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With over a billion monthly active users, WhatsApp, in addition to its constant updates has added a new feature – video calls. This New video calling feature is only available in the Beta version (Testing Mode Version). It’s as easy as you might imagine: pull up a contact in the app, tap the call button and choose ‘Video call’. 

 If the other person has a version of WhatsApp that supports the feature, it’ll launch a FaceTime-like call; if not, you’ll be notified that your contact needs to update their app. 


WhatsApp’s impending support for video calling appears to be closer to launch. According to new reports, the feature is now functional in some of the beta builds of the Android application, following its recent arrival in the Windows Phone version of the Facebook-owned messaging app. The iOS app was also updated just last week, but video calling support was not included at that time.

The arrival of video calling on Android was first spotted by the blog Android Police, which found that some users on the beta builds of the application were able to access video calling through an updated app interface.

For those on a version of WhatsApp which includes video calling support, you’re able to tap the call button or tap on a contact card to kick off a video call. In this case, a new dialog box will appear, offering the choice between a standard voice call and a video call. In addition, the call log will show which calls were made via video by annotating them with the camera icon, instead of the telephone icon.

When you have video calling, tapping the call button or contact card brings up a dialog with both voice and video as options. There may be a version of the app later that flips the switch on video calls automatically, but for now you're at the mercy of the WhatsApp gods.











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As the usual saying goes that Nothing Last forever, So goes for Batteries too, they don’t last forever — they only have so many charge cycles. As you use your battery, it will degrade over time and you’ll get less and less battery life from it. Eventually, you’ll want to replace a device’s battery — or get a new device with a new battery.
Even if you can’t access the battery yourself, you can often pay to have it replaced. For example, Apple stores will replace an iPhone or iPad’s battery for a fee.

All Batteries’ Capacities Decrease Over Time


A battery doesn’t just go from “good” to “bad.” Instead, as you use it, it will slowly degrade. The battery’s capacity will decrease and it’ll be able to store less and less power. This is a gradual process, and you won’t necessarily notice until you realize you used to get a few more hours of battery power from your device.

You can help prolong your battery’s life and keep its capacity up by properly caring for your battery, but all batteries will eventually fall victim to entropy. There’s just no getting around this. If you’re lucky, you’ll never have to replace your battery — it will just keep working well enough until you upgrade to a new phone, tablet, laptop, or other device with a new battery. If not, you’ll have to replace it.
If a battery is nearly dead, some devices will warn you that it’s time to replace it.

How to View a Device’s Battery Health

You can check your battery’s health level before you see a critical warning. Some devices may not display such a warning at all, so you may need to check the battery health information to see whether the status is critically low or not. Here’s how to find battery health information on some common operating system:
  • Windows Laptops: We recommend NirSoft’s BatteryInfoView to find a Windows laptop’s battery health, but there are other utilities you can use instead.
  • MacBooks: Hold down the Option key and click the battery icon on the menu bar. You’ll see a “Condition:” line displayed here.
  • iPhones and iPads: You’ll need some sort of third-party application that will display your device’s battery health. For example, CoconutBattery is an app you can install on your Mac. It’ll let you view the battery status of connected iPhones and iPads. This information isn’t normally displayed in iOS.
  • Android Phones: Open the dialer app and dial *#*#4636#*#*. Tap “Battery information” to see that status of your Android device’s battery.
For other devices, search for the type of device and “battery health” to get instructions.






When It’s Time to Replace a Battery

Whatever your device says about the health of its battery, it doesn’t necessarily matter. For example, if your battery reports it’s at 40 percent of its original capacity and you’re still happy with how much battery life you get, you don’t necessarily need to replace it. But its battery life will continue to decrease.
On the other hand, if you’ve seen a device’s battery life decline sharply and you want longer battery life from it, it’s probably time to replace its battery. Be sure to follow tips for extending a device’s battery life before deciding the battery’s hardware is at fault. It could just be background applications draining your device’s battery more quickly.

