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Minister clarifies that the deadline has just been removed and the exercise should continue. Before clouds of speculations had formed around the deadline for the vehicle inspection exercise provoking parliamentary legislators to react on the matters with fears of congestion at the inspection centers.  Clearing the dust, the minister of states for works and construction, General Edward Katumba Wamala dismissed the speculations of 30th June vehicle inspection deadline earlier circulated. In a statement General Katumba Wamala said that;   Hon minister presented a statement on the floor of the parliament which stated there was no deadline on provision of the service. The Hon speaker agreed and ruled that any announcement to this effect should stop and the ministry will run an announcement that there's no deadline. Shading lights on the exercise, he clarified that private small vehicles are to be inspected twice annually and once for heavy trucks. The inspection fre

It's almost every day passes by, facebook adds a handy of features to it's app. In a row facebook has added the GIF comment feature and the profile picture protection support to it's platform. Facebook understands the necessity of being connected that's why it's unveiling the "Find Wi- Fi " feature for users. The feature has been under test for  quite a month of Sundays since last year in a select countries for iOS users. Find Wi-Fi is now available globally for everyone across Android and iOS users.  The feature (find wi-fi) is intended to allow users to locate hotspots near them shared by businesses with facebook on their page. The major target is the users traveling and those in areas with scarce connection. This is a great move taken by facebook to keep It's 2 billion monthly users glued to the network. To use the find Wi-Fi feature, open the facebook app and scroll on more tab and select Find Wi-Fi. Now enable the feature to fi

Facebook takes your privacy too serious that's why it's rolling out different security measures to it's users to avoid manipulation of their privacy. In some cases you find strangers tagging your photos, with this new feature, it will disable downloading, tagging, sharing, sending photos in messages  and capturing (screenshots on Android) of profile pictures. We hope to see this support eradicating use of photos not owned both on facebook and on other chatting networks as it is on some dating sites, some malicious people use third party photos to defraud others. However there's a room for users to capture  screengrabs on laptops and desktops and hope with time it will be dealt with. Facebook is rolling out this support to cater for the interests of the Indians especially ladies. In most cases, ladies in India didn't want to upload  profile pictures on facebook because privacy matters.  Facebook partnered with the security organizations of India like L

Facebook has added the long awaited GIF feature to the comment tab. The feature is available globally across all platforms and devices supporting GIF. The  GIF enthusiasts now can be able to comment using GIF. The feature also allows to search and comment with your GIF on the status of a friend or a page. The GIF support is on the same line next to emoji. Facebook reached this mile stone when GIF was celebrating it's 30th anniversary. The GIF has Giphy studio's prominent faces around the internet, wishing GIFs like  birthday wishes and among others. Facebook now joins the footing of  messenger who rolled out the the GIF  feature to it's users  back in 2015. According to the statistics over 13 billion GIFs were sent last year. Now facebook being the  giant social media with over 1.2 billion users, we anticipate the bars to raise higher. One of the downside i came across the GIF feature, it's not data friendly (consumes alot of data), you need to

One of the days to remember  in history is 12/05/2017, on that day the world cried fowl to cyber attack known as ransomware wannacry. In that  incident more than 200,000 computers were encrypted from more than 150countries. Windows OS was affected most since most companies were using the obsolete Windows  XP. Though Microsoft had stopped updates for WindowsXP, it has released the security patches for WindowsXP alongside other regular updates to cater for other Windows versions.  In this case, users of WindowsXP are required to download and install the security patches to ensure safety against attacks. The download is available in two options, you can use Microsoft download center( here ) or update catalog.  For those using Windows 8.1 or 10 supporting  auto update don't need to bother to take any action. For users managing their updates manually are required to update their systems to the latest to overcome the risks of cyber attacks.  Source: Microsoft

Each and every the world is getting smart, internet is becoming a necessity, hope you have heard of Internet Of Things(IOT) and Li-Fi is the new competitor to Wi-Fi. Very soon we shall see drones connecting the world to internet. Internet is almost a basic need to the world. The way internet is simplifying life, the more people continue to use it. According to statistics, 3,731,973,423 is the estimated number of internet users out of the estimated world population (7,519,028,970) and growth of users is estimated at an abnormal percentage of 900% for the past  17 years with  facebook estimated at 1.2 billion users, instagram at  700,000,000 users with  200 million daily users. Are we  safe, do you take take time to secure your privacy online? Recently 3 Scammers from Nigeria were jailed for 235 for cyber offences, how sure are you if you are not the next victim. avoid displaying your contacts online always,  especially on some social networks i always come across such posts " co

Tecno W5 Lite is the  successor to tecno W4 and a competitor to W5. It's a mid range phone if you compare the price to it's specifications, you have to trust me. No doubt tecno will continue to dominate the emerging market of internet and smartphone users  with its budget friendly phones. One of the features I i love most about  the phone is micro intelligence and other cool specifications. Tecno W5 Lite has micro intelligence, if you don't know how it works, this is the way to go. With micro intelligence, users can quickly awake and sleep their phones by double  tapping the home screen. In most cases user tend to forget to silence or switch off their phones especially in public gatherings and end up fumbling to silence the incoming calls. With micro intelligence, Silencing the incoming calls is hustle free, the user just needs to cover the screen with his or her palm to silence the calls. Capturing screenshots for some contents is quite a complex,this applies