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Career › Re: 2019 Goal: How Do I Become Skilled In Public Speaking? by tovick(m): 5:57pm On Jan 04, 2019

Volunteer to teach in a primary or secondary school, or school awareness campaign

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: 5 Reasons Nigerians Should Stop Watching The English Premier League by tovick(m): 3:41pm On Feb 10, 2017

I have been to Enugu stadium several times and I can say its safe and the match experience is memorable. You'll also get to experience behind the scene.

Phones › Re: Whatsapp Continues Blackberry Support, Windows Phone 7.x App Cut by tovick(op): 4:32pm On Dec 07, 2016

Most people are already selling their BlackBerry device

Phones › Whatsapp Continues Blackberry Support, Windows Phone 7.x App Cut by tovick(op): 7:05am On Dec 07, 2016

WhatsApp has decided to extend support for BlackBerry devices and older Nokia Symbian devices after originally saying it would leave the app behind at the end of this year. However, Windows Phone 7.x support closing at the end of this month.
By Luke Jones -
December 5, 2016 3:56 pm CET

Windows 10 Mobile users could sympathize with BlackBerry users when WhatsApp ended support for the platform. Sure, WhatsApp is going strong on Windows, Microsoft’s platform has had its share of major developers kill support. However, WhatsApp has now said that it will extend support for BlackBerry and Nokia devices.
The company had originally announced that BlackBerry devices and Nokia devices will be cut off by the end of this year. Because of this change, WhatsApp has extended support. Now the company says the app will remain supported until June 30, 2017. The devices getting an extended run are BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 smartphones.
“While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” the company said at the time.
“This was a tough decision for us to make, but the right one in order to give people better ways to keep in touch with friends, family, and loved ones using WhatsApp. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone before the end of 2016 to continue using WhatsApp.”
Why the company decided to change its mind is unclear. There is no such luck for a rage of other aging platforms, like Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.x. Other platform builds getting cut are Android 2.1 Eclair/2.2 Froyo, as well as the iPhone 3GS/iOS 6. All of these platforms will see support ended at the end of this month.
WhatsApp Windows 10 Support
We have mentioned before that WhatsApp has shown more interest in Windows 10 than other major developers. The app has been kept up to date next to other platforms and scored features like video calling early.
Just recently, Build 2.16.300 was introduced with two-step verification. Video calling allows face-to-face chats to any other users around the world. The company pointed out that for this feature users will need Windows Phone 8.1 of newer.

Source: http://winbuzzer.com/2016/12/05/whatsapp-continues-blackberry-support-windows-phone-7-x-app-cut-xcxwbn/?utm_content=bufferf3569&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

NYSC › Re: NYSC 2016 Batch A Corp Members House by tovick(m): 10:01am On Jun 04, 2016

National Youth Service Corps - NYSC
2016 BATCH 'A' (STREAM II) ORIENTATION COURSE COMMENCES SOON
The NYSC Management wishes to inform prospective Corps members that, based on the assurance received from the Federal Government regarding release of funds, the 2016 Batch 'A' (Stream II) Orientation course will commence soon.
Prospective Corps members are, therefore, requested to watch out for specific date for commencement of the exercise, which will be announced as soon as all necessary logistics are put in place.
Management empathizes with the affected prospective Corps members, and appeals for continued patience even as all efforts on the matter are fast yielding results.
Signed:
Management

Phones › Re: Innjoo Halo Plus Phones With Discounts by tovick(m): 2:09pm On Jun 03, 2016

How much?

Phones › Re: All You Need To Know About Yezz Andy 5T: Review, Specs & Price by tovick(m): 2:24pm On Jun 02, 2016

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N13k for LTE version 1gbram/8gbrom reply here if you need it.

I'm interested. Pls call me on 08022956576

Celebrities › Re: Today Is Queen Elizabeth 90th Birthday, Celebrate Her Majesty by tovick(op): 8:18am On Apr 21, 2016

tovick:
Send your shout out to the queen of England.

"God save the queen"

The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren that was taken in the Green Drawing Room, part of the Castle's semi-State apartments. The children are, from bottom left:
Mia Tindall (holding The Queen's handbag), the two year old daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall;
James, Viscount Severn (aged cool

and Lady Louise (12), the children of The Earl and Countess of Wessex and the youngest of The Queen's eight grandchildren;
Savannah (5) and Isla Phillips (3), daughters of The Queen's eldest grandson Peter Phillips
and his wife Autumn;
Prince George (2) and, in The Queen's arms and in the tradition of Royal portraiture, the youngest great-grandchild, Princess Charlotte (11months), children of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Celebrities › Today Is Queen Elizabeth 90th Birthday, Celebrate Her Majesty by tovick(op): 8:15am On Apr 21, 2016

Send your shout out to the queen of England.

"God save the queen"

Phones › Re: You Can Now Use Cortana On Your Android And IOS Phones by tovick(m): 7:31am On Dec 11, 2015

I downloaded it yesterday currently running on my android tab.