How to Replace a Battery

If you have a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or another device with a removable battery, this is easy. You’ll just need to purchase a replacement battery designed specifically for your device, power down your device, and then replace the current battery with the new one. This will give your device a fresh battery with maximum capacity, increasing its battery life.
More and more smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices are made without batteries you can access yourself. In some cases, these are designed so the manufacturer can replace the battery for you. For example, you can take an old iPhone, iPad, or MacBook to an Apple Store and pay a fee to have Apple employees open your device and replace the battery for you. Check if your manufacturer offers this service.
There’s always the option of doing it yourself, of course. You could potentially open up your device, get a replacement battery, and try to seal it back up again. We don’t necessarily recommend this — so many modern devices have batteries and other components that are glued together and not designed to be opened. This may be a more reasonable option for some devices — it depends on the device and how it’s built.

The battery health status your device reports can help you decide whether it’s time to replace your battery, but the decision is ultimately up to you and based on how much battery life you need. For example, if you have a laptop that originally offered eight hour battery life but is now down to four hours, you may not necessarily want to replace the battery. If that four hours is good enough for you, you may want to save your money and put it toward buying a new laptop in the future. That’s your decision.
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Laptops, tablets, and phones never seem to know exactly how many hours of power they have left. The estimate may jump from two hours to five hours before dropping back down to one hour. Even worse, the battery may suddenly die without warning.

Your Device Is Just Guessing Based on Your Current Usage


Your device’s battery drains faster when it does more demanding things. All your laptop can do is monitor how fast its battery has been draining over the last several minutes and make an informed guess. So even if you have 100% battery power left, you’ll see a different number of estimated hours depending on how hard your computer is currently working.
For example, a laptop might estimate ten hours of battery life if you dim its display and browse the web. Crank the display brightness to maximum and launch a demanding PC game, though, and the estimate might become two hours.
It’s just a prediction. If you see a low estimate, you can make your battery last longer by easing up on it. If you see a high estimate, you won’t get anywhere near that many hours if you start using your hardware heavily.
This estimate can also fluctuate based on the work your computer is doing in the background. For example, Windows might be installing updates–that will use more CPU resources, drain battery power more quickly, and lower the estimate. Even if you’re just browsing the web, some websites–especially ones with video ads–use more system resources than others.
In other words, your device makes an estimate based on the current rate of battery drain. It’s similar to why progress bars can be so inaccurate. It can’t predict the future, only guess based on current conditions.

If the Battery Dies Without Warning, It Doesn’t Know How Much Juice it Has


Batteries suffer wear and tear as you use them. This causes them to decrease in health. In other words, they won’t hold as much power.
The hardware that monitors how much capacity the battery has left may have an inaccurate estimate, which why a device might die when the operating system is still reporting 10% or even 20% battery power left.
Some devices are better at understanding how much power they have. Circuitry on the battery itself generally reports the battery’s capacity and health to the operating system. But, if you find your device dying when the operating system reports 20% or 10% battery life left, the battery may need recalibration.
You can recalibrate a battery by draining it down to empty before charging it back to full capacity. It won’t make the battery last any longer, but it will help the hardware understand how much capacity the battery has left and make more accurate estimates.
You can check the health and capacity of your battery on pretty much any device, too. On Windows, you can generate a battery health report that shows you the “design capacity” that your battery had when it arrived from the factory and the “full charge capacity” it currently has. The current full charge capacity will be lower than the original design capacity due to the battery deteriorating.
Battery life estimates will never be completely accurate, but the percentage figure is more accurate than the time estimate. If the reported percentage seems wrong, recalibrate the battery so it understands how much power the battery can actually store.

 Are you experiencing any issues with your battery? Let us know, We would like to help.
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5 Useful Things You Can Do with OK Google


Apple users have Siri, Windows 10 users can call upon Cortana, and Android users can use Ok Google. Ok Google can do a lot more than just look stuff up however, and it even rivals Siri in some ways.

 Ok Google can be accessed by typically saying “Ok Google” or tapping the microphone button on the Google search bar on your Android tablet or phone.
t’s important to note that Ok Google is accessible if you have Google Now installed on your smartphone or tablet, so if you can’t access it, then you’ll first need to download and install Google Now from the Play Store if your version of Android supports it.

The Google Now Launcher is only available for Android 4.1 and above.
Many users might already use Ok Google to look stuff up because it plugs right into the mighty search engine. What you might not realize, is that it can do so much more and is, in fact, a fairly full-featured digital personal assistant.
Today, we want to take a tour of many of the things you can do with Ok Google and show you how it can make your life just a little bit more convenient and easier.

