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Difference between Android TV and Smart TV (CTV)

2021-10-27T12:35:00.006+03:00

Isn't an Android TV a Smart TV? Which one is for you?

Hello there reader, been asked this question by friends, clients and online followers and I guess it's high time I do justice for everyone out there. What are Smart TVs and Android TVs? Isn't an Android TV a Smart TV?

Let's get to know the answers to those and many other questions regarding the above topic...

Android TV Remote App not Connecting [Solved]

2021-10-25T23:26:00.006+03:00

Android Smartphone Remote App cannot find Android TV device...

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There are so many Android TV remote apps on Google Play TV Store and phone Store, by now if you are an Android TV owner am sure you have seen the different features they have individually. However, whichever one you are using, the way it connects to the Android TV is the same. Today. let's know the ways to fix remote connection problem between the app and the TV.

Google Adsense: Anchor ads coming to wider screens [Explained Update]

2021-07-26T14:21:00.004+03:00

Wide screens: Desktops, Smart screens...great news to content creators

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Is it really good news to content creators who have their content connected to Adsense Ads? What does it really mean? What are Anchor Ads? ...Anchor Ads are more like Overlay Ads which have been there for a very long time, Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing options have been using it for Mobile Advertising. I personally have been fond of it because lets say it doesn't take much space but sends the message home to the reader.

Let's talk about Anchor Ads today... What is an Anchor Ad? Why use the word anchor in naming an ad?

Explained: The new Microsoft Surface Duo

2020-08-13T20:03:00.002+03:00

A new way to work on the go

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All right guys, am sure you were waiting for a foldable screen smartphone like the rest are doing. No no no, Microsoft is venturing that idea in another way. The Microsoft Surface Duo is a smartphone with Dual, high-resolution PixelSense™ Fusion Displays which open to a 8.1" for more space to get things done. A new smarter way to work on your hands on the go with an innovative 360° hinge, two screens, and apps that seamlessly work together.

Microsoft recently did show its next device, the Microsoft Surface Neo which will kinda look like a bigger Surface Duo. Well, that is a talk for next time, for today let's dive into the Surface Duo...

Uber destroys Jump's electric bikes and scooters, why?

2020-05-29T22:13:00.003+03:00

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Shocked, right? What is Jump in the first place? In April 2018, Uber said it would focus more on its electric bike and scooter business than on cars and started Jumps. Jump is an electric bike share company with an app where you can find and rent and electric bike or a scooter so that you can "jump" to your destination. Let's jump to why they destroyed thousands of electric bikes and scooters.

Gionee Care Shop Nairobi, Kenya

2020-05-18T22:21:00.007+03:00

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Gionee is a China-based electronic company established in the year 2002 and has launched several budget friendly Android smartphones. Among them being the P5Mini, P5W, P7, F103Pro, F205LITE, F205, M6LITE, S6S, S11LITE, X1S and the latest the F9 Plus launched in 4th September 2019. Other products by Gionee are the Gionee Smart 'Life' Watches, Headphones, earphones, neckbands and powerbanks.
Away from all that -- I have been looking for the Gionee shop since last year and I thought (after checking online with no good luck) that its between Ngong road Prestige Junction and Yaya Centre but noooo, last weekend I found them and definitely not around anywhere there...

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Series (Specs)

2020-05-18T17:13:00.001+03:00

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it’s your moral obligation to sell it. Can an X1 fulfill your true need?

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Zig Ziglar one of my favourite salesman, Author and motivational speaker says "If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it’s your moral obligation to sell it." -- and to me a ThinkPad always fulfills my true need from the very first one and still to date and yes its my moral obligation to "sell" it out to you.
From the words of Seth Godin "Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers." Lenovo for me knows the right product for her customers. Today we are diving into the fabulous ThinkPad X1 Series family.
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Differences between Solid State Drive SSD and Hard Disk Drive HDD?

2020-05-14T17:45:00.001+03:00

…which one is BEST for you?

