The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

MTN Nigeria Hourly Plan Codes Splendid?

Users often exceed their data limits before its expiry date even without downloading any file - Its just annoying when you subscribe for a 250MB plan at N1300 and its finished within 1 week. The New MTN SIMPLE SURF plan seems to be a solution to the data limit problems. This is not really a first as Starcoms and others have similar hourly plans but their service coverage is very … [Read more...]

Street View to land on Google Maps’ mobile website

It looks as though Google plans to add Street View to its mobile browser-based version of Google Maps. The official announcement won't be made until tomorrow, but long-time WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg casually dropped word of the addition in this this piece about the latest Google Maps for Android. This confirms last month's rumors that Street View would be landing on mobile browsers … [Read more...]

Samsung Android hole also leaves SIM cards vulnerable

 A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a research assistant in the Telecommunications Security department at the Technical University of Berlin, recently demonstrated the remote data wiping … [Read more...]

Nokia announces Asha 308 and 309 budget touchscreen phones ‘video & image’

Nokia has announced two new budget phones called the Asha 308 and the Asha 309, their cheapest with a capacitive touchscreen. Both are 2G-enabled handsets with a 3.0-inch, WQVGA capacitive touchscreen display, 2 megapixel camera, multiple homescreens, stereo loudspeaker, FM radio and have up to 32GB microSD card support. The phones come with the usual social networking applications, YouTube as … [Read more...]

6 MICROSOFT WORD SHORTCUTS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW

1. Double Click And Drag :- like most people, when you want to move a section of text from one place to another, you use Control X to cut and Control V to paste. That's fine, It works. But there's a faster way: Just Highlight the Text or Image you want to move, then simply drag what you've highlighted to where you want it to land. 2. Double Underline You know you can affect text by hitting … [Read more...]

Google Driverless Cars: Now Street-Legal in California

 Take it from a California resident: you see a lot of crazy things in this state. And it’s about to get a lot crazier, thanks to Jerry Brown and Google. Governor Brown came to the Googleplex in Mountain View Tuesday afternoon to sign SB 1298, a bill that “creates a legal framework and safety standards for autonomous vehicles on state roads and highways.” To put that more plainly, Google — … [Read more...]

Best Fruits to Eat for Weight Loss

Are you trying to find the best fruits to eat for weight loss? It's amazing when you think about it, but eating fruits is really an essential part of any weight loss plan. Fruit will clean out your system, give you nourishment, and help you to look and feel younger all at the same time. Not only does it have all of these benefits, but fruit just plain tastes good. Today you will learn the best … [Read more...]

15% Upgraded to iOS 6 in First 24 Hours

 About 15% of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices are already running Apple iOS 6, just 24 hours after the company launched its sixth-generation mobile software platform, new data suggests. According to Chitika Insights, more people updated to iOS 6 in the first 24 hours than other software upgrades in the past. In fact, it took iOS 5 five days to reach 20% of devices. To determine these … [Read more...]