“Keep everything. Share anything” is the slogan for Google Drive another impressive service from the IT giant. Google drive allows users to store up to 5GB of their data online and share them with their friends and colleagues. Google drive is another way of going cloud. Your data are following you wither at home, office or school by a single click you can access your data. The Google drive is available for all operating systems, meaning PC and Mac, iPhone and iPad, android devices and so on.  Google Drive lets you do more than just store your files. Share files with exactly who you want and edit them together, from any device. Google Drive gives you instant access to Google Docs, a suite of editing tools that makes working together better—even when your teammates are miles away. You can get started with 5 GB of free space. Upgrade to 25 GB for less than $2.50 a month, and you can store practically everything for next to nothing.

Sometimes I wish my girlfriend could have Android phone with Google map on it so that I would be able to trace her location whenever I want, am just joking actually. But yah that is what Google latitude can do for you provided that you and your friend in your contact list are using Google latitude then you can both track each other’s location using Google maps available in your mobile phones. As long as the request for pairing you send to your friend comes with positive answer then you are ready to track your friend using your phone. Just follow these few steps:

First, browse to google.com/latitude and log in to your Google Account. Your Google Account is the same login that you use in Google services like Gmail and Blogger.

Second, click the "Add Friends" link on the left side. Click on the drop-down menu at the top of the dialog box and choose "All Contacts." Scroll through the list until you find the contact information for the person whose phone you want to track. If there is a blue icon next to the name, that person is already using Google Latitude. Click the "Add" link to add that friend. The tracking will not begin until that person accepts your request.

Lastly, click the "Friends" tab on the Google Latitude page; you'll see a Google Map on the right. To the left of the map is a list of your Latitude friends. Click on the name of your friend in the list to see where that person's cell phone is on the Google Map. You can also see how long it has been since the location was last updated.

Using the Windows Event Viewer someone can be able to prove if someone has logged in the system or not during his absence. The windows event viewer can simply be accessed by searching the term "event viewer" on the start up search box in the Windows 7 start up menu.

Event Viewer logs a ton of different things that your computer's recently done. In order to find out when it last time it was active just follow the following procedures:

•   Go to the Start menu and type "Event Viewer" in the search box. Hit Enter when its option comes up in   the menu.
•    Double click on Windows Logs in the left sidebar, then click on System.
•    Right click on System and choose Filter Current Log.
•    In the window that pops up, look for the Event Sources drop down. Choose Power-Troubleshooter from this drop-down and hit OK.
•    Look at the middle pane of the Event Viewer window. At the top, you should see all the applicable recent events, in descending order of time. Anticipate the time you suspect your computer was used, and see if there are any events. If there are, you can click on them to see more details, like what woke up your computer, in the bottom middle pane.

Are you sick and tired of your admin just like me? He is blocking almost everything during office hours you can’t even view your own personal mail address or read some news. Don’t worry you just have to do some few simple configurations with your browser using the tool Ultra Surf. Ultra surf will help you to have your browsing freedom back, provide you with security and privacy. The security is high due to side by side encryption. Protect your privacy online with anonymous surfing and browsing. Ultrasurf hides your IP address and clears browsing history and cookies. When using UltraSurf, the software is set to work on "Auto-Detect Proxy" mode by default; however, if you want to use UltraSurf in "Manual Proxy Setting" mode to add your preferred proxy, you can swiftly set up a proxy in UltraSurf by editing the web browser's proxy settings. For video tutorial ultrasulf.us 

        Set a Proxy in UltraSurf With Internet Explorer

Start Internet Explorer, click the "Tools" menu and click on "Internet Options."

Then, Click on the "Connections" tab and click on the "LAN settings" tab at the bottom of the window.

Lastly, Click on the text box displayed below the heading that reads "Proxy server," next to "Use a proxy server for your LAN." Type "127.0.0.1", or the proxy the requires address, in the text box located next to "Address" and type "9666" in the text field next to "Port." Click the "OK" tab and click "OK" again to close the window and save the changes.

        Set a Proxy in UltraSurf with Firefox browser

Start Firefox, click on the "Tools" menu and click on "Options."

Then, Click on the "Advanced" tab and click on the "Network" tab.

Then, Click on the "Settings" tab next to "Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet." Click on the check box next to "Manual proxy configuration."

Lastly, Type "127.0.0.1", or the proxy you want to use, in the text field located next to "HTTP proxy" and then type "9666" in the text box next to "Port."

When you compare the number of mobile internet users and PC internet users in a country like Tanzania you are so likely to realize going mobile is inevitable for a country like this and other African countries.

When you compare the number of mobile internet users and PC internet users in a country like Tanzania you are so likely to realize going mobile is inevitable for a country like this and other African countries.

