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How to backup Whatsapp

Today will show how we can backup whatsapp chats, incase you lose your phone or maybe change to a new phone this backup can come in handy. This tutorial will focus on backing up Whatsapp chats on an Android phone . 1. ONLINE BACKUP 2. OFFLINE BACKUP 1.ONLINE BACKUP a. Tap your "WhatsApp" app to open WhatsApp. You can backup WhatsApp from within its settings menu. (To backup whatsapp online to a cloud server, your android must be synchronised to a google account) b. Tap your whatsapp's menu button. The three horizontal dots in the corner. c. Tap the "Settings" option. d. Tap the "Chats" tab. This will open your Chats preferences. e. Tap "Chat backup". From here, you have a few options. But under this section we are focusing on the following;         +Back up to Google Drive" - Backup your chats to Google Drive. f. Tap "Back up to Google Drive". This will prompt you to choose a backup f...

Taking a Screenshot (Windows Phone)

1 Determine which version of Windows Phone 8 you have.  The process is different depending on if you have Windows Phone 8 or Windows Phone 8.1.You can determine your version by tapping "Settings" → "About" → "More info". Look for the "Software" entry. 2 Take a screenshot with Windows Phone 8.1.  Press and hold the Power and Volume Up buttons. The screen will dim for a moment, indicating that the screenshot was taken. 3 Take a screenshot with Windows Phone 8.  Press and hold the Windows and Power buttons. The screen will dim for a moment, indicating that the screenshot was taken. 4 Open your screenshot.  Your new screenshot will be saved to your phone and can be found in the "Screenshots" album in the Photos Hub.

How to Sync Android Contacts With Gmail

As indicated in the previous article " Safe Keeping your Contacts " in this post I will illustrate how to sync contacts to Gmail account . First things first, make sure you have a working internet connection. And a Gmail account logged in on the phone. 1 Hit your Android menu button and select "System settings. "     2 Select "Accounts & Sync" from the options available there.  This will be listed under "Personal."     3 Click the your desired email to sync under Accounts label.  Click on the Gmail option. This is the symbol with the blue background and the "g." You can check the icon with the green circular arrows to the right to make sure the active sync is on for gmail.     4 Tap "Sync Gmail. " You can also sync other aspects for Gmail such as photos, books, movies, and so on.     5 Click on the other options that you want to sync even your Contacts.    

Safe keeping your contacts

The method used in this article is mainly based on android (for further more reach to your specific smartphone brand please send in a feedback or request a post) In this tutorial will shade more light how you can retain your phone book or contact numbers. Its very often and very simple, easy, how an individual could lose all their phone numbers; changing to a new phone or a different phone, olo phone kuonongeka kumene . These days a sim card is not enough ...too small, Atleast it would have been simple carrying around your contacts via sim but its 250 contacts only :( Okay so we have a possible way compatible with the latest smartphones. 1. Exporting contacts to memory card or internal memory of your phone. EXPORTING CONTACTS > On your phone go to contacts , tap on menu > The menu that pops up, has a long list of selection. > Find " import / export ", select it. > Another small menu shows up! > Here make sure you tap on " export to storage ...

Quickie tips

What's a rooted phone? • Android Phones Access to the entire OS so that you are able to customize anything Browse using high speed your phone can allow • Android Phones and other Phones Clear your application cache and Turn on "3G or WCDMA only" Share your data plan via wifi • Make Sure you have internet connection Turn on portable Wi-Fi hot-spot then let your friends connect to you! Shortcut to my Computer window • Look for Windows Key on the keyboard hold Win-key + E (press them together as a combination)

Free Facebook

For a while now airtel customers have been enjoying free Facebook and other websites (shortlisted websites)       To enjoy this free Facebook, on your browser goto www . free . Facebook . com Like all things for free, somehow penapake underneath there's an underlying price to pay. Using this free fb you won't be able to view pics (except profile pics) and like I said you should be on airtel line. Furthermore, for a while now Facebook has been going around the world, partnering up with different organisations to bring you basic websites for free. Facebook developed a service called Freebasics . Under freebasics you will find interesting shortlisted sites that you can visit for free. So far all this stuff works properly via airtel network. Goto www . internet . org for Freebasics by Facebook.

How to use 2 Whatsapp accounts in one phone (Android)

Most people have separate phone numbers be it Airtel or TNM for so many reasons. And this also applies to the fact that they would also love to have separate Whatsapp accounts, one for business and the other family and friends. This is very simple, now it is possible to run two Whatsapp accounts on one android phone. All you need is what we call GBWhatsapp Just follow below steps to setup two whatsapp accounts with GBWhatsapp. 1. First of all, Download GBWhatsapp 2. I hope you have installed GBWhatsapp in your android phone by tapping on it and then by clicking on Install. 3. Open GBWhatsapp application now and Sign Up with second number which you want to use for your other Whatsapp account. 4. Verify this number (make sure this number is active in another phone during this setup) and Use GBwhatsapp account in your android phone now. Well there you have separate world's in one phone.

