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Technology changing lives in Kenya

2015-09-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

If you are looking for profitable start ups to invest in, Kenya is the place to be. We are living in the information era and the Kenyans have seen this. They have launched incubation hubs all over the country to tap into the creative minds of its citizens. Incubation hubs like nailab.co.ke and mlab.co.ke are fast becoming go to places for the many unemployed youth in Kenya.

have you ever been broke?

2014-02-10T23:55:00.000-08:00

Hello guys,today i am going to introduce you into the world of business. Okay,this is what i mean..have you ever been broke?i bet you have. We have all been broke one way or another and we have a lways wondered where we can get money ti get us out of our predicaments. Let us begin with a quotee from this interestingread i saw which said that no matter how much you complain of having no money being broke is a state of mind. Am sure by now you are asking yourself how this has anything to do with technology and gadgets. If you read closely the first lines you will clearly see i want you to understand mechanics of busineas. Keep reading and on my next post i will show you how this works.

Fixing a chrashed hard disk

2009-05-09T21:11:00.000-07:00

There is nothing as sad as having all your important data disappear right in front of your eyes. All those music collections, the movies you had saved, the documents your whole life. As for now your computer is as good as dead with out the data you relied on a lot. your heart is racing fast, you know its all over and there is nothing you can do to bring it back. You take it to the computer fix shop and they to give you the sad news.

Actually there is something you can still do to get the stuff you value most.

If you have tried using data recovery software's and you still don't get anything out of it try to place it in the freezer.

A hard disk contains plates inside it and niddles that read and write information on them. They are very sensitive and the niddles are so close to the plate surface even a small dust particle can make it crush. That's why hard disk drives are air proof. if he niddle became lose and lost its position its probably touching the surface of the plates making it impossible to read the information on the disk. but placing it in the free the metal niddle will contract and regain there original shape allowing you to harvest as much information from it as possible. This method is not permanent, as soon as the hard disk becomes warm it will lose its position. but you will have collected some data from it. you can try it again until your feeling satisfied.

Upgrading your website

2009-04-28T23:49:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
Its time to give your website a new look. Doing so does not have to cost you a thing! There many ways in which u can make your website or blog look attractive and pleasant. If you are using it for business it would improve customers confidence of your web site and if its a blog it would definitely increase your subscriber base. Using flash is very easy, minimal knowledge is required there are websites that offer really cool flash templates to use. The best part of it is you are allowed to use it any way you want to. i suggest you have a look at them. Here are some of the coolest places where you can find templates that will give your website a whole new meaning...
Adobe have been generous enough to provide you with 30 days trial that's enough time for you to edit your flash if you like it a lot you can buy the entire css3 package from adobe website.

For those of you who use blogger as your blogging platform you can find some pretty cool templates at Free blogger Templates

(screen shot of the free blogger templates page)

Wordpress is known for its rich collection of templates to use. this professional looking templates will make your blog stand out from the rest in no time. You can get this amazing templates and themes from Free wordpress Templates and themes and also from smashingmagazine

(some cool templates found at free wordpress templates)

(some of the templates found in SmashingMagazine that would blow your mind off!)

For those of you who have websites either for personal use or business, you can use this wonderful flash templates from Flashmo. I have personally used them before and all i can say is its a peace of work worth using. The templates look modern and will give your website a professional look.The flash templates can be saved either in swf, FLV or HTML extenstion.

(Flashmo home page showing some of the cool flash templates)

If your interested in becoming a pro in flash you can get some tutorials from Web Design Library They offer great tutorial that should be handy to you. However you would still be a professional in it when you use it from time to time.
Others wise enjoy the fruits of you website:) For Po Keng

Say good bye to Yoog search Engine!