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Data storage components or devices have been evolving for decades while more information is being processed the more the space needed to store and retain digital data. Inside a computer’s Central Processing Unit (CPU) one of the main core function and fundamental component is memory (Computer Data Storage). There are four types of data storage, Primary Storage, Secondary Storage, Tertiary Storage and Off-line Storage.

Today we will talk about SSDs (Solid State Drive) and HDD (Hard Disk Drive) which are part of Secondary Storages, check out there differences and know which one is BEST for you.
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Turn Your Old Phone into A Home Surveillance Camera or Baby Monitor

2020-04-17T22:12:00.001+03:00

Reinstate Your Old Phone

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Electronic waste is becoming a major issue in our environment around the world and we all should rethink and come up with ways to use old electronic machines and devices whether broken or not there is always something you can do with it. Share how you have reused your old device in the comments below.
If your old phone(s) can still turn on, you can put it to good use in your home. If it works great with Google Home then you can connect it with your home speaker and have it as a Google Home Speaker. For me, today I thought of sharing how I reinstated my old phone to be a home/office cam, here's how I did it...

Windows 7 Support Lifecycle Ends - 10th Anniversary

2019-12-31T08:43:00.001+03:00

After 10 years 2009 - 2020, support for Windows 7 is nearing the end.

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The end of an awesome and stable era, Microsoft announces the end of technical assistance and software updates from Windows Update on Windows 7. After a 10 year commitment to provide product support for Windows 7 since its release on October 22, 2009, Microsoft Updates that help protect your PC will no longer be available for the product. Microsoft strongly recommends that you move to Windows 10 sometime before January 2020 to avoid a situation where you need service or support that is no longer available... Now lets talk a little more about this - Can you still use Windows 7?
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What is WiFi 6 - 802.11AX – 6GHz? – Speed, Coverage, latency and Performance

2019-11-18T19:55:00.000+03:00

Why Wireless Fidelity 6?

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As new technologies like smart home speakers, online games and video streaming coming up with higher network and internet dependancy plus higher video quality resolutions there is also a need to have high-end networking devices to counter this growth. 2019 marks 20 years of WiFi connectivity age and also marks the metamorphosis of 802.11ac to 802.11ax. What does this mean? Let’s get on with it.

We all know the difference between 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless connectivity bands, if not then click and read about it on the related posts link. Have we moved to 6GHz with WiFi 6? What is WiFi 6?
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Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 is out! Specifications

2019-10-31T17:13:00.000+03:00

Specifications and everything about new Lenovo’s most powerful 15.6" mobile workstation

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Hi there Tech fans and my fellow Lenovo ThinkPad fans, daaamn! I am so excited about this, aren’t you excited too? I have been a long-time lover of the ThinkPad series by Lenovo like forever and the way Lenovo keeps upgrading it ergonomically from the Japanese Bento lunchbox to its modern superb form and still keeping it’s great old industrial design features is just awesome.

ThinkPads are especially popular with businesses but now with the portability of a laptop and the performance of a workstation anyone can just use it for about anything. Talking about power, the P1 second generation goes to 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-9880H with vPro™ starting at 3.74 lbs (1.69 kg)… Do you know what that means? Carbon fiber chassis…
Now let’s get on with the new ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 workstation.

Made By Google Event 2019: Google Pixel 4, Nest WiFi, Nest Mini (2nd Gen), Nest Hub Max and Pixelbook Go

2019-10-17T11:18:00.000+03:00

Along with Pixel 4, Google unveiled new products shipping this September.

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Heey Whatsup guys, #MadeByGoogle 19 event happened and to me, it was awesome! How about you? Comment below otherwise there were announcements that did get me excited and happy.

Google has been unveiling and updating numerous products over the years at GoogleIO events and now Made by Google event. Their concern on the environment, making work easier with Internet Of Things (IoT) "ambient technology" and the new Pixel 4 camera were my highlights. Let's know more about the new Nest WiFi, the Nest Mini (2nd Gen), the Nest Hubs and the new Chromebook the Pixelbook Go.

