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Phone applications that you really have to have

Posted by george on June 15, 2011 at 8:38 AM Comments comments (0)


Email app: this app enables you configure any account with yahoo/ whatever server and when the app is online you can get email alerts just like sms

Documents To Go: this is for reading your documents: Word, PDF, Powerpoint slides, Excel Sheets. With Word documents, it formats them for mobile viewing

OpenOffice: Same as Documents-to-Go above

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What to look for when choosing an accounting application or software

Posted by george on May 19, 2011 at 7:07 AM Comments comments (0)


Long time ago you could account with a book, a pen and your fingers, it was so easy there was no VAT to pay, no elaborate reports (cash-in,cash-out) but then came vat, invoicing, reports, dividends, law suits,international trade etc

It was not only a herculean tasks but an impossible tasks to be undertaken without the necessary tools that is compute...

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Why the safaricom google phone IDEOS U8150 is not all that

Posted by george on May 4, 2011 at 2:04 AM Comments comments (0)


Poor Camera

Despite having a 3mega-pixcels camera the Google phone is way bellow the standard for quality photography when compared to other phones.

Restrictive to service provider

The safaricom Google phone is only to be used with a safaricom sim card…this limits one freedom of choice as regards to which service provider to engage

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The Ultimate phone etiquette

Posted by george on April 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM Comments comments (0)


Michael Joseph the former CEO of safaricom Kenya said that Kenyans have peculiar calling habits. It is true that they are peculiar but this does not just end with calling habits but phone habits. Far from the timing and periods of calls phone habits are about how they interact with this essential commodity, the phone.  There are many peculiar ways that Kenyan interact with...

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What you should look for when choosing your professional e-mail services provider

Posted by george on April 7, 2011 at 6:37 AM Comments comments (0)


A professional e-mail system is a service offered by specialized email provider that is based on ones domain name…for example if your company is donndo and your domain dame is donndo.com the a professional e-mail system could be like sales@donndo.com

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Why you should make a brick house rather than a stone house in Kenya

Posted by george on March 24, 2011 at 3:53 AM Comments comments (5)


Cheap

unlike stones that have to be mined and transported bricks can be made right where the building will be constructed with the same soil that will be dug up during excavation….when this soil is dug up it is then sieved, watered and kneaded into clay….the clay can be put into brick shapers then the molded brick dried for later baking in a hom...

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Why every Kenyan company needs a website

Posted by george on March 24, 2011 at 2:32 AM Comments comments (0)


Branding

By having a website companies are able to highlight the qualities of their brand by emphasizing the various aspects that are particular to it….this enable them to have an avenue through which they can increase the brand awareness hence creating brand loyalty among customers

Interaction with customers

Websites provid...

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Why Kenyans are increasingly buying probox and vitz cars

Posted by george on March 23, 2011 at 6:48 AM Comments comments (2)


Cheap at cost

Unlike other saloon cars this two cars are way cheaper at cost meaning that you can get one much easier

Readily available spare parts

Being off the Toyota brand this models spares are more readily available than other car brands. this means that they are much cheaper

Fuel efficiency

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How to avoid cyber fraud in Kenya

Posted by george on January 24, 2011 at 4:15 AM Comments comments (0)

cyber fraud is one of the newest form of crime that Kenya,from hacking of government and bank websites to ATM programming to credit card cleaning

the biggest problem is that we as Kenyans are not able toward off this menace and continue to loose money...to enable you be able to minimize your exposure to risk here are some tips

 

Don’t disclose details to pop-up web applications

Web applications have evolved from simple html coding to complex php prog...

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How to avoid cyber fraud in Kenya

Posted by george on January 24, 2011 at 4:15 AM Comments comments (0)

cyber fraud is one of the newest form of crime that Kenya,from hacking of government and bank websites to ATM programming to credit card cleaning

the biggest problem is that we as Kenyans are not able toward off this menace and continue to loose money...to enable you be able to minimize your exposure to risk here are some tips

 

Don’t disclose details to pop-up web applications

Web applications have evolved from simple html coding to complex php prog...

Read Full Post »