AWOOF: At Last Opera Extends Its Free Unlimited VPN App to Android

AWOOF: At Last Opera Extends Its Free Unlimited VPN App to Android

Just some two months back in May, Opera had launched an unlimited VPN app for iOS; all coming at no cost. And now, Opera is extending this equally to all Android devices.

The name for this jolly Android philanthropy is Opera Free VPN. There is difference between this and the other VPN app called Opera Max. The Opera Free VPN doesn’t in anyway compress the traffic of the user or anything like that. It is just one standard VPN app, but this time coming with an awoof intonation being free with unlimited traffic.

As said, this VPN protection really needs no subscription. Though this time, it comes with a number of tweaks. To start with, it presents a Wi-Fi test tool that will inform you the extent of security of the wireless network you are presently connected. So when it gets an A, all is rocking fine. It gets pretty bad when the rating turns an F, well, then it is best you waste no time further quickly jumping off it at once – or better still resort to Opera’s VPN.

This runs check on “whether the Wi-Fi network is public or private, if it’s encrypted, how many other devices share the same connection, if the IP address and the location are exposed, and if others can monitor or sniff your device details”, going by the explanation from Opera.

In addition to the first tweak, the Guardian feature will bring in the capacity to block ad trackers from “stalking you online” while you are on a connection to the Opera VPN.

According to the default operation, the app makes a connection between you and whichever of virtual locations (like US, Netherlands etc.) is closer to your real location, but you then you still have the option of choosing another if you so desire.
You can find it in the Google Play Store.

HEY, YOU HAVE SEEN THE LATEST TASTY UPDATES TO BING SEARCH ON ANDROID?

HEY, YOU HAVE SEEN THE LATEST TASTY UPDATES TO BING SEARCH ON ANDROID?

Microsoft really deserves some applause. We must admit that Microsoft has been making interesting attempts to maintain the culture of updating its apps on Android. Most particularly Bing has been receiving nourishing updates to keep it well pretty in face of fierce competition.

In the most recent Bing update, we are presented with some lovely nice video features. With this update, users now have the capacity to preview videos online (with the sound being off) in the search results. It is now very possible to tap videos after doing a music search so as to play them with the lyrics in a synchronous manner. And there is a fresh means to finding videos which in one way bears relationship with that one you are watching. This update to the Bing app rolls in an app music shortcut for the Android homepage and an enhancement in the live camera search (rocking support for the front-facing one). We will just catalog the changes this update brings below:

WHAT’S NEW

• Video preview: Previews begin playing at once with sound off on video search

• Music: You can now search for a song which is playing (or you could simply type the name of a song), then play the video while keeping up with the lyrics. Additionally, with the new Music shortcut on the homepage, there is increased convenience in getting into trending songs, as well as finding trending artists.

• Camera search is now compatible with zoom, flash, as well as front facing camera

• Related video: Locate more video clips associated in one way or the other to the video you are watching.

Android 7.0 Has Started Rolling Out, Is Your Device Eligible To Receive The Update?

Android 7.0 Has Started Rolling Out, Is Your Device Eligible To Receive The Update?

Google Android 7.0 has started rolling out, the question is your device eligible to be upgraded to Android 7.0? It will be a disaster if you are still running Android 4.4 Kitkat when Android 7.0 Nougat has started rolling out.

Any OEM that still launches a device with default Android OS of 5.1 lollipop is still leaving in the primitive era of ideology.

Let me brief you on the notable features you should expect to see on Android 7.0 Nougat

Notable Features of Android 7.0 Nougat

>>Split-screen mode, picture-in-picture, and double tap to quickly switch.

>>Customizable Quick Settings in Android 7.0 Nougat

>>It brings with it the ability to set multiple locales and languages, 72 new emoji, multi-window functionality,

>>Ability to quickly switch to the previous app (by double-tapping the multitasking button),

>>Vulkan graphics API,

>>Newly dedicated VR mode,

>>Doze on the go for better battery management and new data saver for restricting data usage for background apps.

>>Direct replies from notifications, bundled notifications,

>>A built-in mobile data saver,

>>file-based encryption, and much more.

Eligible Devices For Android 7.0

For now these are the first batch of eligible devices Huawei Nexus 6P, LG Nexus 5X, Motorola Nexus 6, HTC Nexus 9, Asus Nexus Player, Google Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G.Devices also running the developers preview will be eligible.

With time, it will be extended to other devices… Is your smartphone eligible?

What Is Airtel Repackaged SmartTrybe?

What Is Airtel Repackaged SmartTrybe?

Though I do not see any much different between this and what is already existing but let me think in the direction of Airtel, because the Management of Airtel feel not everyone is aware of Airtel Repackaged SmartTrybe.

What is Airtel Repackage SmartTrybe?