Open Applications

With Ok Google, you can open applications without touching your device, simply say, “Ok Google, open Pandora” or “open Netflix” and it will dutifully open them on your device.
The ability to open applications means that you won’t have to hunt for them on your home screen(s).
If the application isn’t available, then you will have the option to download it from the Play Store.

Set Timers and Alarms

Need to set a quick timer for something you’re cooking? Maybe you want to take a short power nap. No problem, just tell Ok Google to “set a timer for 15 minutes” or “set an alarm for 6:30 PM” and that’s it.
When you start a timer, you simply specify the duration for your timer and it will begin automatically.

On the other hand, if you want to stop your timer or cancel your alarm, it seems that you have to still do so manually.

Define Words

Not sure what something means or even how to spell it? You can ask Ok Google to define it for you so you always use the right word in the right place.
Now the next time you’re unsure whether you’re using the right word in the right context, you can just ask Ok Google.

Call, Text, and Message People

Two other things you can do with Ok Google, both of which are similar and thus lumped under the same heading are the ability to call and text people.
Just like with Siri, you can use Ok Google to call and text people, thus assuring that if you’re driving, your eyes never leave the road.
This works just as it does with Siri. Simply queue up Ok Google and then ask it to call a contact or a number or text someone. Ok Google will either prompt you for further information, or you can dictate the message contents when you give the command.

Once you have your text message ready, you can send it on its way. Additionally, you can have Ok Google read your text messages back to you, which means that your eyes never need to leave what you’re doing.
You can also use Ok Google to send Hangouts messages as well as post to Twitter and Facebook.

Change Settings and Control Your Device

You can use Ok Google to control your device and change settings, here we ask it to turn on the flashlight.
Obviously, you can affect all kinds of settings as well, such as Wi-Fi, which is especially convenient if your mobile connection is unreliable or vice-versa.

You can try this out with all your settings to make it a lot more easier to use your phone or tablet to make quick adjustments. Want to take a picture or shoot a quick video? Ask Ok Google to “take a picture” or “shoot a video” and that’s it.

Other Stuff

There’re a quite a few other things you can do with Ok Google, some of which include:
  • Track packages provided you have the tracking information in an email message.
  • Show you which bills are due.
  • Display your flight info (it needs to be in an email message).
  • Ask for sport scores and team schedules.
  • Play and control music from Google Play Music.
  • Ask where and what movies are playing.
As you can see, Ok Google is similarly useful to Siri in many ways and quite versatile to boot. Additionally, because it is plugged into Google, you can search for anything.
Overall, Ok Google has come a long way from when it was simply a convenient way to map routes and search for stuff. As time goes on, it’s gaining more and more skills that are giving the likes of Siri a run for its money.

In any event, if you use any of the latest Android phones or tablets, then Ok Google is more than likely going to available to you.
We hope you found his article informative and useful, if you have any questions or comments you would like to contribute, please leave your feedback in our comment box.
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You can sign a PDF document from your phone, tablet, or any other computer and email it off to someone. But some organizations still don’t accept documents via email — you may need to fax documents instead.
No, you can’t use your smartphone’s phone connection as a fax machine or dial-up modem. You’ll need to rely on an app or third-party service that does the faxing for you, just as you would sending the occasional fax from your PC

Yes, This Will Cost You

You won’t find an app that lets you send an unlimited number of faxes for free. Every app you’ll find here will cost you money to use regularly. Some apps may let you send a handful of pages for free, but that’s it. These services have to maintain phone numbers and interface with the telephone network for you. Your smartphone can’t act as a dial-up modem, so you’re depending on a service’s servers to do the heavy lifting.
But, although this will cost you, it can save you money and be more convenient than the alternative. The alternative is paying to use fax machines at a store, or purchasing your own fax machine and hooking it up to a telephone landline. Both will likely be significantly more expensive if you just need to send a few faxes.
This method also lets you do everything entirely electronically. You can sign and fill in PDF documents on your phone and fax them. Or, use your phone’s camera to scan paper documents and fax them.

iPhone or Android Apps

.Search for “fax” on the App Store and you’ll find quite a few options, but none of the apps areactually free, and the few that do provide a few free fax pages are usually limited to just a handful of pages before they start charging you.
But there’s a bigger problem — the vast majority of the time when you need to fax something, you’re faxing a document that contains very personal information — it’s health care and government that tend to require faxing things, after all, and they are also dealing with your personal information.
You should not trust just anybody with handling your personal information in a fax. So we’ve got some recommendations for you.

