Author: Smart Megwai

Spam texts can be very annoying. You get a notification, stop what you are doing to check your phone only to discover that someone is trying to sell you something you don’t need. How can you stop this? Unfortunately, there are no measures against text spam. However, there are ways…

CribMD, a healthtech startup in Nigeria, has announced the acquisition of Charisland Pharmaceuticals Group. The purpose is to provide fast and efficient hourly drug delivery to patients in Nigeria. The acquisition follows in the move of CribMD’s $2.6 million initial cycle in May 2021 announced by the startup. According to…

Zoom has become one of the most popular video conferencing applications for professionals. This service provides reliability, video quality and many useful features for effective virtual meetings. Whiteboard is one such feature. Today I’m going to show you how to use the board for your Zoom presentations. You can create…

One of the latest privacy-related WhatsApp features is disappearing messages. This feature is already available on Android and will soon roll out to iOS users. It is rumored that this self-erasing feature will be tested in the Beta version of the app. But not for long as it will soon…

Not so long ago, you had to pick up your phone before responding to text a friend (even to write a message). You can now do this while on your computer. There aren’t many apps that can do this, but the ones available are actually pretty good. Here are the…

Adding captions to videos can be very helpful, especially for viewers who are hard of hearing or deaf. They can also be useful for people in an environment where there is no sound or headphones. Before the Short Video Platform added automatic captioning to the app in April this year,…

TikTok has become one of the most attractive platforms for content creators and other categories of users. However, this platform has many problems; the biggest of all are violent videos. The Short Video sharing platform is already facing various investigations in this regard, including temporary bans in some areas due…

Water resistance was once a special feature of smartphones, usually associated with Sony devices and rugged smartphones. Fast forward to 2021 and you’re likely to find IP ratings on many flagship phones, even mid-range ones. How can you be sure that your phone is still waterproof? So, an application called…

Sharing an image in a messaging application almost always results in a loss of quality. If you don’t share this image as a file, you risk losing pixels to the recipient. To address this issue, WhatsApp will soon release a feature that will allow users to choose whether to compress…

Some Facebook users have started to see ‘Threads’ options that would allow them to add new posts on related topics in previous posts. Just a minute! It’s not completely similar to the Twitter ‘threads’ feature. This feature allows for more visual linking of posts, allowing fans to follow updates from…

The internet can be a scary place, especially for kids. But it can also be a great tool to help children explore the world and acquire valuable skills. When it comes to nurturing curiosity, protecting children is paramount. There are laws that prevent kids from opening Gmail accounts, but Google…

Over the years, the Amazon Fire Kids tablet has been one of the best Android tablets for kids and has earned the trust of parents. The main reasons are the price of Amazon tablets and the amazing Amazon Kids software. Well, Google is building its own software to give parents…

Instagram is introducing a new anti-abuse option on the platform. This time it’s focused on limiting the actions of some kind of followers rather than disabling or restricting individual accounts. As you can see in the above screenshot, there is a new ‘Limits’ option in the Privacy settings, allowing you…

Microsoft is giving its employee a $1,500 pandemic bonus. The software company says it wants to recognise with its staff the unique and challenging fiscal year it just completed. According to the company’s chief people officer, Kathleen Hogan, all qualified workers in both the US and universally are beneficiaries of…

Every social media platform has a way of sharing each other’s content — images, videos, memes, and more. But Instagram is an exception. You can only tag or mention people while commenting for them to see a piece of content that was posted, but there is no way you can…

Location Technology is very helpful for tracking lost phones, finding a nearby hospital, hotel, petrol station, etc. However, the level of insecurity these days is alarming and so there’s a need to restrict certain apps that store information about what you are doing and where you’re going, on Internet servers. …

Do you see those offensive marketing messages which crowd your email inbox? They aren’t just pushing you a product but have been set up to track whether you opened the email, time and location you opened it. This is possible through pixels, which, often, is embedded in the email, hidden…

In case you’re not aware, Google has a feature that allows users to share files between two Android devices. It’s called Nearby Share and operates just like a feature on Apple called ‘AirDrop’. With Nearby Share, you are allowed to share files, links, etc., faster to other Android users through…

TikTok is granting content creators the option to share richer stories and entertainment that are up to three-minute in length. Drew Kirchhoff, the company’s Product Manager, made this announcement today in a blog post. “We’re introducing the option for our global community to create longer videos – paving the way…

Zoom has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions – kites, GmbH (“Kites”), a German start-up dedicated to developing real-time Machine Translation (MT) solutions. Both companies are yet to reveal the terms of the agreement, but the partnership with Kites will give Zoom a team of top…