Web & Social

Truly, security is one aspect of smartphones that have undergone massive developments over the years. Fingerprint sensors arguably marked the beginning of biometric authentication on smartphones but iris scanners, voice authentication and facial unlock have also keenly followed suit. Popularized by Apple in the form... Read More

Asides from the fact that they are out of vogue, and old-school, long URLs are unwieldy, appear spam-like, and can break easily, leaving the recipients, customers, readers, or followers with the option of trying to make heads and tails of your links or simply abandoning... Read More

Your mobile app store consists of almost all the apps you can possibly ever need on your smartphone, irrespective of the operating system. From gaming to utility apps, instant messaging, note-taking apps, social media apps etc. But have you ever tried to install an app... Read More

UPDATE: Mula has since been rebranded to Tingg. With the rebrand, the parent company, Cellulant seeks to make Tingg Africa’s first payments Super App. In Nigeria, Tingg has been operating very successfully as a fully-fledged comprehensive digital financial services product. Its genesis was the implementation... Read More

One major trick that has been used by people to erase previous chats via Twitter DMs was to delete the entire chat. This ultimately would delete the chat from your Direct Messages section on Twitter. It has emerged that Twitter retains direct messages for years,... Read More

Truecaller has undoubtedly become a very useful tool in our mobile lives today. The service crowd-sources data from the millions of users who have downloaded the app on their smartphones. This data is then uploaded by the app to the company's servers and effectively helps... Read More

In this Android age, our Google accounts are quite literally our keys to the world. We rely on Google services for so many things, from Search, E-mail with Gmail to cute cat videos on YouTube to cloud storage with Google Drive...you get the idea. Google... Read More

First a rumoured possibility, now a reality. Facebook's Messenger now gives everyone the access to unsend messages. But there's a catch to it - it's only a ten-minute grace period. Towards Q4 2018, it was reported that the unsend feature will roll out to users... Read More

If you have an Android, and just so happen to be adventurous, then chances are you've heard of WhatsApp Plus or GBWhatsApp. These modded versions of WhatsApp offer added functionality that isn't available on the stock app. One of the features I like, and use... Read More