If you are going to be sending sensitive faxes all the time, or you work for a company and you’re trying to choose a service, RingCentral Fax, which is partially owned by Cisco and AT&T, is probably the best choice for your needs, especially since they have a lot of great security features and support for multiple users with separate fax lines.
They also have a really slick mobile app that’s probably one of the nicest ways to deal with faxing, or you can send faxes through email instead. It has all the other features you can imagine, including integrations with Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and you can even get a toll-free number. It also has a lot of security features that would be useful for businesses or people that are transmitting secure information.
Of course, if you just want to send a few faxes, you can sign up for one of their cheap plans that start under $7 per month… and then just cancel after a month or two.
Occasional User:
If you just want to send a few faxes every now and then, you can also choose eFax, which is well known as the company that basically invented faxing digitally. They have a nice mobile app that lets you both send and receive faxes.
If you just need to send the occasional fax, we also recommend MyFax, which lets you send up to 10 free pages without having to pay. This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s more pages per month than most people have to fax per year. If you do need to send more pages each month, you can upgrade to a regular plan.
Both of these providers are reputable and owned by the same large company that has been doing this for years. It’s not some fly-by-night operation. They might not have all the security features that RingCentral does, but you don’t need to worry about who has your personal information.

Faxing Over Email



If you’re using Windows Phone, Blackberry, a Fire Tablet, or some other operating system, you can always sign up for RingCentral, eFax, or MyFax and then use their website to send the fax — or you can use their fax by email feature.

Almost all of the providers let you send faxes by emailing a document to the number you are trying to fax to, combined with a custom ending. For instance if you wanted to fax something to 2348-0345-0943, you would send the document to an email like 2348034509493@somefaxservicehere.com (not a real address).
Being able to send faxes over email means that any mobile device can easily send faxes without needing to install an extra app.
Ultimately, there’s no single best fax application for everyone. If you need to send quite a few pages on an ongoing basis, a subscription-based service like RingCentral or eFax could be the best. If you want to just send a quick fax, MyFax is probably your best bet.
If you’re using another smartphone platform (like Windows Phone), your best bet is to find a fax service that lets you fax by email, which is generally the easiest and best way to send faxes anyway.

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What Secret Conversation Is (and Isn’t)
Facebook has finally gotten with the times and rolled out device-to-device encrypted communication to all of the billion Facebook Messenger users. The new secret conversation mode feature on Facebook mobile messenger App allows  conversations between two chat partners to be encrypted using a protocol known as "Open Whisper Systems peer-reviewed Signal protocol" 
 Here’s how to turn it on, and why you should start using it now.

While that’s all super awesome, the whole thing isn’t without a few shortcomings. First of all, it requires the Facebook Messenger app–this feature isn’t available on the desktop version of Facebook.
In addition, while the feature is turned on by default (depending on your device), your messages aren’t encrypted by default–you have to manually start a secret conversation in order to use encryption. In 2016, heavy duty encryption should be the norm. Further, if your chat partner is using an older copy of Messenger because they haven’t (or can’t) upgrade, then you can’t use the encryption with them. It also doesn’t work with group chats because it’s a device-to-device system, and presently doesn’t support multi-user encryption (and won’t support this feature in the foreseeable future).
In addition it doesn’t work with video, voice calling, or GIF files (which is fair because it would introduce a huge amount of overhead to encrypt those large files) but you can  send images through the encrypted chat. Finally, because the encryption keys are device specific, unlike with traditional Messenger messages you can’t switch between your phone and your tablet and keep the same conversation going. The device you start a Secret Conversation on is the device you have to end it on, and you can only use it on one device at a time.
All that said, however, the introduction of secure and proper end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger is a fantastic improvement–and it’s an improvement everyone should be taking advantage of. Given the enormous number of leaks over the last few years that indicate practically everyone is eavesdropping on our digital communications, you have nothing to lose from enabling encryption wherever you can.