Introduction to Tweaking

Important Notes on Tweaking Tweak - to change slightly, especially in order to make something more effective or correct Optimize - get most out of, make optimal - modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost 1. Tweaking is best done on a fresh install 2. Get as much RAM you can afford 3. Getting latest drivers is the best tweak you can do 4. Use two or more Hard drives(desktop), Partition your drive (laptop or desktop) 5. Maintain your pc. Do disk clean up often

Windows 10

The new Windows OS: Windows 10 1. Windows 10 is familiar and easy to use. It comes with improved Start menu. And more importantly, its designed to startup and resume fast. 2. This new OS is packed with new innovations including Microsoft Edge - an all new browser. 3. Upgrade from win 7 or 8, You will love windows 10! 4. Specs: Have 1 GHz or faster processor, 1 GB RAM for 32bit or 2 GB RAM for 64bit, Hard Disk Space 16 GB(32bit OS) & 20 GB(64bit), Graphics card; DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver 5. Display: 800x600 feel free to give us your feed back through our Contact Page, you can also request new articles where you feel we should provide you with a tutorial

Updating your Drivers

Update Drivers missing in your pc (graphics, Sound etc.)   1. Download the driver package you want to install and place it on the desktop (if compressed extract them now) 2. Search for Device manager (for win 7/10 click start and type "Device manager", for win 8/8.1 hold win key + s and type "device manager") 3. double click on the device you want, it will collapse. double click on the device expanded. 4. click on the driver tab and click update and choose locate and install driver manually 5. locate the path of the drivers on the desktop and click okay. then it will install. feel free to give us your feed back through our Contact Page, you can also request new articles where you feel we should provide you with a tutorial  

Enabling .Net framework

If an app requires .Net framework 3.5, but doesn't find that version enabled on your pc, it displays a message box this option requires an internet connection but in this tutorial we show you how you can save your data plan and money by enabling the feature in Control Panel. 1. go to control panel, click on program items, then click on "turn windows features on or off" under programs and features. 2. Select the .Net Framework 3.5 (includes .Net 2.0 and 3.0) check box, press OK, and reboot your computer. feel free to give us your feed back through our Contact Page, you can also request new articles where you feel we should provide you with a tutorial

Use Windows Defender as your only Antivirus

Use Win 8/8.1/10 with only built in Windows Defender It is recommended to do this if you just finished installing windows os or new pc that has no antivirus or a pc that hasn't yet been infected with any malware (we are tightenning security before anything else) 1. Change user account control settings, Search for UAC (hold win key + s and type "UAC") 2. Change to always notify me. Click ok and close window. 3. Search for turn Auto Play on or off (hold win key + s and type "Turn Auto play on or off") 4. Turn it off 5. Search for Windows defender (hold win key + s and type "Windows Defender") 6. By default the real time protection is on, this is good. Make sure you have internet connection click on upate. Update your defender after every 7 days then your pc and docs will be safe 7. (optional) Manually update and share your windows defender update. New article coming soon!! feel free to give us your feed back through our Con...

Minimise airtime usage on Android Phone

Lessen airtime consumption There's a time when you top up airtime on your phone, instantly or couple minutes later you realise all the airtime is gone! Right? Below is how you can minimise this fast consupmtion. 1. Go to Settings ==> Accounts & Sync ===> Background data 2. Unmark or deselect the sync option 3. Still in Settings, open Location setting, and turn off 4. Find data usage, set mobile data limit 5. If your phone has auto-update feature turns this off feel free to give us your feed back through our Contact Page, you can also request new articles where you feel we should provide you with a tutorial.

How to identify Fake Android phones

Spot the difference from the famous china phones to Original Android phones below are little things to notice and take note of: We are going to perform a series of tests in the following phases; Physical check-up, and Graphics and Performance Physical Check-up: Perform a physical check-up to distinguish a fake Galaxy phone from a real one. 1. Check on the screen's brightness, original android screen is vibrant and lively colors on screen. Fake devices show dull colors 2. Check the space from the screen to the edge. Cloned phones have a wide gap from the edge of the screen to the edge of the phone. 3. Samsung logo or the Android logo on the phone is not smoothed. You can feel the Samsung logo on fake products. The logo can be easily rubbed off and removed. 4. Gap on the home and power buttons and volume buttons have abnormal gaps on the fake android phones 5. Check the phone sensors. Some sensors are missing or misplaced. 6. Check the screen's glass material...

connect pcs via wifi to transfer movies, docs, music... (Create Adhoc network)

1. Search for CMD (for win 7/10 click start and type "CMD", for win 8/8.1 hold win key + s and type "CMD") 2. right click CMD and run as administrator 3. type netsh wlan show drivers and press enter 4. look where it says Hosted network supported : yes then you are set, but if it says no your pc doesn't support hosting networks. 5. set up the ad hoc network using this command netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid="enter_network_name_here" key="enter_password_here" if it says successfully changed... phew! proceed.. 6. until now, your network has been created. But you need to start it, use this command netsh wlan start hostednetwork tell your friend to turn his/her wifi On and connect to you, start the sharing!   feel free to give us your feed back through our Contact Page, you can also request new articles where you feel we should provide you with a tutorial.