Also following the rampant load shedding that has been forcefully taking down my computer and power hungry Droid phone for some hours, I have had to rely on my second feature phone to receive urgent and critical emails through SMS thanks to Orange’s Email-to-SMS product....

But because of competition, or even transmission capabilities, each of these service providers has specific channeling that you might not find else where. This can prompt you to buy yet another decoder – to have the variety right in your sight. So, with two decoders in your living room, here is how you can connect them to one television set. This is highly dependent on your TV set having two or more Audio/Video (A/V) connection points....

Non-Disclosure agreements The first step in protecting your website is to sign what is called a Non-disclosure agreement also called a Confidentiality agreement. This should be signed at the discussion level usually before any information about the website is disclosed to the developer. A Non-disclosure agreement is an agreement that protects the disclosure of information between the parties and provides for penalties in case such information is disclosed in breach of the agreement....

It therefore, goes without saying that any Windows announcement is met with a lot of attention from the whole tech scene as it effectively points at the direction that most of the industry will be moving towards owing to the ubiquity of this operating system. Back in 2015, we saw Microsoft unveil Windows 10, along with the announcement that this was going to be the last version of Windows as thereon, the company would maintain this system as a service....

Hi2shop.com just opened shop and they mean business. The online shopping store is coming with a big bang giving out some shopping coupons upon registration and Free delivery around Kampala. The site has a broad category of items to shop from and that includes home entertainment, mobile phones, computers, health and beauty, fashion, sports, automobiles. Under the electronics and home appliances category, the sites deals in the big brands you are familiar with such as Samsung, Apple, Sony, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Ebon, Hisense, Mika, Ariston, Elekta....

History of SafeBoda SafeBoda was founded in 2014 to give riders and passenger the safest travel experience on a motorbike in and around Kampala. It then hit the play store in January of 2017 and later the IOS app store in September that year. SafeBoda is the brainchild project of Ricky Papa Thompson (the startup’s co-founder) who was a commercial Boda Boda rider himself. This was motivated after witnessing the death of a close friend in an accident in 2013....

We have sought the expert knowledge needed and are here to present it. Regardless of which Internet Service Provider (ISP) you are using to access your data, the billing methodology is the same. The difference may only come, in the how this technology is used to implement the charging mechanism. Packet Charging The most commonly used mechanism is Packet Charging, a widely implemented system by many telecoms and ISPs. Here, a provider will capture and count the number of packets, or the bits of data, exchanged between the network and the subscriber’s device SIM card in a session....

But before i fell for bait, i noticed some pointers that saved me. Some malicious hackers are on the lose and cyber crime is on rampage these days. This could save you or somebody else you know. First the sender’s email address isn’t from Google If this email was legitimate, the sender’s email should have come from Google, and not from some domain name(system-support.com) i’ve no idea about! An email from Google should have been something like “[email protected]” or “[email protected]” or “[email protected]” but not “[email protected]”....

However, even though Google Search owns a huge portion of the search engine market share (about 92%), there are other search engines out there that you can (and should) try out. Related Article: 7 great privacy focused search engines alternatives to Google Why Should You Try out Another Search Engine Bing (the second most used search engine after Google), for instance, offers unique features like image search, games, a totally different homepage feel, all to make browsing experience an awesome one....

Luckily, cleaning your PC’s keyboard does not take too much time or effort if the due procedure is followed. In addition, a neat keyboard is as good as new and goes a long way in strengthening its life span. Ideally, cleaning the keyboard should be carried out once or twice a month depending on the dirt involved. Perhaps, you spilled food substances or drinks on your keyboard and you need to clean it, this keyboard cleaning tutorial/guide will show you how....

Spotify is the world leader in music streaming but remains unavailable in many regions. Deezer is the next best thing and I have been using it for many months now. It is a really decent service and I would love to get more of my friends on board. But asking them to install and pay for a service isn’t motivation enough now, is it? How about gifting them? Deezer Gift Cards This is exactly what it sounds like....

Of course, the social media giant created a way for Facebook videos to be saved for latter views without doing long searches. You can simply add them to your Saved Items, and view them whenever you want. Actually there’s a but; you need data to view them. So, the aim of this article is to guide you on how to download Facebook videos that can entertain you anytime you want irrespective of your online status....