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Read More: How to cancel a subscription on Google Play Store As the official Android app store, Google Play Store has an obligation to ensure that the apps on its platform are safe and hassle-free. However, it has to provide a serene environment for developers to flourish as well and with as little stress as possible. Nonetheless, the recent change in the review process is necessary considering the inconvenience some of the apps on the platform have cost users before it was removed....

Well, its back in another form as the Chromecast! The Chromecast which was announced today at Dogpatch Studios, San Francisco, is two-inch-long dongle that looks more like a USB flash drive, that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. It’s not really like a Roku or an Apple TV, and it has no graphical interface or remote control. Instead, you find the content on your phone or tablet and beam it to the Chromecast, just like beaming something from a phone to an Apple TV via AirPlay....

When I visited their rather colorful booth in the UMA exhibition hall Lugoggo which was filled with young and enthusiastic web engineers wearing black Gmail T-shirts, I was told that all that is needed is a description of your business for you to have a website. Obviously I was skeptical of the quality of work such an offer would provide. So I requested to view a sample site. My suspicions quickly vanished when one the exhibitioners navigated through a nicely designed website for a cake business owner they had developed....

Proxies and VPNs get a lot of attention, presumably due to the purpose they serve; encrypting your data and tunneling your connection to a different location so you appear as though you’re surfing from a different location. This is rather important for accessing geo-restricted content. One other unsung hero of the internet is DNS or Domain Name System. This is essentially an address book for the internet, as it converts URLs to IP addresses, a form that the internet understands....

Poco as a brand has seemingly been all about presenting Xiaomi devices under different names with little if anything at all, changed from the Xiaomi-made product. We have seen that with all Pocophones except the original Pocophone F1 and today, this trend is going one step further. Poco recently unveiled the Poco Watch, an interesting smartwatch that offers a lot of value for money with some smartwatch features stapled on top of fitness tracker features....

The conference centered on four areas: Accelerating innovations into practice No people left behind-‘Lo-tech and the last mile’ People, processes, and products Arts for health and social change. There was also a two-day hackathon, hosted by Andela Uganda. The team that won was Oocho Tech and they developed a glove they called BCT-Glove that provides a real-time and self-testing solution that helps to detect cancer in a private and no risk way....

How a Mifi works A MiFi will pick 3G or 4G LTE internet from the cell tower of your mobile operator. That’s why most MiFis come with a sim card which accurately identifies the device on the network. Some MiFi might include a Microsd card for extra functionality, but we have really found no use of an SD card slot. To share internet among multiple users, MiFis come with WiFi chips....

Unlike the old traffic lights whose green time is pre-set and fixed, the green time on the new ones comes on request by the pedestrian at the crossing junction, who presses it and then waits for it to flash for them to cross. If you don’t press the push button, the green light can’t show. The lights’ controllers are placed in small houses around the junctions, and work along sensors on top of the traffic lights that count the traffic volumes....

If you have plans to upload video content on YouTube at some point, whether as a brand or an individual, you’d need a channel. Think of it like your own space where you can update your audience and serve them appropriate content. As of 2020, there were more than 37 million YouTube channels out there. If you follow the steps in this article, you will be adding to this number in a bit....

The process of deleting a Facebook account is not hard. We shall show you how to delete your Facebook account with no option of retrieving it later. You cannot perform this process from the Facebook mobile app. Procedure: Go to Facebook’s delete site. Using a web browser, navigate to https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account by typing it into the address bar and pressing ↵ Enter. If you are not automatically logged in, enter the email address or phone number and password for your account, then click Log In....

However, as powerful as they have gotten, phones sometimes end up hanging or you have your apps freezing during use. App(s) freezing on your phone happens when your smartphone is not able to keep up with the ongoing tasks at hand thereby resulting in unresponsiveness or the crashing of the app(s) thereof. Everything on your phone is an app, ranging from the pre-installed system apps to the third-party apps you downloaded yourself or the ones the OEM put there for you....

Asides from showing that you’re a reliable candidate for whatever applications you need it for, it’s a great way to track your investments. With this, you can track your investment history, analyze trends and find better ways to diversify your stocks. Unfortunately, not a lot of investment apps offer the option to download your account statements. A significant lot of apps like Piggyvest will require mailing customer support and waiting for a few days before you can get it....

However, sometimes, you’d like to know what your day looks like way before you start it. Thankfully, there’s a feature that allows you to get a morning email containing all events of your day. You’d get this email as early as 5 am so it’s the first thing you review before you start the day. This feature is super helpful because not only do you have a heads-up about your daily schedule, but you also don’t have to load up your Google Calendar to access it....

Tor Browser Also known as the Onion Router, Tor is a specially designed Internet routing system that routes traffic while encrypting the IP address of where it came from. To enable routing, only the last and next IP addresses are available at each hop. The original and all other hops along the way are encrypted and can only be decrypted by a Tor router. You can access the Tor network by using the Tor browser, which is simply a plug-in to the open-source browser, Firefox....

Before you can go ahead to read this article, please be sure to know that this process may not be fully online as some aspects may/will require you to visit offices for payments, name assessments, etc. Nevertheless, let’s go down this rabbit hole and see how you can get your unique name reserved online. Name Search We already have an article covering how you can search for registered and reserved names online using the URSB Portal....

You took a little vacation to Tanzania, and rightfully so, it is a beautiful place. There are so many places to go, you decide to do it all, after all, you only live once. You get on random shopping sprees and before you know it, you’re on the rocks, you’re broke. You hit up your boys and they are willing to sort you out..but you’re in Tanzania man, how do they sort you?...

For example, an iPhone user is working and wants to receive only work-related messages and notifications. They can set their focus to reflect this so they’re not distracted during work. Instead of shutting every notification out, which Do Not Disturb does, Focus lets you streamline them by relevance. In this post, we’ll take you through how to use the new Focus mode on your iPhone. Please note that you can only use this mode if/when you’re on iOS 15....

If you have lost your physical remote, you can control your TV or Chromecast with the Google TV Remote App on your Android phone. The prerequisite is that your phone and the TV/Chromecast must be on the same WiFi network. This is very key, otherwise, it won’t work. Read more: Top 7 Google TV features you should know To get started, you need to install the Google TV App from the Google Play Store....

Before we proceed, we’d like to note that there are still a number of admirable features that the Huawei Band 7 comes with. More on this in our list of features we love. Related How To Setup the Huawei Band 7How to Reset your Huawei Band 7 Now, for what the Huawei Band 7 is, here are some of the things that we didn’t like about it. Should you have something you don’t like on yours, please leave a comment in the comments section at the bottom of this post....

It sounds like a solution looking for a problem. A technology that allows networked devices in the home connected by different network media to operate as if they were connected across a single medium. Yes its true, TCP/IP already allows you to do that, routing packets from, network attached storage linked to a router over an Ethernet cord across to a TV that might be linked to the router wirelessly or over a power line bridge....