In Uganda, Netflix can be enjoyed for $7.99 (about Ugx 28,000) per month at www.netflix.com/ug/ . For starters, Netflix is offering you one month free trial, however, you must sign-up with a working credit or debit card with some money to enjoy this offer. Also since it’s an internet service, you need an active internet package of not less than 1GB to use the service. We warn that you can’t use “MBs” to use Netflix....
Design and Display The device comes with a 6.52-inches IPS HD+ display, with 720 x 1600 pixels resolution, and a 19.5:9 ratio. The screen is tall and will make it difficult to use one hand although Tecno compensates for that by including the one-hand mode. The phone weighs 169 grams which is very light and comes in the Dawn Blue, Dark Jade, and Sky Cyan colors. On top of the display, there’s a waterdrop notch that houses a 16MP front-facing camera with a double front-facing flash....
How? You ask? Well, Tecno devices often pack really big battery cells and impressive camera performance, metrics that are important to the African market. Well, Tecno is seeking to further solidify its position in the Kenyan market by introducing yet another device to cater for the entry-level segment of the market, the Tecno Pouvoir 4. This device comes to succeed last year’s rather popular Tecno Pouvoir 3 that wowed us with its impressive battery life....
The new update v.3.10 goes one step further with the ability the ability to play videos straight from Telegram where once the video prompted to open with the Android video player or the YouTube app. The inbuilt video player comes soon after Telegram added an audio player which can play an audio file (podcast, audio recording, song…) you shared with your friend. The audio file won’t stop playing when you leave the chat where it’s playing from....
With no internet, there will be no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Netflix, Whatsapp or whatever your poison is. So finding a suitable data bundle to keep you connected becomes vital. It is at that point that we begin to look at cost versus volume versus speed but thanks to Vodafone Uganda, there is a bundle specifically designed to keep us connected over the weekend If you are like me, your wife, daughter and friends will all be asking for the password to your MiFi or router so that they can stay connected....
As you might already know, rebranding online is a lot different from rebranding offline. Your brand online isn’t just your name, it’s also your domain name. If you think you got a light-bulb moment that got you excited about your idea with that a cool name, better pray that the domain name of your idea also exists. If you want a dot-com, the odds are that it doesn’t exist as was the case with us....
Here are the details. What is ISACA all about? The Information Systems Audit and Controls Association (ISACA) is a leading global provider of knowledge, certifications, community, advocacy and education on information systems (IS) assurance and security, enterprise governance and management of IT, and IT-related risk and compliance. It also advances and attests IT skills and knowledge through the globally respected Certified Information Systems Audit (CISA), certified information Systems Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) and Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC) designations....
Unlike LCD displays that need a backlight to be always on for the display to work, OLED displays light up individual displays. This means that black areas of the display do go all the way off. It is worth noting what Android natively supported Dark mode as from Android 9 Pie. Other skins like Samsung’s OneUI or Xiaomi’s MIUI have had this for much longer. Many app developers have been able to implement some form of dark mode to take advantage of this....
Older speakers use an AUX input port which you use to connect to them via cable. The benefit of analog wired speakers is that they sound pretty good. There’s no distortion in sound created by interference or distance that plagues newer shiny wireless Bluetooth speakers. However, the advantage of wireless speakers is that they are more versatile, portable, and sound considerably well. To turn your old wired speakers into wireless speakers, you need an Aux to Bluetooth receiver or adapter....
According to the Commission, “the use of biometrics for verification and authentication at the polling station represents the best solution in strengthening the integrity of voter identification during the polling process.” How it works? “This system basically uses fingerprints to match voter details which will help the elections officer to confirm that the voter is on the roll of that polling station. Most of these details such as name, age and location are from the National ID Project....
The Education system gets an overhaul Uganda stops being landlocked! eGovernment makes the government more accountable
It is, perhaps, in recognition of this that Kenyan tech publication, Gadgets Africa and the Nation Media Group have partnered to bring is the Vifaa Tech Festival, an expo that will allow consumers and brands to connect, showcase and usher in future technologies in the region. The festival’s aim is to offer a platform that should then spark conversations around issues such as consumer technologies beyond gadgets, while showcasing flagship products, and technology that can then be useful to millions of Africans....
) has been enjoying popularity for so long that there are hardly any people out there in the world who do not know what this software is. There might be individuals who still hesitate to install a VPN in their computers, but they surely know that this platform would enable them to access the internet privately and securely. The VPN would route their connection through a server and would hide their online presence from others....
In a blog post, Google defines appsperiments as ‘usable and useful mobile photography experiences built on experimental technology’. The approach was inspired in part by Motion Stills, an app developed by researchers at Google that converts short videos into cinemagraphs and time lapses using experimental stabilization and rendering technologies. The appsperiments replicate this approach by building on other technologies in development at Google. They rely on object recognition, person segmentation, stylization algorithms, efficient image encoding and decoding technologies, and perhaps most importantly, fun!...
What is an HDMI Splitter? HDMI Splitter is a device that is able to take the HDMI signal from a single source and output it to several display units. Typically, it takes an HDMI signal and duplicates it so it is able to send a video signal from one source to more than several displays. There are two types of HDMI Splitter; the HDMI Cable Splitter which is the basic form and Network Cable HDMI Splitter which is more ideal for more complex installations and connections over much longer distances especially the powered ones....
While these titans and squaring it out on the smartphone segment of the market, one player is slowly but surely curving a niche for itself in the feature-phone segment of the market. We all know what smartphones are, and although it seems like they’ve taken over the mobile phone market, it’s estimated only 30 percent of the world’s population owns one. That means 70 percent either doesn’t want one, can’t afford one, or is looking for an alternative....
African markets have peculiar needs that western markets may not have. So when you want to make a Smartphone for Africa, consider these things. Not All Of Africa Is On The National Grid With the exception of a few countries, it’s common knowledge that apart from major towns, a lot of Africa cannot access electricity and is in darkness yet they still own phones. trip to a couple of villages in Mityana a district in Central Uganda revealed that even though majority of the adult village population owned a phone, they had to incur heavy costs in charging the phone due to lack of electricity....
Accompanied by a brilliant video, the announcement was made by WhatsApp across its social media channels. Dark Mode is available for all users globally on both iOS and Android devices. On iOS, the WhatsApp Dark Mode interface has a “Pure Black” color while the Android version of the WhatsApp Dark Mode is more of a “Dark Gray” shade. Explaining the choice of color shade for the app’s Dark Mode, WhatsApp says that the color decision was made based on the need to minimize eye fatigue and improve readability....
Whatsapp now seeks to block users from forwarding information to more than five conversations. Users will be limited to forwarding a message only five times. Initially, the social media site limited messages to being forwarded 20 times. Around that time, it also started labeling forwarded messages and removed the quick forward button next to images, videos and audio clips. Whatsapp argued that it would “Help keep Whatsapp the way it was designed to be: a private messaging app....
In a post released on the platform’s official blog today (April 3), WhatsApp announced that it has included a new feature that would allow users select people who can add them to groups. The new feature is tucked in the PRivacy settings menu of the app. When you navigate to Settings » Account » Privacy » Groups, you can either select: When you select “Nobody” however, users who want to add you to a group would be prompted to send you an invitation through a direct/private message....