The average phone users in Africa is hundreds times of PC users. The information supplied in a mobile phone device can reach hundreds recipient as the same information reach a single PC user.IT giants such as Google and others have tried their level best to introduce the idea to the African IT firms although the technic is appearing to be reluctant but it has played a big role in making a large group of society to attain information on time. The aim is to provide people with the knowledge and details of different projects such as health project and agriculture project through the use of technology. Some applications have been developed which allow farmers to get information and details about matters affecting they are farming activities. (Uganda refugees mobile project)

Going mobile is essential especially for multimedia and news companies people needs to get information wherever they are in the required time. Creating a mobile version of your website or Blog is essential since people they can easily be able to access your website information through their handheld devices. We expect newspaper companies to go mobile so that people they can read their favorites newspaper online through their hand held devices. (look at this project by times of India newspaper)

Advertisement done in mobile phones can reach more number of people than any kind of advertisement. Being able to have a mobile website which can easily be accessed with large number of people it means you will have successful business.

The interactivity the user has with the mobile is far different with the interactivity with is desktop, laptop or palmtop computers. An average African would rather buy an expensive phone and use it to access internet instead of buying a simple costless PC for two reasons first is portability and second is the lack of knowledge to use and access Internet PC.

An average phone user will automatically know two things picking up a phone call and dealing with an SMS either is to read or sending the SMS. The information can be sent inform of SMS alerting people about matters affecting their day to day activities wither its AIDS awareness campaign or human right activities all these can be done using mobile phones and handheld devices.For creating mobile applications and website you can contact us at greentech360@gmail.com

Awareness of the people about using Swahili in Technology:
Most of the people are not aware that the services that they are getting online they can get them in their local language, Swahili. Some of them they are not even aware of the Google domain extension of .tz which will led you to use the Swahili version of Google products. Some people have to translate their queries in English before searching them in Google believing they can not get the results they want if they search in Swahili which is totally wrong.

Most of the techies they don't understand the terms used in Google Swahili version:
Upon our discussion during the session most of the people were laughing or exclaimed of some terms which are used with the chrome browser reflecting that they have never used the terms in their life before. Most of them insisting on simplifying the language and start tom use the language which is used in their daily activities and usual interaction with each other.

Swahili terms tend to have more than one meaning which complicates the process:
Most of the time during translation the meaning of the terms tend to differ with the actual meaning of the terms simply because the translate tend to give the other meaning of the term rather than the expected meaning. The advice given by the attendees of the session was Google must come up with more intelligent translator which will anticipate the usage of the terms for collect situations and purpose.

Its essential to have more meetings and gatherings to discuss the use of Swahili in technology


to be continue...............

The Google Swahili event is on, at the Kinu innovation Hub. The event is marvelous everyone is active and people are contributing to the topics which are being discussed. We have just finished discussing the Google Search Products . We were discussing the home page of the Google search engine and came up with new terms to be used for example instead of using "i'm feeling lucky" as "leo ni siku yangu" we suggested "nahisi nina bahati" to be the new terminology to be used by the users of Google Search Swahili version. Most of the people have been suggesting more user friendly language to be used since most of the Swahili terms which are used they are too official for most of the users to understand.
           We are with a googlers from Kenya Salome she is hosting the event nicely, everyone is happy and now we are moving to the short break for lunch.

It is a normal thing when you want to loge in to your accounts in some browsers you will be asked if you want the browser or the website to remember your password this is the time you stop selecting yes for your own good. The little utility Asterisk Logger does for the whole of Windows what MessenPass does for messenger
programs. It displays the passwords that you’ve entered in Outlook, in your FTTP client or in any other login-protected tool. Instead of asterisks, you will be able to see the obfuscated characters.
But even here we repeat the warning: Use this tool only for your own passwords or else it is a criminal offense. Incidentally, the program AsterWin IE displays passwords that  you’ve entered in the Internet Explorer.

Google will be hosting a user feedback workshop for Swahili enthusiasts on Saturday, 7th July:   The aim of this workshop is to enable users experience the localized products in Swahili as well as contribute to the terminology and be a part of improving the user experience for online Swahili users. The event will took place at KiNU inovation hub starting from 11:00 am to 4:00 p.m.

Google will be hosting a user feedback workshop for Swahili enthusiasts on Saturday, 7th July:   The aim of this workshop is to enable users experience the localized products in Swahili as well as contribute to the terminology and be a part of improving the user experience for online Swahili users. The event will took place at KiNU inovation hub starting from 11:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Make sure you have registered yourself for the event and be in time. Please let's get involved in promoting Swahili to be used in technology.
  

The event will took place at KiNU  innovation hub starting from 11:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 7th July:  

Prof. Makame Mbarawa

The ministry of communication signed the memorandum of understanding with IBM corporation on Wednesday the decision which will make them to work together to help the government to achieve its plan of making the performance of the Port of Dar es Salaam more efficiency. The government wants Dar es Salaam port to be a cornerstone of regional commercial infrastructure and source of revenue. “For years the government has been investing in improving the infrastructure at the port of Dar es Salaam with little investment in the Information and Communication technology, with this MoU we expect more technological development at Dar Port,” said the Minister for communication, science and technology Prof. Makame Mbarawa. Although the minister did not actually speak in which manner the technology will be helping to enhance the port activities and the implementation of the project is not yet clear but it is a good sign. Currently the Dar es Salaam port uses Cargo system management software to manage shipping and marine operations.  This move will enhance Tanzania’s effort to compete in the technology industry in East Africa.