2009-04-25T21:29:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, I am holding a blog carnival on Wednesday. All bloggers who blog about internet treats, software,security, computers and anything related to that matter are welcomed to write something about the notorious Yoog search engine and publish it in your own blog then submit to me a link to your blog which I will then post in mine together with a summary about your post. This would help improve your blog ratings!! as well as help find a permanent solution to removing the Yoog Search Engine from Firefox and Internet Explorer. You are required to promote the Kill Yoog Search Engine carnival on your blogs in order to attract more bloggers and therefore increasing blog rankings and of all the participants in this Topic which includes your blog too! Say NO to Yoog search Engine Improve your Blog ratings!!!
Lets find a solution
All links to your post should be send to this address: kemei87@gmail.com :)

Removing Yoog Search Engine

2009-04-25T03:45:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody,
One of my friends was ounce infected by this annoying hard to remove search engine.
YOOG as it is known, surprisingly installed it self into his browser. Although it looks harmless. I came to notice this annoying malware infection- that attaches its self on both Firefox and Explore. Other browsers such as Opera, Google Chrome and Safari don't get affected by it.

No matter how much you try it would still show it self as the default search engine for the two browsers. Whether you delete it from the search engine list or you completely uninstall the two browsers. The minute you re-install the browser, thinking your safe then you would be sorry because you haven't seen the last of it.
YOOG attaches its self to our system32 files and hides its roots somewhere inside.
Here is a quick way to remove it ounce and for all I did lot of research and tried a lot of ways before I stumbled upon this effective method. I came across this method in one of the forums and it did work out fine for me at he time.

Instructions

In Mozilla Firefox
- Open Firefox and click Bookmarks/Organise Bookmarks.

- Click Import and Backup and select ‘Backup’. Choose the destination for saving this file and click ‘Save’.

Only Do Steps 1 and 2 if you want to save all your current ‘Bookmarks’ and ‘Bookmark Folders’ otherwise you can skip this part.

- Uninstall Mozilla Firefox - Control Panel/Add Remove Programs/Mozilla/Uninstall.

– Now remove all traces of Mozilla Firefox from your system - My Computer/C:/Documents and Settings/Admin *or whatever your System Username is*/Application Data *(if this is hidden click folder options and tick the box that says show hidden folders*/Mozilla/Delete this folder if it is still there.

- Remove any other Mozilla Files - Click Start (bottom left corner) and click 'Search'/click 'Search All Files and Folders'/Type in 'Mozilla' in the section that says 'all or part of the file name'/then click 'More Advanced Options' and tick both 'Search System Folders' and 'Search Hidden Files and Folders'/*Click Search and Wait*

- Once the Search has finished, locate the Mozilla files listed and delete them from your system, this includes any Mozilla Files that may be in a different programs such as a Photo Editor.

- When all traces of Mozilla have been deleted from your PC (be sure to empty your ‘Recycle Bin’) then restart your system.

- Download the following programs from these locations if you do not already have them, install them one by one and ensure you update them online. Do not run them yet; just ensure they are up to date.
• AdAware (Green Package is Free)
• SuperAntispyware
• Spybot Search & Destroy
• Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

– Temporarily turn off your internet connection and disable your current Anti Virus/Spyware programs so they do not interfere with the new programs we will run.

– Run the programs in the order above, ensuring that you follow each step carefully including any back up requests and re-boots. *I only used the first three to clean my system*

– After rebooting your system, you can uninstall these programs you can then reconnect the internet

Restart Firefox to ensure the Yoog Malware has gone and then import your ‘Saved Bookmarks’ by following Steps 1 and 2 but this time choosing ‘Import’ instead of ‘Backup’.

Your System should now be clean from the Yoog Malware as well as any other Malware your current security software may have missed. I hope this helped.

malwarebytes
**** NOTE****
There is no official way to remove the YOOG Malware it might change its structure in future making it impossible to remove it using this method.
I hope this would solve your problems. If you found a better way when this does not seem to work. Please be kind and update it by leaving a comment of your new method so it can solve other readers problems thanks:)

8 ways to hack Firefox to load faster

2009-04-22T06:00:00.000-07:00

Firefox had been leading the browser sector for a long time! Other major players in this department are Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and the one year only Google Chrome. Internet Explorer and Safari have been made popular by the fact that they are usually part and parcel of Window OS and Mac OS respectively.