Airtel Repackaged SmartTrybeis a youth-centric offering that offers pocket-friendly call and data rates as well as irresistible freebies to customers. This package was officially launched by Airtel on Friday 12th August, 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria.

According to Airtel, the repackaged Smart Trybe gives 11k/secrate to all networks in Nigeria and cheapest cost of data bundle.

Under the hood, you can find these 3 major package

»Trybe Special Data: cheap data bundle and call rates which givesyou 1GB of data for N500 and it will last you for one week (7 days).

»Trybe Night Browsing:You can get 500MB data for N25(12:00am – 5:00am),1.5GB for N50 (12:00am-5am), and the good aspect is that you can subscribe over and over again.
»Trybe Weekend: AirtelSmartTryBe Weekend customers enjoy 250 MB with free 30Min calls to all Airtel numbers.

How Can I Opt-in?
Dial*312#to opt in for this package.
If you are a heavy downloader or heavy internet user, you can simply utilize this package.

WhatsApp Soon To Be Blessed With Siri Support

WhatsApp Soon To Be Blessed With Siri Support

From what we are seeing, there is not much doubt that soon we will be able to enjoy Siri on WhatsApp. This means we will be able to enjoy the services of Siri as to reading and sending WhatsApp messages even up to making WhatsApp calls on iOS devices. This development is gotten from a leak – which unveils an explanation text given to users when prompted to give WhatsApp access to Siri.

Siri is Apple’s famous voice-controlled digital assistant. So far so good, Siri has recorded a juicy bout of improvement of late. This remarkable digital assistant can well fill in all kinds of tasks from making phone calls, to sending and reading messages.

Yet there was the sad restriction of its services as they were exclusively available to only a handful number of third party apps of which WhatsApp wasn’t included , that stands to change now. This change is most likely to come after the release of the iOS 10. The iOS 10 has the refreshing promise of integrating virtual assistant with third-party apps.

Though for now, we have not received any official confirmation from WhatsApp getting Siri support. But this doesn’t in any way annul the validity of the report.

You will remember that since WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook, WhatsApp has made notable development, ranging from end to end encryption the most recent voicemail feature, and of course we stand to see much more from WhatsApp in the shortest time!

HOW DO YOU THINK SNAPCHAT MAKES ITS MILLIONS?

HOW DO YOU THINK SNAPCHAT MAKES ITS MILLIONS?

Snapchat boasts a user base exceeding 150 million daily users as well almost a $17 billion valuation. On the grounds of these statistics, it is fair to say Snapchat has more worth (on paper) than a number of famous public tech companies which could even include Twitter.

Guess you could be asking the source of investors’ confidence as they fail to question the credibility of the prospects of Snapchat ( which actually is a company with an established reputation for disappearing messages as well as humorous face filters) someday becoming a mega business. The reason obviously is that this little business it has at present clearly has a solid potential of growing up big time.

Going by the plans of the company, Snapchat is targeting about $300 million in revenue for this 2016. This is a build up from a $50 million revenue goal of 2015. Snapchat is not afraid to rant to investors it could rake up to $500 million, even up to $1 billion business next year. Well said, this is one ambitious move!

So in face of this lofty dreams of Snapchat, how do you think Snapchat will make all this money?

The very way other major internet companies like Facebook and Google earn their fortunes: it is the very Advertising!

Snapchat has a strategy of displaying ads to users in a number of vital places inside the app.

Discover: Alongside the channels produced by Snapchat’s publishing partners, you will notice advertisements.

Stories: This runs across Live Stories — just like the montages curated by Snapchat around big sporting events like the Olympics — and the one we are enjoying now is users’ stories. The implication of this is that you come across advertisements as you move from one friend’s story to another friend’s story.

Filters and lenses: In this earning medium, Snapchat makes sales of sponsored filters for particular events (if you remember Recode had recorded the purchase of one for the purpose of its annual Code Conference in 2016).

Snapchat equally sells sponsored lenses, these are the notorious face-distorting features which gives users the ability to transform into a dog or even a zombie at worst.

On the down side, one major challenge Snapchat is struggling to overturn is that it has not been excellent at measuring how well these ads are doing for its advertisers. Of course, this is one big problem. Any dude running expenses to advertise inside your app, will seriously want to have a measurement of the performance of their ads. So Snapchat is not really doing well at measuring that at present. It was only of late that Snapchat is trying to initiate partnerships with third-party measurement companies to relieve Snapchat of this distress.

So this is how Snapchat is making its millions!

