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One of the few things I’ve gained from owning a smartphone and tablet is that I’m gradually resurrecting my obsession with works of fiction. Let’s just say that once a upon a time, I could literally kill for a Sidney Sheldon. lol. On the android platform, there are loads of …

So finally I went ahead and bought the white version of the BlackBerry Z10 on Monday. Sold the Bold 5 for N30k to the dealer and added N80k to complete the price. (I know I could have sold it for more than that but guilty conscience wasn’t on my side). …

Despite the growing familiarity with chat/sms apps like WhatsApp and WeChat as well as BlackBerry Messenger, the role of SMS in the scope of telecommunication cannot be written off.
It’s the cheapest form of communication and works across all devices be it feature phones, smartphone, internet enabled or non-internet enabled phone.
One …

Another Mega Deal is Here!! USA Used Lenovo X220 Laptop / 3rd Generation Intel Core i5/ 8GB RAM / 320GB HDD for N68,000.
This is half the price for the brand new one as this Laptop costs over N160,000 in Naira Equivalent.
This Super Machine costs between $800 to $1200 on EBay …

Combining sleek looks, durability and advanced wireless connectivity is something the Dell Latitude E4300 nails one time. It is built thin and ultraportable thanks to the use of premium Magnesium Alloy and as such the Road Warrior/Executive won’t even notice he is carrying anything. It packs an Extended Battery lasting …

Looking to buy a brand new laptop PC? You might want to check out this offer from Lite Impact. For just N80,000 you could get the HP 650 notebook PC with the following features

Intel® Core™ i3-2370M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache)
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Hi, guys. I know this blog is dedicated to mainly internet and mobile technology tips but today I’d like to share a financial tip with regards to get rich quick schemes that seem harmless on the surface and have suddenly started spreading fast in the country.
As some of you may …

Ever tried downloading a file from a file sharing service and they keep tossing you around with some *wrong captcha* error message? Well not too long ago, I discovered that this seems to be the status quo for most IPs that aren’t US based.
How did I figure that out? I …

There is fire on the mountain, BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) run run run. lol. Mister Mobility once said that sooner or later BlackBerry would lose the top spot in the Nigerian smartphone market to Android (that’s of course if Nokia doesn’t seize the opportunity to reclaim its’ lost glory) and looks …

Battery Life remains one of the major factors to consider when purchasing a mobile device and that’s why top tech sites such as GSM Arena dedicate a good portion of their reviews to it. The calibration methods employed by GSM Arena seems to widely accepted by other tech blogs thus …

Rumors have it that Mobile Number Portability is coming our way here in Nigeria on April 4th, 2013. Breaking: Number Portability Postponed? [Update: Confirmed, New date set]
In a nutshell, Mobile number portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator …

Those of us who have been online a long time know that,the almighty Google has its many ways (tools) of tracking all our *runs* (activities) on the internet and after many heavy debates, Google has tried time and time again to offer web users ways of opting out of being …

Downloading large files off my server has been a problem for over 1 week ever since I signed up for Google PageSpeed. I attributed it to problems on my server and ignored it until yesterday when I had to move large files off my server to my computer. The web …

BlackBerry’s flagship device, the Z10, has been on the market for over a month now but due to the asking price (N100,000 – N130,000), lack of data compression and the *funny* data caps being offered by the major networks, I’m yet to get one. Besides I hear before the year …

Despite all the precautions I took to protect my data when I decided to format my Dell Inspiron 14Z to a dual boot system, I still lost a few things here and there and one of them was the password to my MTN Nigeria HyNet wireless broadband internet.
Given their recent …

Another Mega Deal is Here!! Solid Clean UK Used Toshiba Portege R830-17C. This laptop is light as a mini laptop with MEGA FEATURES!! except that it does not have a webcam
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-Toshiba Portege R830 (Slim Super Light Design, weighs less than 1kg)
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It’s been two weeks since I signed up for Google’s Page Speed service (How To Setup Google Page Speed On Hostgator Servers) and so far so good, the experience has been bitter-sweet. Sweet in the sense that my sites load pretty fast and this has noticeably helped to hike the …

Given my sweet experience with the THL W6 and my yet to be vanquished frustration with the lack of apps on the BlackBerry platform, I decided to have a go at a Chinese 7 inch android tablet thus I decided to settle for the Ainol Novo Fire 7. Boy was …

Months back when I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 14Z on the cheap to Windows 8, I never envisioned myself running back to Windows 7 but in recent times I’ve found myself borrowing my colleague’s laptop so as to perform some Windows 7 specific operations and it’s pretty embarrassing.
Three days ago, …

So last week on Saturday to be precise, I breached the resource limit on my server again and my sites had to be shut down for over 7 hours. No thanks to W3 Total Cache database caching which I had turned off but had managed to turn itself on again. …