On their hand Firefox- which is the most popular among them all and Opera have been gained popularity from hard work! Today am going to show you way in which you can hack your Firefox into fast response web browser.

1. Enabling Pipelining

Browsers usually send requests to a server then wait for a response before they continue. The time taken to get a response can be long –increasing the page load time.

Pipelining is a more forceful technique which allows the browser to send multiple requests to the server before any responses are received which reduces the time taken to load a page.

Procedure

Type in the address bar of your browser about:config . Double- click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipeling to set their values to true. After that double- click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to 8

2. Render quickly

Large, complex pages especially the ones that carry heavy flash use can take a long to load. It is the nature of Firefox not to keep you waiting. Therefore by default the browser will display what it receives so far every 0.12 seconds although this makes the browser seem faster, frequent redraws increases the total page load time. Increasing the content notify interval will improve the performance.

Procedure

Type about:config in your browser web address box. After that right- click (for apple user’s ctrl-click) anywhere in the window and select new >integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK,enter 500000 then click Ok.

Right-click again anywhere on the window and select new>Boolean. And creat a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to true.

3. Faster loading

If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.

Procedure

Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.

4. No interruptions

You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.

Procedure

Type about:config, press Enter, right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.

5. Block Flash

Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there's a very easy solution.

Procedure

Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn't entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.

6. Increase the cache size

As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size.

Procedure

Type about:config and press Enter, then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.

7. Enable TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It's still buggy so isn't available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you're willing to risk the odd crash or two then there's an easy way to try it out.

Procedure

Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that's it - you're running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.

8. Compress data

If you've a slow internet connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that's not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there's much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you're on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance. enjoy:)

techradar

Top Ten Free Web Hosting

2009-04-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, its another beautiful Wednesday and am going to share something interesting to you.
I know there a lot of you out there who are just testing the waters of internet. The web has a lot of potential. If used wisely, you can benefit from it by earning big cash from it. Lets face it. There many million dollar companies that get there income just from using the web.
There was a time i had written about Free web hosting with benefits.
If your new to this and you want to start your own website, at the same time you don't want to dig out some of your hard earned money to buy a domain and hosting services. I suggest you should start with the free ones, just get a grip of it see how things run along. Then when you pretty sure you can now stand on you feet then your ready to join the big boys. I will later write about the best cheapest web hosting companies. As for now lets stick to Best Top Ten Free web Hosting.
I hope this information will help you.

Rank

Top Web Hosts

Features

Highlights

Details

1	Blogger.com Unlimited domain hosting	¤ Unlim. space ¤ Unlim. traffic	¤ FREE publishing ¤ Simple to use interface ¤ Add on gadgets ¤ Third-party applications	Blogger review
2	WordPress Best customer support	¤ Unlim. storage ¤ Unlim. traffic	¤ Great writing tools ¤ Dozens of gourgious themes ¤ Blog, forums	WorldPress review
3	000Webhosting.com BestFree cPanel hosting	¤ Unlim. webspace ¤ Unlim. bandwidth	¤ FREE domain ¤ Ruby On Rails ¤ e-Commerce tools ¤ Cpannel ¤ PHP/MySQL/Pearl	000Webhosting review
4	BlueHost.com Best multi-domain host	¤ Unlim. space ¤ Unlim. transfer	¤ FREE domain ¤ SSH access ¤ $50 Yahoo! credit	BlueHost Review
5	IXWebHosting.com Best Business hosting	¤ Unlim. space ¤ Unlim. traffic	¤ FREE domain ¤ Dedicated IP ¤ eCommerce ready	IXWebHosting Review