Microsoft Now Pays People To Use The Edge Browser & Bing Search

Microsoft Now Pays People To Use The Edge Browser & Bing Search

Microsoft announced that it is restructuring the former "Bing rewards" to Microsoft rewards – a platform that will pay you to use the Edge browser and Bing. Wait! Before you get over excited, this offer is not yet available for Africans but anything can happen on nearest future in regards to its extension to users in Africa. People who uses Edge browser and who signed up for "Microsoft

Tutorial: How Can I Embed Facebook Message Buttons In My Website

Tutorial: How Can I Embed Facebook Message Buttons In My Website

It is very possible to embed the Facebook Messenger button in your website. The function this gives you is the ability to receive messages from anyone having a Facebook account. In this mode, persons can now message your your personal profile or Facebook page .

Alright. You will agree with me that email has for some time being the traditional means of contacting out people on the Internet. It is customary for websites to put their email addresses on web pages. So that they become click able hyperlinks making use of the mail to protocol. Of course there has been changes, we can’t yet forsake the relevance of email. Though in the modern day, we are almost more convenient with instant texting apps in the likes of Facebook Messenger; preferring it to email. Even now some see composing an email as carrying the same boredom as writing a résumé

In this tutorial, we present procedures explaining a technique you can employ so a to conveniently embed the Facebook Messenger button in your website. When you do this, the individual clicking on the Message Me button will automatically launch the Facebook Messenger app on their mobile phone or the messenger.com website. This is in the condition that they are on the desktop. Also, you have the option of receiving messages in your Facebook page or your Facebook profile, in case you possess one.

We Will Be Using The Simple Facebook Messenger Link

By default, the Facebook Messenger button is rendered making use of JavaScript. Yet it is possible to write them straight in HTML without demanding JavaScript. The good thing about this is that these very buttons would show up despite the user having enabled ad blockers and additionally, it is possible to embed message links inside email newsletters.

The very operation you need to carry out is replacing “XYZ” in the snippet below with your Facebook vanity username. So in the case where you are not in ownership of a username, you have the alternative of using your numerical Facebook profile ID. You could customize the link with CSS to look like a button as seen below.

Message us on Facebook

One relevant addition I will like to make here is that should you not be seeing messages sent to your Facebook profile, it is majorly traced to the fact that Facebook hides rather automatically people which you are not in your friends list/contacts.

Proceed to facebook.com/messages, when you arrive there tap on the “More” dropdown and select “Filtered” . This will display all messages which were not in your main inbox.

Now that is the end of this guide, and I hope it was useful.

How To Use The Recently Added WhatsApp Multi-Recipient Feature And ‘Frequent Chats"

How To Use The Recently Added WhatsApp Multi-Recipient Feature And ‘Frequent Chats"

There will be little argument as to the fact that WhatsApp is rightly one of the biggest mobile apps in the world. It is no revelation that Zuckerberg’s ambitions are to make WhatsApp everything you want as to a complete experience of textual communications. Fine tuning its efforts to this target, Facebook is not holding anything back as it is bent on pouring as many new features as they can ever make into WhatsApp. The latest of this is multi-message as well as a ‘frequent chats’ module.

The multi-message functionality is quite simple to grab. What it means is that when you are in the process of writing a message which you intend sending out to multiple discrete contacts as well as group chats, you will now long-tap the first recipient. The effect of this is unlocking a multi-selection mode. After this, you will tap all the planned recipients, follow this by pressing on the arrow button a so as to disseminate your message.
To this end, you will not have to you will not have to copy and paste updates and undertake the stress of sending to multiple parties; with this mode we are introducing in this guide, it is possible to do it all at once.

For now, we are well expectant that WhatsApp will be furnished with a handsome number of updates in the nearest time to come. The developers have working their way with experiments on image annotating, gif support, not excluding video calling.

So what are your thoughts concerning these updates to WhatsApp? The latest version of WhatsApp is up for grabs at the Google Play Store.

Voicemail Finally Comes To Whatsapp For Android And iOS. Here Is How To Use It.

Voicemail Finally Comes To Whatsapp For Android And iOS. Here Is How To Use It.

While the new that Whatsapp is ending support for Blackberry, Nokia and old Android/iOS devices come December, the Facebook-owned company is forging ahead with the development of the IM app for the devices still supported.

What I am trying to tell you essentially is that there has been an update for Whatsapp for Android and iOS, and while both have different version numbers (version 2.16.229 for Android and version 2.16.8 for iOS), the new update for both platforms comes with a new feature that is overdue;Voicemail.

When Whatsapp added the Voice Call feature for its app on all mobile platforms in 2015, there was a lot of excitement because the feature wasn't a common one in the mobile app world. Though the feature has been useful,there are times when you feel that it should be improved upon, particularly because the Voice Call feature is only useful when the second party is online.

That is exactly what voicemail is coming to fix in Whatsapp. Thanks to it, you can now leave a voice message when a Whatsapp call to a user is not picked or answered, as opposed to the norm of leaving a text message in the same situation.

How to use the Whatsapp Voicemail Feature

When your Whatsapp call to a user is not answered, you will be presented with three options: Voice Messages,Call Again and Cancel. You already know what the last two options are used for, it's the first one we're concerned about here.