Apple Music replaces iTunes

2019-10-15T12:43:00.000+03:00

‘Fall’ of iTunes is here, and rise/upgrade of Apple TV and Apple Podcast. What happens to my iTunes music?

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Hello fans, readers, and Apple devices fan too. Fall is here and we all know at this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 that took place in San Jose, California. Much was unveiled, updates were announced and promised to come this fall. Today we are on to iTunes, the fall of iTunes and the upgrade of Apple Music service, which has been around since 2015. iTunes was a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc and launched in the year 2001. All of that on one app was too much, right? Maybe yes or no but what does this mean to us and the ecosystem? Let’s see…

Telegram update: Scheduled Messages, Reminders and More Privacy features. Sept 2019

2019-09-09T23:59:00.000+03:00

New Old Telegram: Telegram still growing strong and beautiful

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...or is it old new Telegram? More themes to make it feel new. Hi Techies, glad to have you here. Am always excited when I see innovations growing and keeping on updating. Telegram celebrated its 6th birthday this year. For one I have been a great Telegram user plus thousand other users who even make money out of Telegram app - content creators, bloggers... you know yourselves. Comment below if you make money out of Telegram app.

Despite many other messaging apps the competition is tight, Telegram Messaging app keeps growing and updating - its users are unique same to its features. Telegram has many features like the normal messaging app features: video chat, emojis and not just emojis but animated ones that would make you smile even when sad, groups and other features like channels that hold more that 150k members and subscribers (talk of privacy), voting and commenting bots among many others. I use it for marketing, chatting, sending non compressed photos and videos to friends and saving photos on its cloud.

Data Mining: Data Rights are Human Rights

2019-07-24T18:21:00.001+03:00

The same technology that is connecting us together is the same that is breaking us apart.

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Hi techies, been busy. Today I feel like talking about an issue confronting my country together with the World. Lets talk about Data Rights and Protection especially in Kenya. Technology is growing very fast and its the biggest player in data mining.

The most important and most valuable commodity in our time has been data. What is Data? According to Information Technology - Data is unprocessed content yet to be turned to information which is useful for "consumption" and decision making. The most powerful and wealthiest companies in the World right now are those that hold the largest data of people in the World.

Google Street View listing and Google My Business [Instant]

2019-07-11T16:23:00.000+03:00

Discover your street, business, city... have people view your business before they arrive

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Street View, by Google Maps, was launched in several cities in the United States in 2007 but it has grown and now includes cities and rural areas worldwide, Kenya got Street View in Google Maps in the year 2018 but had already had an offer of 360-degree images of Samburu National Reserve added on to the map feature which made a mini debut in Kenya in 2015. To this, Google also launched Google My Business worldwide in 2014 which is a separate feature by Google to help businesses connect with their customers, giving business owners more control of what shows up in the search results when someone searches their business name.

Let us know more about Google Street View, Google Maps and how it enhances Google My Business and grow because if right now you still not on these platforms your business future is hanging...

Best Asus ZenBook Series (i5, i7 and i9 series)

2019-07-05T16:37:00.000+03:00

Future proof best Asus ZenBook Laptops from 6th - 8th Generation

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Hi Readers, a few years back we talked about the Chromebook series and mentioned a few of the Asus Chromebooks available so now we are basically looking into the top Asus ZenBook laptops that are currently blowing the laptop market.

Asus or AsusTek Computer Inc. is a Taiwan-based multinational computer and phone hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's 5th-largest PC vendor by 2018 unit sales. Asus appears in BusinessWeek's "InfoTech 100" and "Asia's Top 10 IT Companies" rankings, and it ranked first in the IT Hardware category of the 2018, 6th time in a row in Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands survey with a total brand value of US$1.619 billion.

Asus machines are no joke, they are the most recommended and used by Gamers especially the Republic Of Gamers (ROG). This is why most consumers go for Asus machines when high performance is their main specification.