Rank

Top Web Hosts

Features

Highlights

Details

6	EasyCGI.com Best windows hosting	¤ 350 GB of space ¤ 3500 GB traffic	¤ Windows 2003 OS ¤ ASP, .NET, Access ¤ FREE Script Library	EasyCGI Review
7	iPower.com Easy web site hosting	¤ 1500 GB storage ¤ 15000 GB traffic	¤ FREE domain ¤ e-Commerce tools ¤ $30 Adwords credit	iPower Review
8	1and1.com Cheapest website hosting	¤ 10 GB web space ¤ 300 GB of traffic	¤ FREE domain ¤ 1&1 Photo Gallery ¤ $100 Ads credit	1and1 Review
9	Dot5Hosting.com Best budget web hosting	¤ Unlim. space ¤ Unlim. transfer	¤ FREE domain ¤ Ruby On Rails ¤ e-Commerce tools	Dot5 Hosting Review
10	ResellersPanel.com Shared & reseller hosting	¤ 15 GB disk space ¤ 300 GB of traffic	¤ FREE domain ¤ FREE reseller hosting account	Resellers Panel Review

Quality information

2009-04-18T21:00:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I have now taken it into consideration to improve the quality of information that is posted on this blog. It is my sole duty to do more research and review the contents and so that what comes our is of the highest quality and you has my reader feel satisfied. Please feel free to drop a comment if you have anything in mind that would benefit other readers and the blog as a whole. if you are a blogger also drop me an email and we can help each other and see our blog grow..
Otherwise its a beautiful weekend am sure all of you will make the best out of it .

(Bloggers Unite)

Feel free to drop a comment:)

Why is my blog not showing on google search?

2009-04-17T18:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some great tips on how make your blog listed on Google and other search engines.
Not everyone who creates a blog hosted by TypePad, Blogger or WordPress.com
is guaranteed that his/her blog will be listed.
I remember for this very blog I am using I had the same problem. It made me give up blogging, something love doing.
I search the entire web on how to make your blog listed and I got several answers which i tried out but still it did not show.
Here I will show you some simple ways on how to over come this problem fast.

Open a Google web master tool account and submit your new blog there. Google web master provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility and helps you find the problems that hinder it from being shown on the on Google search engine.

After your have submitted your blogs URL at Google web master tools, and it has been verified. You can know proceed to the next step submitting your site map of your blog. It is not that difficult to do that all you can you can use an RSS/Atom feed as a site map. When that’s done it’s now time to promote your blog.

Technotari is one of the best traffic providers . You will be able to get traffic from people who search their tags. They also have a large blog ranking engine that is based on the number of links to your blog from various websites.

Have your blog also listed in web directories. One of the best is BlogTopSite it makes your blog be found easier and it’s a top blog ranking.

Have your blog linked with other blogs do this by linking it to your friend’s blogs or ask other bloggers to put a link to your blog. This would help increase the chances of your blog showing up buy know you will be having hundreds of viewers. Happy blogging :)

How to conduct yousr online business transactions safely

2009-04-16T00:04:00.000-07:00

As much as the internet is becoming hard to control with a lot of credit card theft and banking details stolen, many companies are working hard to make it a safer place. There are now stronger internet security anti virus. anti phishing to protect you from being directed to illegal websites with will steal your information and money.
The amount of credit cards stolen has increased drastically in such an extent that they are being sold in underground markets at very low prices.

If you usually buy products online or you sell products online there is a safer way of reducing the amount of money stolen if that ever happen.

1) Using a debit card that is linked to your bank account will put the money you have in our account at risk. This is very common and many people includign my friends do it. i advice you to stop it if your doing the same as you will lose everything you have.

instead you should open a separate account that will only be used for online transactions if in case your card information was stolen and someone managed to access your account they would only be limited to the amount you have in that account.

2) avoid using your credit card all the time online as exposing it would increase the risks.

instead open a Paypal account. it is safe and very continent. it can be used for buying and selling online.

3) Get your self a pre-paid debit card this card can be reloaded on the go and is not linked to any of your bank accounts so making it safe and the amount you might lose if the information was stolen is limitted to the amount you topped up into it.
have a safe online experince:)

All about Pirated Anti-virus

2009-04-15T23:13:00.000-07:00

Are you using genuine anti-virus?
I wonder...?
There a lot of pirated anti-virus out there, they sell cheap and seem to be protecting your computer perfectly...
now here is what you don't know about pirated anti-virus . It protects your computer from all other viruses outer expect for one virus
yes that's right! The one virus that belongs to the person who created the pirated version of the anti virus your using. he secretly steals information from your computer, credit cards, banking information your Paypal information.,important documents i know it all sounds scary but that is the truth.
Thousands for pirated copies of anti virus are being sold and if you think you will be safe from attack think twice..