How to Use Secret Conversation

Now that we’ve gone through a quick run through of what Secret Conversation can and cannot do, let’s jump right into using it including creating new messages, setting self-destruct timers, and even wiping all your secret conversations at once.

Select Which Device You’ll Use

Like we mentioned above, you can only use this feature on one device at a time, and you have to use that device for all your encrypted communication. If you only use Facebook Messenger on your phone, then no worries–jump right to the next section.
If, on the other hand, you’ve got it installed on multiple devices–like an iPhone, an iPad, and an iPod Touch you use as a kick-around device to read social media in the bathroom with–you have to pick which one will be the carrier of the encrypted torch.
By default, the first device you upgrade to the latest version of Facebook Messenger will be the one that the feature is turned on for. If you need to toggle it on for a different device, however, you can do so easily. Open Facebook Messenger on your device and tap the little silhouette “Me” icon in the lower corner.
Scroll down until you see the settings entry for “Secret Conversation”. Tap on it.

Ensure “Secret Conversations” is toggled on.
Don’t worry about following up with your other devices, as soon as you turn the feature on while using your primary device, it will automatically be disabled on all the other devices.

Starting a Brand New Secret Conversation

There are two ways to start a Secret Conversation: you can start one fresh, or you can switch an existing conversation over. To start a fresh one with a friend, you simply tap on the compose icon at the top of Messenger’s home screen, like so.
Select “Secret” in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Once you select “Secret” just pick the friend you want to send the secret message to on the next page and you’re in business.
The giant “Secret Conversation” and black lock icon tell you all you need to know: the conversation is now encrypted. Simply use Messenger like you otherwise would.
That’s all you can easily begin enjoying encrypted chat with all your Facebook Messenger pals. There are more advanced features of this new Conversation mode. That will be explained in the next article.  
Try this feature and don't forget to share your feelings and experience with the new feature. 

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You’ve heard it in commercials, seen it plastered across billboards, and maybe even read about it in your cellphone plan. But what is 4G LTE, and how do its speeds and coverage compare to other 3G and 4G networks?
3G is required to meet IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications-2000) technical standards, which means a peak download rate of 200 Kbps, or 0.2 Mbps. This may seem slow to you now, but at the time, it was enough to get your email in a timely fashion.
Logically, the next step after 3G–the third generation of wireless mobile communications technology–would be 4G, or the fourth generation. The the ITU Radiocommunications Sector (ITU-R) set some requirements as to what would constitute a 4G network: it must provide peak 100 Mbps downloads if you’re using a mobile device such as a phone or tablet. More stationary devices, such as mobile hotspots, should provide peaks speeds of 1 Gbps.
In more recent years, 3G has made some advancements. High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), for example, can offer theoretical speeds up to 7.2 Mbps, and is often called 3.5G or Turbo 3G.
Then came 4G, in the form of Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE). Both were marketed this as “4G”, even though they didn’t meet the ITU’s standards–neither reached that 100 Mbps download rate.
LTE, however, wasn’t just another improvement of 3G. It was meant to be more of an umbrella term given to the technologies designed to get us to the 4G standard. In other words, it’s what 4G will be be when the technology evolves enough to provide those speeds. It’s 4G-Eventually.
As a way of compromising, the ITU-R decided that mobile carriers could market LTE (and HSPA) as 4G, since they represented a significant improvement over 3G and paved the way for true 4G speeds.

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Facebook Marketplace already launched in US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. It will be another milestone for the largest social media company to make the most of the available e-commerce opportunities.
About 450 million users are reported to already using the platform for buying and selling stuff every month. Until now, this e-commerce feature was limited to groups, but with Facebook Marketplace, users will be able to make transactions and exchanges in a more formal manner.
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Following the launch of 4G LTE data network by MTN last week, Indigenous Mobile Telecommunication Network (GLO) has followed suit. Globacom has also launched its 4G LTE Network in selected cities nationwide with more cities coming soon. As this will give her customer access to the fastest data speed in Nigeria. 

The announcement was made via the telco’s official Twitter account earlier this afternoon.  Glo 4G LTE data plans range from as low as ₦500, for 1.6GB (1 week) to as high as ₦18,000, for 90GB (30 days)
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