Author: Kaluka wanjala

If you are using ShowMax and are a DStv premium subscriber, there is a way to add ShowMax to your DStv subscription for free. ShowMax has over 35 000 series episodes, movies, kids’ shows and documentaries. Adding ShowMax to your DStv subscription is very easy as you will see below, the process has about three steps. 1. To get started, you will need to have an active ShowMax subscription (obviously). If you don’t, sign up for an account at showmax.com. When you sign up, login to your account and choose DStv as your method of payment. 2. You will be…

Over the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in the number of cyber attacks targeting organizations. Just recently, we saw the Petya and WannaCry ransomware attacks that showed us how vulnerable individuals and organizations are to cyber attacks. Not many people are prepared for these and other cyber attacks and may end up losing valuable information and data as a result. You may not see this as a big deal if you have never experienced such an attack but for an organization, losing data can spell doom. To address this, AON yesterday announced its Cyber Enterprise Solution…

Twitter has made a huge change for the first time in eleven years. The company has just increased the character count of tweets from 140 to 280 characters. This is the first time the company is doing so since it debuted its services back in 2006. Twitter says that the change is rolling out to a small group of users but it plans to expand it to everyone very soon. I already have it on my end and almost everyone I know does too. You should have it on your end by now as it started rolling out earlier today,…

Instagram is one of the fastest growing social networking sites out there. The Facebook-owned platform has seen its user base grow so fast compared to others such as Twitter. Instagram is now reporting that it currently has 800 million active users, 100 million more than the number of users it had in April this year. This is impressive for Instagram as it inches closer to 1 billion active monthly users. Not very many apps enjoy such numbers and most that do are owned by Facebook or Google. Besides the active monthly users, Instagram has also seen impressive growth in the…

Nokia re-entered the smartphone market earlier this year through HMD Global. The company has already unveiled the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6 and just recently, the Nokia 8. These are not expensive devices but they are not the cheapest on the market either. The Nokia 3 is reasonable priced and in Kenya you can get it for as low as Ksh 13,000, quite reasonable if you ask me. If you are interested you can get it here. It looks like HMD Global is ready to update Nokia’s line-up very soon with an affordable device. The device will be the…

If you own the Huawei Mate 9, I have some good news for you. The device may be getting the Oreo update very soon if all goes as planned. The Huawei Mate 9 is the company’s 2016 flagship phablet and I expected it to get updated at some point, I just did not expect us to start talking about that this early. So, what has brought us to the conclusion that this update is coming to the Mate 9? Well, the device running Android 8.0 Oreo has been spotted on benchmarking website Geekbench. With this, we can safely say that…

Over the last couple of years, we have seen ‘lite’ versions of some popular apps targeting users with slow data speeds. Apps such as Facebook Lite, Messenger Lite and other ‘lite’ apps offer users a way to stay in contact with their friends and family without using so much data. Facebook has paved the way and now Twitter is jumping into the lite apps bandwagon. Twitter has revealed that it has started testing a native Twitter Lite app for Android. The company is testing the app in Philippines at the moment. The Twitter Lite app is similar to the Lite…

Using an ecommerce site is all about convenience, you order what you want and wait for it to be delivered to you. The biggest issue some customers have had in Kenya is that it takes a very long time for them to get the products they buy. When Jumia first started operations in Kenya, customers had to wait for about are week or more before getting what they ordered online. This has improved over the years and is about to get even better with the introduction of Jumia Express. Jumia Express is what was formerly known as Jumia First and…

Instagram has announced that users are now able to add face filters when sharing live videos. The company announced this yesterday saying you can now easily play with face filters while sharing live video. The sunglasses filter will be one of the selections that will be exclusively available for live video over the next week. With the sunglasses filter, you can change the scenery reflected in the glasses with just a simple tap. When you are done with the live broadcast, you can choose to have it replayed in the stories or just delete it completely. “When your broadcast has…

Netflix has just rolled out its latest update targeting iOS users. The updated app now supports HDR streaming as long as you have a compatible device. Note that this is for ‘compatible devices’ and not all iOS devices out there are in that category. This update comes a couple of days after Apple rolled out iOS 11 to the public. As expected, the update supports iOS 11 and the few of the devices that can support HDR streaming including the new iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the iPad Pro. To stream HDR content on your Netflix for…