Alright, with me is the Yeelight Smart LED bulb. I have both the white and color versions. But the setup process is more or less the same. Before you get started, here’s what you need; Download Yeelight app from the Google play store or Apple App store. Yeelight or Xiaomi account.Make sure Bluetooth is turned on your phone. WiFi router with 2.4GHz frequency band. Note that it doesn’t work with 5Ghz band....

Last week, reports about Google ending support for unlimited storage on Google Photos surfaced. This means that moving forward (after June 1st, 2021), all uploads would count against your remaining Google Drive storage, effectively limiting you to less than 15GB of photos— except, of course, you subscribe to a Google One storage plan. If you’re like me—with tens of thousands of photos saved up on Google Photos, you don’t really need to sweat this until sometime in June 2021....

How to Install Google Assistant on Your Fire HD 8 Tablet First, you will need to download the Google app from the Play Store. Once that’s done, you’ll then need to download the Google Assistant app.Next, open and use the Google app. If you don’t, you’ll get the “Google Assistant isn’t available on this device” error message.You can then open the Google Assistant app You’ll then get a popup asking you to set Google as the default Assist app to access your Assistant....

Read more: How to Set up Linux on your Chromebook If you read my previous post on installing Linux on Chromebook, you should know that Linux runs on Chromebooks as a lightweight container or virtual machine. The default Linux container that’s installed is called penguin which is based on Debian Linux distribution — the same branch that popular Linux desktop operating system Ubuntu is based on. As a result, the easiest way to install Linux apps on your Chromebook is through ....

If you have bought your Infinix Note 4 device, and can’t find the way out on how to multitask using the split-screen setting, look no further. We outline it all for you. The procedure is rather simple. It only needs you to understand the operation of your phone. The Note 4 has invisible ‘back’ and ‘recent apps’ buttons to the right and left side of the visible home button respectively....

Take parking for example. Many counties now offer motorists an easy way to pay for parking using their phones, a far cry from the old days when you had to park your car and hunt around for an attendant to bill you and receipt you. In Kenya, KAPS is almost synonymous with parking in government institutions, campuses and malls. Kenya Airports Parking Services is revolutionizing and innovating everything around parking, making it easier for parking space owners to manage their assets and monetize it while making the process as seamless as possible for the users....

There are two ways you can wipe data off the card; using your Android phone or using a computer. Using an Android phone to format your SD card Smartphone manufacturers try as much as they can to make their products different from others, but one thing that is similar for most phones is the Android settings menu. To format your SD card using an Android phone, follow these steps:...

New devices now come with this Google-made messaging app as the default SMS app. Also, anyone with an Android device running Android 5 Lollipop and newer can also take advantage of this app and its features. Perhaps one of the most exciting features of the Google Messages app is the Chat features. This brings the power of Rich Communication Services (RCS), the spiritual successor to SMS. Last year, we saw Google making Chat (RCS) available in many more regions across the globe, effectively taking on established platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, and offering Android users a viable iMessage competitor....

So if you’ve just got a new Fire TV Stick, the setup process is fairly straight-forward. In the box, you’ll get the Fire TV Stick itself, a remote control powered by Alexa Voice Smart assistant, a pair of AAA batteries, MicroUSB cable, a wall plug and a quick guide manual. The type of remote varies depending on the Fire TV model you bought. For instance, the Fire TV Stick Lite(3rd Gen) remote control doesn’t not have power and volume TV controls unlike the rest....

Google brought a similar feature to Chromebooks. With Nearby share, you can send files between Android phones or between Android phones and Chromebooks, or between Chromebooks. The feature is expected to come to Windows PCs later in 2022 enabling you to share files between Android phones, Chromebooks, and Windows PCs. Read more: How to share files with Android’s Nearby Share feature Enable Nearby share on Chromebook On Chromebooks, Nearby share is turned off by default....

Now you can expand on your storage either by installing a microSD card upto 2TB or just connect to a Network Attached Storage(NAS) drive such as Synology or QNAP or Windows/Linux/Mac shared network folder via local wired network or WiFi. My setup is a Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Go which is my daily driver and a secondary old Asus Vivo book running Linux Mint. I managed to set up network shared folders on my old Linux mint laptop through the Samba software....

Widgets on Windows 11 is made up of two sections: the first (top) section displays widgets for weather, sports, and other personalized topics, and there’s the news section that offers headlines (clickable) from a host of news sources. That said, we will, in this article, be showing you how to make the most of the Widgets feature in Windows 11. Accessing Widgets The new Windows 11 has been redesigned with the taskbar now permanently sitting at the bottom of the screen....

This is one of the reasons Multichoice, a Naspers-owned company which has been running satellite Pay TV services across Africa for decades launched Showmax last year. Showmax is a video-on-demand service targeted towards the mobile connected generation that doesn’t see TV as the primary source of information or entertainment. Naspers launched Showmax just last year to well over 36 countries across sub-Saharan Africa with packages starting for as low as $7....

If you are on this page, you pretty much relate with accessing the internet directly from your mobile phone using your carrier network’s SIM card and also cognizant of how MiFi devices work. But which one should you use? And why? The Comparison: MiFi or Mobile Network? Battery Conservation Compared to mobile or cellular network, using MiFi to connect to the web on your smartphone actually allows for longer battery life....

The itel A16 is itel’s entry level offering also said to be the cheapest smartphone currently on the market. Shipped with Android Go, it carries little or no bloatware powered by Google’s customized operating system for entry level smartphones. Here are our first impressions of the device dubbed the smartphone for everyone. itel A16 Specs Since this is the first thing many of us look for, these are the A16 specs...

We just received news about the upcoming itel P38 along with a press photo. Let’s digest and look at the new features, selling points and what headrooms the itel P38 offers when you are upgrading from the predecessor itel P37. First off, What’s New With itel P38? Outside of the increase in the model number to itel P38 and the new features such as all-new fast charging, bigger display, and color options, there are simply subtle changes this year....

With a wide range of phones available on the market today, we list out for you one by one in the respective category and attach the basic specs and prices that you can follow when purchasing. Infinix Smartphones: Smart Series This is an entry-level phone that debuted mid-2017. It is the most colourful series coming in shades that include Black, Red, Gold and more. In Uganda, there is the Infinix Smart (which is sold out) and the Infinix Smart 2....

Makanika dot com is just the right app for this kind of emergency situations. It’s like Uber or Safeboda but for Mechanics. The way you hail a Boda on demand, it exactly the same way you can request for a Mechanic to fix your car wherever you are. Today, my car couldn’t start because of a battery issue. It couldn’t ignite. At first, I thought the battery was dead, so I need jumper cables and a good samaritan’s car to help ignite my car....

An event organized by the Government of Malawi with the United Nations Capital Development Fund’s (UNCDF) Better Than Cash Alliance (http://www.betterthancash.org) and Mobile Money for the Poor initiatives brought together digital payments players to accelerate the progress of digital finance in Malawi. The convening also marks the release of an in-depth analysis of the country’s readiness to transition from a nearly cash-only economy to one where digital payments are widely available through an ecosystem approach....

Renda is a startup helping both small and medium eCommerce businesses in Africa cross this off their list. And so this post will share what Renda Africa is all about, how it works, and how it can benefit you as a business owner. What is Renda Africa? Renda is an online platform that makes it easy to access logistics services easily. However, in addition to just finding a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more....