To our topic, the Zenbook Series (ZenBook, ZenBook S, ZenBook Flip and ZenBook Pro).

KamiLimu Program: eLimu Kamili for Computer Science and Information Technology students

2019-05-20T23:19:00.001+03:00

An organization in a mission on Building Skills and Changing lives of Kenyan students

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Hello world, today we're heading on to a workshop to know what, how and why KamiLimu. Class has never been so educative and fun at the same time but now it is and more so building skills and changing lives. For a long time not only in Kenya it has been hard for Computer Science and Information Technology students to go through some problems given in class, you can look for someone to guide you through but most times in vain. YouTube, Stack Overflow and other sites have been a programmer's guide through problems and in the end you might pass the unit but without any much understanding - many graduands have graduated and ended up doing something else. KamiLimu has and is sorting that. Let us know what KamiLimu is, how it's sorting that out and why.

First of all the name, KamiLimu comes from two Swahili words ‘Kamili’ meaning Complete and ‘Limu’, which is a contraction of ‘ELimu’ meaning Education in English respectively making the slogan "eLimu Kamili.

KamiLimu is a free 6-8 month structured mentorship program that seeks to augment classroom learning for Computer Science students at Kenyan universities.

WinDirStat review: Free up disk space in your computer manually

2019-02-17T10:56:00.000+03:00

Restore vanishing Hard Disk space on Windows

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WinDirStat, weird name right? Not really, welcome to the nerds and geeks world - Windows Directory Statistics. Hi, readers... been a long time. Allow me to wish you the Happiest New Year 2019. Now back to our today's app/software review.

Shop and pay on Amazon.com using Kenyan shillings (Kes/Ksh) directly

2019-02-13T19:32:00.000+03:00

Western Union unveils a new payment option for Amazon.com shoppers in Kenya

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Amazon.com, Inc. or just Amazon is a multinational technology company based in in Seattle, Washington, United States which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

Western Union is a cross border money movement company, an American financial services and communications company based in Meridian, Colorado, United States.

Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained] 3

2018-11-05T08:00:00.001+03:00

Hybrid Web Apps

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The growth of mobile smartphones has risen exponentially in the past decade so in order to enhance an organization's market outreach mobile apps are a must option.

Previous article: Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained] 1 (Native Apps)

A hybrid app is a program that is built using HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript and wrapped in native container.

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Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained] 2

2018-11-05T08:00:00.000+03:00

Web Apps

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Hey there, this is our second part of the class, Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained]. Thank you for reading the first class.
We received your questions about Native Apps and decided to do this explained article on Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid App. Now we're knowing more about Web Apps.

Previous article: Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained] 1 (Native Apps)

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Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps [Explained] 1

2018-11-05T06:59:00.000+03:00

What's the difference between Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps?

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Hello Techies, after a long while, we are back. We had posted on our Facebook Page about how to seamlessly transition users/readers from your mobile and desktop website to the equivalent content within your app/native app with Firebase Dynamic Links.

We received your questions about Native Apps and decided to do this explained article on Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid App.

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GSConnect: Android and Ubuntu 18.10 Linux Integration

2018-05-16T15:16:00.000+03:00

Word from the Tech Bench is that Ubuntu 18.10 Will Include Android Integration...

Heeey Techies, it's been crazy trying to integrate/sync your Android smartphone with your computer for years. Samsung tried it with the kies but as new Samsung phones came also came the confusion and incompatibility of versions with Kies versions. Daamn! That usually used to piss me off. I downloaded several Android apps that allow Windows to Android phone integration with no good luck--I gave up. Some laptops do come pre-installed with Ubuntu, most people remove it and install Windows, I prefer keeping it and installing Windows on the side so as to have both. Here's one reason why...

Now, with the Cosmic Cuttlefish -- Ubuntu 18.10 Linux, you can sync the clipboard or notifications, browse files wirelessly and much more other great features between your Android device and your desktop. Lets check it out...