Download it from apkmirror.com

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Phones › Re: Windows Mobile Naija Forum by tovick(m): 7:42am On Dec 10, 2015

I just got my first Lumia phone. Waiting for Windows 10 Mobile on December 14 to upgrade.

Phones › Re: How Do I Use My FREE MB On Paykobo.com by tovick(op): 2:48pm On Dec 07, 2015

mrjark:
join me on telegram so i can show you

Which one is telegram again huh

Romance › Re: How To Bring Out The Best In Your Woman by tovick(op): 12:12pm On Dec 07, 2015

Incorruptible:
I know this since I was born. What I want to hear is how women can make men great

Bring out the best in her and you'll see you're much better

Romance › Re: How To Bring Out The Best In Your Woman by tovick(op): 12:12pm On Dec 07, 2015

Incorruptible:
I know this since I was born. What I want to hear is how women can make men great

Bring out the best in her and you'll see you're much better

Romance › Re: 10 Reasons To Date A Girl Who Runs by tovick(op): 12:08pm On Dec 07, 2015

Don't miss out

Phones › Re: How Do I Use My FREE MB On Paykobo.com by tovick(op): 12:06pm On Dec 07, 2015

I'm still waiting

NYSC › Re: NYSC 2015 Batch B House by tovick(m): 7:08am On Dec 07, 2015

Marcelinho:
Please do anyone have idea if immigration take Corp members?

Yea they do

Politics › Re: APC Factionalized In Kaduna, As New APC Emerges by tovick(op): 7:05am On Dec 07, 2015

MKO4ever:
Please what does this mean?
The party name that was duly registered and recognized is APC, are they gonna change the name to True-APC or they are registering a new political party? There are clear procedures for all these things.

Just like the new-PDP back then

Politics › APC Factionalized In Kaduna, As New APC Emerges by tovick(op): 5:38am On Dec 07, 2015

Six months after taking power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been factionalised into two camps in Kaduna State.

The new APC group which called itself “True APC” has the following as members: retired permanent secretary, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, former ANPP chairman, Alhaji Kabir Umar, former education commissioner, Mr. Tom Mataimaki Maiyashi, Alhaji Lawal Maiturare, Nasiru Ahmed; special adviser on strategy to Senator Shehu Sani and Murtala Abubakar who is the publicity secretary.

The group accused the state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, of hijacking party apparatus and derailing from the idea of true change that millions of Kaduna people yearn and voted for.

But in a reaction, officials of the APC passed a vote of confidence on Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s policies.

APC state acting publicity secretary, Salisu Wusono, said all el-Rufai’s policies are in line with the ruling party’s manifestos and agenda, urging members to remain loyal.

Wusono who was reacting to a media briefing by the group, ‘True All Progressives Congress’ advised some of its members to stop being deceived by opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to distract the governor from his good works.

Wusono said: “APC as a party has a manifesto and also has a constitution and we are working in line with the constitution of our party. We have only one APC in Kaduna State. The party in Kaduna has leadership and structure”.

“We are running the affairs of the party according to the manifesto, constituion and ideology of APC. It’s laughable if somebody in Kaduna State said APC is not functioning because the party has a governor in Kaduna, 90 per cent of members in the state and national assemblies; so anybody who comes out to say APC in the state is in disarray is a joker”.

The new APC had in a PressConference in Kaduna said Givernor El-Rufai running an “anti people policies of Governor Nasir Ahmad El-rufai which have continued to produce misery and pauperization”.

Alhaji Murtala Abubakar who is the Publicity Secretary of the new APC said “ members of “True –APC” are responsible people who successfully worked hard to remove the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and put our party in power, it is with tremendous reluctance that we make public, issues and grievances that should have the responsibility to address them. The group said there is no available avenue left and they would fail millions of people who expect the party to operate with requisite standard of responsibility and accommodation if they continue to remain silent.

“The same millions of people who require the state government under our great party to show sensitivity to the feelings of our people in the discharge of its mandate need to know where we stand on the disturbing issue of the clear

contempt for decency being exhibited by the state administration” they added.

They said before going to public which they tried to resist, they made presentation to the national leadership of the party “to live up to its

responsibilities by bringing the party in Kaduna State back to life”. They said the media brief is meant to avert “what appears to be the hijack of our great party by the state governor with apparently the tacit support of the Party’s

National Headquarters.”

The “True-APC” said what is most alarming is the absence of functional and autonomous party structures in the state has created a long distance between the state government and the teeming party members” which it alleged is in

line with the desire of Governor El-rufai to rule without “any apposition or counsel from any quarter”.

