How to Migrate Your Windows Installation to a Solid-State Drive

Many older (or cheaper) Windows laptops come with traditional mechanical hard drives—which these days, are pretty outdated and slow. Upgrading to a new, super fast solid state drive (or SSD) is the surest way to speed up an old computer. There’s one problem: moving your Windows installation can be tricky, especially since SSDs are often smaller than their traditional hard drive counterparts.

However, there is a way to migrate your Windows 7, 8, or 10 installation to an SSD without reinstalling Windows. It takes a few extra steps, but a lot less time.

How to Disable Your Webcam (and Why You Should)

Once a concern that was the province of the paranoid, years worth of reports and revelations have made it readily apparent that people really can spy on you through your webcam. Here’s why you should disable or cover yours.

How to Fix Your Slow WiFi

Slow WiFi speed can be really confusing, rather downright annoying, as there is no single answer to fix it. There are numerous reasons why your WiFi may be working on a speed slower than intended. It could be a problem with the WiFi router, or the Internet itself.

By Overtaking Facebook in traffic, MMM challenges Nigeria’s mobile-first status

Nigerians have become quite familiar with the Mavrodi Mondial Movement — or MMM as it is fondly called — the new craze that took the country by storm in the last quarter of this year. Based on the 96-year old Russian Ponzi scheme, MMM has received mixed reactions from Nigerians since its introduction into the country.

How Nigeria Social Media reacts to data hikes

Nigeria’s prepare to pay more for their data starting December 1, 2016.

With reports making the rounds about the increase of data with effect from December 1, 2016 social media has been abuzz. This has got many in Nigeria voicing their disappointment on the issue. Although there has not been an official statement from the Global System of Mobile telecommunications the rumour has sent the masses on panic mode.

This app lets you find an active ATM nearby

Walnut app, which is available on Android and iOS, finds out when a nearby ATM has cash based on user’s transactions and sends an alert to others.

The demonetisation drive has left a lot of us hunting for ATMs with cash nearby. In fact the crowd is expected to soar at ATMs as December 1 (the salary day) approaches. But what if we told you there’s a way to escape the long queues get cash comparatively quickly? Well, that’s exactly what the Walnut app does.

How To Access Blocked Websites - 8 Smart methods!

There are many reasons authorities block access to certain websites. Some workplaces may block social media sites or access to your personal email. You might also experience blocks at your university, college or school.

If you find yourself in this situation, and are looking at a workaround you can apply to overcome this block, don’t worry, we have 9 ways you can try.

How to Download YouTube Videos With No External Tools or Extensions

Downloading YouTube videos and audios is a fundamental chore for netizens. Sure, there are external tools out there to help you download youtube videos but if you are bothered by the incessant ads, and have concerns about malware, perhaps it’s time to start downloading YouTube media unaided.

5 Online Marketplaces Every Nigerian SMEs Should Try Out

Ex-Jumia and Supermart co-founder, Raphael Afeador pointed out the need for more players in the eCommerce sector in Nigeria. The consumer definitely would be on the gaining side when we have more online stores.

10 Things You Should Know Before You Try Coding

Learning to code is not at all easy. You may find many websites that try to push people into coding by citing it as an easy trade to master. However, it is one of the hardest skills to gather and excel at. It is more of an experimentation than a guide that needs to be followed.

For The First Time, Mobile Internet Usage Worldwide Beats Desktop

It’s official. We now use the Internet more on our mobiles and tablets than on our desktop

There's no denying that smartphones now dominate the technology space. And for the first time ever, mobile has taken over desktop as the world's leading internet platform as the majority of worldwide internet usage came from mobile and tablet devices.

10 Reasons Why You Should Switch To Opera Browser Right Now

Opera is one of the most underrated browsers out there. Even though it usually pops up in the most-popular browser lists, only a fraction of total users use it (W3schools puts the figure at around 1% for 2016). Still the numbers add up to about 60 mil users on desktop and twice that on Opera Mini for Android.

Digitize old photos on your smartphone with Google PhotoScan

We may take thousands of photos these days but we all know that an old photo can turn more heads than what you ate for breakfast this morning. Google now lets you digitize your old photos with a special app called PhotoScan, currently available only for Android and iOS.

6 ways to balance your personal and professional social accounts

It’s 2016, so it’s pretty common for us to have multiple social media accounts that we use for different things; some of those accounts may be more for our personal lives while others we use for our professional lives.

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram gets a unified inbox

Social media managers responsible for their company’s Facebook and Instagram pages will have their work streamlined soon. Facebook has announced that it will be introducing a unified inbox for its Pages Manager mobile app.

This unified inbox will allow you to link up your organization’s Facebook page, Messenger and Instagram page on the Pages Manager app.

List of 4G LTE networks in Nigeria

4G LTE networks in Nigeria are still very much new, but the number of networks keep increasing. This page is regularly updated to keep the information on available LTE networks up to date. This page lists the 4G LTE networks in Nigeria:

WhatsApp officially launches video calling for everyone

WhatsApp officially launched video calling on Tuesday, and the feature is now being rolled out to Android, iPhone, and Windows users. Updated WhatsApp with support for video calling for Android and iPhone has officially been released, so you simply need to update the feature to make your first video call. If your iOS or Android device is not set to receive automatic updates, or if you are not sure if WhatsApp has been updated, simply go to the App Store or Google Play and check for available

4G LTE in Nigeria: What to Expect

4G-LTE is the 4th Generation mobile communication network in the Long-Term Evolution series (a technical process for high-speed data for phones and other mobile devices), taking mobile communication to a whole new level. The 4G-LTE network which evolved from the UTMS 3G/HSPA+, brings a total paradigm shift from the circuit switch network architecture to an all Internet Protocol (IP) packet switch architecture thus bringing a total end to the Telco/ISP “dichotomy” and data to the forefront over the traditional telecommunication services.

Next cyber-fraud prevention software unveiled

CyberRein, a leading cyber security company has today announced the launch of Assayer, a next generation cyber-fraud software.  

Targeted at banks, Assayer uniquely stops criminals deceiving a bank’s existing defences.

Assayer is set to transform cyber-fraud prevention. Banks existing defences prevent impersonation allowing criminals time to learn how to deceive and plan an attack. Assayer takes away this time, meaning criminals no-longer have months, but milliseconds to plan their attacks.

3 Essential Tips to Making a Secure, Easy-to-remember Password

Passwords are a pain — they have to be good, secure, not easy to crack, and at the same time, the kind we can remember easily. If you have ever experienced the inconvenience of forgetting a password, the pain becomes real. That’s why you need help from the experts.