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In this post, I’ll highlight all you need to know about the Continuity Camera that comes with the macOS Ventura and what it can do for you. Read through. READ MORE: WWDC 2022: Here’s Everything Apple Announced at the Conference Continuity Camera: What Can You Do With It? Here are a couple of instances where Apple’s Continuity will be very useful to you. Handoff Using Continuity, your Mac can automatically recognize and use the camera on iPhone when it is nearby....

However, for a while now, the privilege of hailing a ride has been exclusive to major towns as many of these players only focus on the cuties. In Kenya, That is Nairobi and Mombasa; although operations in Kisumu have launched. One player that is pushing to break that status quo is Bolt (formerly Taxify). In June, the company expanded its operations to Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika towns. As the festive season gets into high gear and many Nairobians are expected to be heading to the countryside, Bolt is looking to make a kill by making its services available in many more towns....

Predictably, the next hurdle you’d need to cross after choosing which smartphone you want to buy is WHERE to buy it from. To further niche down on our prediction, you are most likely conflicted, particularly if it’s your first time buying a smartphone for yourself or someone else: to buy online or offline at a nearby phone store? Sometimes, this question is born out of convenience and other times, out of price/cost involved....

Because some service providers or app developers choose to launch their services in certain regions — mostly the U.S — you won’t be able to download these apps in the App stores. That sucks if you really want to use that App. This is especially true for streaming Apps such as Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Pluto, IMDB TV, Hulu etc. If you really have to use these apps that aren’t available in your region, you’ll have to change your region/country in the respective App store settings....

Windows and macOS laptops are more likely to be more expensive and heavier than Chromebooks, but they offer more versatility. Here’s what you need to know about the key differences between Chromebooks and Windows laptops. Chromebooks vs normal laptops: Operating system Chrome OS and Windows are operating systems that power computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices. They both use apps to let you do different things on your computer — like write emails or play games — but they’re not the same thing....

The platform provides a number of features that make automated savings and investments very easy for the consumer. Serving only the Nigerian market at the moment, Cowrywise gives users a range of packages including automated savings, mutual funds investments, dollar investments, and more. This post will highlight almost everything you need to get started with saving and investing on Cowrywise. It includes popular questions, inquiries, and even a few tips to help use the platform efficiently....

ATM cards usually have several digits written on them (on both sides; front and rear) and if you are the type that perform a lot of online transactions, you probably will be familiar with these digits. In fact, you may know them by heart already or have them saved in your browser for faster checkout. On the other hand, if you basically use your ATM cards for point-of-sale (POS) transactions or cash withdrawals at ATM stands, you might be oblivious of the existence and importance of these numbers on your debit card....

The partnership will involve a logistical, financial and marketing symbiosis between the two companies. eBay is looking to get a foothold on the African continent, whose online spending habits are expected to grow to over $75 billion by 2025. A partnership with an already established e-commerce platform eases the challenges of starting up the business in a new unfamiliar territory. MallforAfrica as well will bump up sales and traffic, adding eBay to other prestigious partnerships such as Macy’s....

Now, at the recent Swedish Ugandan ICT conference: Dorothy Okello, the commnications officer at the College of Engineering, Design Art and Technology at Makerere University invited Ericsson to pitch camp on the campus and open up an innovations lab. She decried continued sidelining by Telecom giants to the university. From the turn of events, Ericsson’s top managers invited her for further talks on how the idea could be executed. Infact, it’s only Microsoft that set up a student’s and research hub at the College of Computing....

So far the project has been launched in Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia among select African countries. In a video post made by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook announced in partnership with Airtel Africa that they will be bringing Internet.org free basic services to all 17 countries where they operate. These new Internet.org launches will bring free services to Burkina Faso, Chad, Gabon, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone and Uganda....

Now the social giant plans to translate its social network to “Ganda” or commonly known as the Luganda language via a crowd-sourced model. Luganda is one the major languages if not the most spoken one in the country. There are about 5.5 million Baganda whose native language is Luganda of the 40 million people in the country. Related post: Mozilla Uganda community translates Firefox into Acholi Software localization for Africa is a controversial topic as Onapito opined in this article....

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. Wait, What is ELF? In computing, the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking Format), is a common standard file format for executable files, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps....

Google has even gone as far as to make sure that it encrypts all messages as they move between Google’s private data centers, a change from its previous policy of allowing messages to go between its data centers without encryption. This was a vulnerability that the NSA successfully exploited to hack into Google’s data centers and the company has gone to great lengths to patch it. Hence this is a welcome development because HTTPS ensures that your communications are secure in transit....

Turns out Google is now bringing peer-to-peer offline file sharing and communication to the core Android mobile operating system. Dubbed “Nearby Communication 2.0”, Google has opened up an API which enables developers create apps that allow offline media sharing and communication. Think about a “Whatsapp without an Internet” kind of thing. No need for internet bundles! The API specifies two designs as described in the Android blog; Star: Useful for creating 1:N topologies where there’s a centralized device that others are especially interested in....

Google street View enables you to explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses with 360-degree images on Google Maps. A big part of Kampala streets has been captured including surrounding suburbs. Some parts of Buwate for instance which is in Najjera have already been traversed. If you’re wondering why you didn’t see Google cars with cameras doing the image capturing, well that’s because the project wasn’t directly managed by Google according to our sources....

5G promises faster data speeds of between 50Mbps to as much as 1.8Gbps depending on the standard. As of this year, the GSA reports over 77 commercially available 5G smartphones. Big mobile heavyweights like One plus, Samsung, TCL, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Nokia have one or two of their smartphones with 5G support. Google and Apple is surprisingly missing in action although the coming iPhone 12 is said to support 5G....

However, despite the many advantages that different types of phone cases might offer you and your device, you actually do not need them. Here are some reasons why. 1. Phone cases don’t offer 100% protection Majority of individuals that slap a case on their smartphone as soon as they buy it do so because they want to use their phone as long as possible. Some do it so their device(s) would stay just as it was out-of-the-box and have a higher resale value....

In Nigeria, Tingg has been operating very successfully as a fully-fledged comprehensive digital financial services product. Its genesis was the implementation of the GES project in which Cellulant developed a mobile e-wallet to facilitate the transfer of mobile money to farmers as subsidies from the Nigerian Government. The GES project went to become one of the largest and most impactful Agritech solutions in Africa. Mula is one of those apps that you just need to have as a Kenyan....

256 Kbps — which fun fact is also Uganda’s country code — is the speed that your internet will drop to once you have climaxed your data cap. This is especially true for users who are subscribed to “unlimited” internet bundles. For instance Smile Uganda will throttle your speeds to 256 Kbps from 2Mbps once you clock 100GB mark for Smile’s UnlimitedEssential plan while MTN Uganda’s new Basic Plan will drop you to 256 Kbps up from 2Mbps once you max 1GB a day until the next day....

Now the Fire TV Stick was first launched back in 2014. This device has since gone through three generations. The latest generation as of 2022 is the Fire TV Stick 3rd generation announced in 2020. This Fire TV Stick has two models; the Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite. The difference between the two models is Fire TV Stick comes with a remote that includes TV controls while the Lite doesn’t....