How ever there ways of getting an anti virus that is genuine at a cheap price or even free!

Try to consider buying several Keys with your friends . there are anti-virus pages that offer multiple keys at a lower price then you can share with your friends. kaparsky offers good anti- virus pargaes at a chaper price..
www.kaspersky.com

You can download a one month trial from. Well known anti- virus companies but if you cant handle the trouble of having to remove it ounce your time limit is over you can install some free anti virus such as www.avast.com

Always take good care of your system there a lot of bad guys out there:)

Earn money from your website!!

2009-04-15T20:56:00.000-07:00

Hi every one lately i have been busy with university work. But now i am back.
Now to back to business.
Have u ever thought to having a website and and make money from it???
now there a lot of ways in making money from your website.. some of them are legitimate true ways of making ample amount of cash while many of them are scams..
now here are just a few ways to make money online...
as you can see on my page there i have banners that contain advertisements on them. Yes for every viewer that visits my page will enable me to earn some cash sounds exciting?
sure it does!!
depending on you location; advertising companies such the ones on my page will pay you ..

on there had there is a website that will host our contents for free while at the same time pay you USD $5 for every person that subscribes to there web hosting you will earn this buy placing banners just like the ones i had to you about earlier to our website or blog.
and it would be send to you paypal account. sounds wonderful!
join and have fun!!! while earning :)

why should i buy a blu-ray?

2008-05-03T03:22:00.000-07:00

when using a blue ray disc you get to enjoy the high definition from while watching movies this is something that you cannot enjoy using the normal DVD.
you also get updates from the internet if u have connected your Blu-ray machine to the internet. Making it be up to date with the latest softwares n upgrades. this was not possible with the normal DVD.
Blu-ray as said earlier can accommodate large amounts of data making it suitable for people who have alot of data and want to store it in a single disc.
The price of a Blu-ray player.

the price of buying a blue ray player and Discs as drop and will still continue to reduce ever since the HD battle was won by blue ray.
you can also save money buy buying a sony playstation three since it come with a in built blue ray player. best of luck to all of you how are planning to buy a blue ray player.

wi-fi

2008-04-15T00:09:00.001-07:00

The ever growing demand for wireless network whether it be for home use or office use. Many people are starting to pull out the cables that are laying on their floors those that were creating a messy tangle of wires.

For this and many other reasons you should take our time to learn more about the wireless network Wi-fi

What is wi-fi?

Wi-fi is a name given to a popular wireless technology that is found in most modern electronics. It is used to carry/ transfer data from electronic devices that use the same technology. Unlike other forms of wireless technology e.g. Bluetooth and GSM networks. Wi-fi is mostly used to create a local area network where different devices such as; laptops, PDA’s , desktops, mobile phones and printers to name a few that are wi-fi compatible can connect to each other and also to the internet

How to set up a wireless network

Setting up a wi-fi network is basically simple all you need is to purchase a wi-fi router depending on what type of network you want to create home use or for office use. The devices that you are planning to uses also should support wi-fi. Most laptops nowadays come with a inbuilt wi-fi reception. For desk tops that do not have wi-fi you can purchase a wi-fi usb adapter or pc card.

By using the wi-fi router you will create a local area network in which all your computers are connected together (without any wires included) the computer that are connected through your wi-fi can access shard devices such as printers and scanners.

There different types of wireless routers some of them come with an inbuilt DSL modem for fast broadband internet connection. While others which are cheaper come as a single unit. You there for have to buy a modem to connect it to the wireless router.

To configure the wireless router settings is simple. The instructions on the manual is easy to follow and don’t forget to set a secure pass word to your network to as to not allow outsider using your network.