To utilise the Voicemail feature after a Whatsapp call is not answered;

*.Select the Voice Message's option from the three options.

*.Tap and hold the voice Message button to start recording your message (voicemail).

*.When you're done recording your message, release theVoice Button to send it, or swipe to the left to trash it and record another.

The message you record would be sent to the user as a voice note (VN). Considering the series of new features that are being released to Whatsapp almost weekly, the Whatsapp Video Call feature that has been in the rumour mills for some time doesn't seem to be far from us anymore.

Video: AFC Bournemouth 1 – 3 Manchester United [Premier League] Highlights 2016/17

Video: AFC Bournemouth 1 – 3 Manchester United [Premier League] Highlights 2016/17

Jose Mourinho got off to the perfect start as the Red Devils boss as his side picked up three points in his first Premier League game in charge

Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Zlatan IBrahimovic were among the goals for Manchester United as they started their Premier League campaign with a 3-1 win over Bournemouth.

The Red Devils got off to the perfect start in Jose Mourinho’s first league game in charge, with his former Chelsea charge Mata opening the scoring in the first half.

Rooney headed in a second for the visitors before IBrahimovic’s fine strike from distance sailed into the net.

Bournemouth pulled one back later on through Adam Smith, but it remained a comfortable win for United.

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MTN XtraBytes: Why Will You Want To Borrow Data From MTN?

MTN XtraBytes: Why Will You Want To Borrow Data From MTN?

Telecom Companies always has a way to extort money out of every subscriber. Even if you don’t have plans to recharge your phone, they’ll give you an offer that will make you recharge your smartphone. I remember fully well when MTN launched Xtratime, that allow you to borrow money and pay later. A lot of people borrowed money and to pay back became a bone of contention

Now Again, MTN has launched another offer called Xtrabytes… that allow you to borrow data and pay later on your next recharge.

Facts You Must Know About MTN XtraBytes

1You must be eligible, dial *606# to check your eligibility

2. You can borrow data, even though you are yet to pay back your loaned Airtime from MTN.

3. You cannot borrow Data or Airtime multiple times
4. You can borrow 10MB, 30MB, 100MB,
200MB, and 750MB

5. MTN will deduct the equivalent of the amount you borrowed via airtime the moment your recharge your phone.

6. To check your xtrabytes data balance, dial *606#

7. The data you borrowed has the same expiry date as your normal data bundle.

8. You won’t be able to transfer the data you borrowed to another MTN line

9. MTN will charge you 10% extra on top of the data you are borrowing.

The question is why will you want to borrow data from MTN? Considering the facts that data is everywhere at a more cheaper rate regardless of the category you fall, you can always get data.

So tell us why will you want to borrow data from MTN?

How to Fix A Totally Dead MTK Android Smartphone... After Interrupting The Flashing Process

How to Fix A Totally Dead MTK Android Smartphone... After Interrupting The Flashing Process

No matter how you carefully handle your Android device, when the time comes for it to misbehave, it will definitely misbehave without your permission. There are all manner of fixes for various Android misbehaviors.

This time around, it is for those whose device is not coming up again after interrupting the flashing process while using SP Flashtool.

One thing you should know about SP flashtool is that once you interrupt the flashing or read back process, either by unknowing touching the USB cable or something else, the phone will go off and not come on at all. You might get the "USB device not recognized" error on further flashing attempts.
This will result into a totally dead phone.

How to Fix a Totally deadly Android Phone Like Tecno, Infinix Gionee or Any Other in MTK Family
>>Connect the dead phone to a computer (via a USB cord) or power source and leave it to charge for some time. It could take up to two hours or more but once the phone is revived, your battery could read as low as 1% .
>>Just leave it to keep charging before powering it up.

You Can Also Speed Things up by Doing The Below:

>>Remove the battery of the dead phone

>> Connect the phone to a charger without battery inside

>> Slot in the battery while the phone is still connected to the charger
* You could keep pressing the Volume up + Power button while charging
* You could remove and boost the battery using a desktop / external charger then resume internal charging.

>>Uninstall then re-install MTKvcom drivers you’ve earlier on installed on your PC computer.

Happy Fixing!

Video: Liverpool 4 – 0 Barcelona (International Champions Cup) 2016 Highlights

Video: Liverpool 4 – 0 Barcelona (International Champions Cup) 2016 Highlights

Sadio Mane opened the scoring just 15 minutes into the encounter when he slammed into the bottom corner from a neat pass from Adam Lallana.

Jordan Henderson made it 2-0 early in the second half, tucking a low pass from Divock Origi in off of Javier Mascherano. Almost immediately afterwards, Origi added a third, sliding it through the legs of Claudio Bravo.

And Marko Grujic added to the misery for Barcelona, scoring his side’s fourth in the dying minute.

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