Had an encounter driving home from work today. I was driving on an expressway with a speed of about 80km/h, when i spotted a man a little distance away, dressed in mufti, jump in  the middle of the road with a gun by his side, stopping my car. Ordinarily, i had about enough notice to…

Oh yes, I do believe, unreservedly, that Jesus saves. But like a "doubting Thomas", I seriously doubt if he would do much to help you when it comes to protecting you from having your online identities hijacked - that is, if you use his name as your password. Splashdata, a leading provider of password management…

If you have the feeling that everyone else in the world understands virtualization perfectly while you are still trying to understand just what it is and how you might take advantage of it, take heart, you are not alone. Virtualization, in simple English (no geek speak), refers to a concept in which access to a…

A few days ago, i decided to shelve all forms of multibooting of Operating systems on my laptop and embraced Virtualization fully. For the sake of the noobs in the house, Multi-boot or Multi-booting is the installation of multiple operating systems on different partitions of a computer, with the ability to choose which one to…

With an expected release date of October 26, 2012, Microsoft's Windows 8 will be the first unified Operating system platform across desktop and mobile devices. Before now, there have been talks about Apple venturing into creating a unified platform. Thwarting all expectations, the company has come out to say there will still be clear boundaries…

I have always been a Linux apologist - apologies to no one. My migration to the Linux platform a few years back was largely influenced by the bitter experiences i had with malwares and viruses on Windows. Rumours were rife then of the near impregnability of Linux, that Linux is virus (trojan horse) free. It…

So you tried to download an app from Google Play Market and you got the message "This Item Cannot Be Installed In Your Device's Country". Or you probably saw an advertised android app and you just can not seem to find it in the Google Play Market. This user experience  is quite frequent and it…

Almost everybody in Nigeria has a Gmail account. Not a bad thing really, especially when it offers a great service, coupled with all those free add ons that the likes of Yahoo and Fastmail were charging an arm for. However, for some personal reasons, you may feel the need to search for an alternative. Reasons…

Today, choice of a smartphone is not only governed by features and cool looks, but also by the OS that runs on it. Here we analyze and compare the major smartphone operating systems, including iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Phone. iOS It is said that Newton thought about the principles of gravity when he saw…

As Google play witnesses the 25 billionth download on its Google Play app store, top apps are being offered to all and sundry for only 25 cents (N40)! You will recall a similar discount offer that took place only last December 2011 when Google Play witnessed the 10 billionth download, and it offered apps for…

If you are like me with "God knows how many" websites to maintain, this great tip will sure come in handy. Enter the CMS Commander, a website to manage all your CMS websites (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and phpBB) from a single control panel. From this website, you get to do the following; Manage all your…

Pocket for Android is my favourite bookmark and offline reader app. It is also available on the IOS platform. In its last update, it introduced what it called “Listen” feature. With “Listen,” it’s easy to hear what you’ve saved in Pocket: Just open an article, press “Listen,” and Pocket will read the text out loud…