“True APC” said to forestall millions of people of the state and beyond who desperately yearn for positive change and have sympathy for the party,
losing faith in it, the made the following demands; the national leadership of the party should set up a credible machinery to conduct elections into vacant offices in the party in Kaduna State. The National Leadership should resist any pressure to subvert the wishes of party members by ensuring that lackeys and

fake delegates are not used during the elections.

http://www.leadership.ng/news/481351/new-apc-emerges-kaduna

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Sports › PHOTO: See What Chelsea FC Scoreboard Is Saying Before Tonight's Match by tovick(op): 7:22pm On Nov 04, 2015

It may be 5 hours ahead of kick off at Stamford Bridge but the scoreboard ops aren't too confident it seems...
pic.twitter.com/9tOPIbQT6q

Now over an hour

Politics › Re: Senate Sits Without Our Ministerial List (nigeria) by tovick(m): 1:39pm On Sep 30, 2015

They said they'll read it later in the day

TV/Movies › Re: Fans Of “the Big Bang Theory” by tovick(m): 1:28pm On Sep 30, 2015

o2tvseries.com is now up to date with the new season.

Computers › Re: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: The Browser That Will Finally Kill IE by tovick(op): 2:25pm On Aug 24, 2015

Bawss1:
*facepalm*
We are really in a deep mess in this country.

You can install the updates from the new OS versions.

Computers › Re: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: The Browser That Will Finally Kill IE by tovick(op): 6:50am On Jul 29, 2015

Notes
In the same productivity vein, Edge has a web notes feature. Any page on the Internet can be taken into the web note view, where the user can use a bunch of tools for annotation.
This is supposed to be a simplification for the process that currently goes a little something like this: Grab the URL, copy random parts of the webpage, paste everything into a note-taking program, and annotate it there.
With Edge, the whole experience is in the browser. You can mark up the page and save it either to your Reading List or your favorites.
You can also send the marked-up page to OneNote, and other programs including email. Unfortunately, your annotations are all flattened. This means you can’t make any changes, as the marked-up page is really just an image.
Microsoft “settled on using a flattened image because it’s the most ubiquitously readable on the receiving side,” DeBruyne told us. That said, he did say a non-flattened version “could be possible in the future.”
So far, Windows 10 testers have been using this feature to annotate articles, for shopping purposes, and of course just to mess around with images of people on the web. Microsoft is hoping, however, that it will be end up being used in unforeseen ways too.

Computers › Re: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: The Browser That Will Finally Kill IE by tovick(op): 6:48am On Jul 29, 2015

Reading
Reading, and productivity in general, is one of the most common things people do in the browser. “We decided we’d build a set of tools directly into the experience that make reading, and research, and capturing your thoughts really great,” DeBruyne told us.
First off, Edge has a built-in Reading List feature. It’s a simple chronological list of articles the user has saved. Interestingly, Microsoft made a conscious decision, based on user feedback and telemetry it had collected, not to build this into favorites.
It turns out, there’s quite the backstory here.
“There’s such a huge range of use cases for favorites, some people don’t use favorites at all, some people treat it as a junk drawer and search against it, and some people seem to organize their entire lives with favorites,” DeBruyne explained. “It’s pretty incredible.”
“So we decided not to mess with that and add another concept on top of favorites,” he continued. “We did a pretty straightforward implementation of favorites in terms of having hierarchical folders, a favorites bar, and so on. Instead we decided to do a separate concept with the reading list.”
It’s a decent feature, and I’ve personally told myself that once Edge gets extensions, I’ll try to use Reading List more than I do Favorites. Yes, I’m one of those that just stars sites randomly, and never ever goes back to them.
Next up is the Reading View. The goal here is to offer a “very nice, clean, distraction-free reading experience,” DeBruyne told us.
That said, it is lightly customizable: You can change the background, font size, and so on. It works well enough on the desktop, but in DeBruyne’s words it “really sings on a tablet.”
The Reading View button doesn’t light up on sites that aren’t showing an article. If a site wants to prevent Reading View, it can: just add the following meta tag to ensure this always happens when an Edge user visits.
meta name=”IE_RM_OFF” content=”true”
If you’re getting a sense of déjà vu, you’re not alone. The modern browser in Windows 8 (read: not Internet Explorer for the desktop), offered basically the same thing.
In fact, unlike Cortana, these reading features aren’t unique to Edge. Edge’s reading list is just a list and Edge’s reading view is like all the rest: It just strips out all the junk, and voilà.

Computers › Re: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: The Browser That Will Finally Kill IE by tovick(op): 6:37am On Jul 29, 2015

You might be wondering, why didn’t Microsoft put Cortana in a different place in Edge; why the address bar? DeBruyne spelled it out for us: “Second to the start menu, it’s probably the most trafficked place in the Windows user interface.”
In Edge, Cortana can answer 20 different types of queries inline. These include:
Stocks (e.g., MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
Weather (just start typing the word and get the local weather)
Limited trivia (e.g., how big is the moon, how tall is the Eiffel tower, how old is Oprah Winfrey etc.)
Calculations (e.g., x + y)
Conversions (e.g., tbsp. to tsp)
Time in X country
Definition of X
Flight information
That’s a lot to cram into the address bar, which already does so much. You can expect, however, that this list will continue to grow.

Behind Edge’s address box, a relevance algorithm is constantly running and trying to match what you type to the above types of queries and possible search suggestions. On top of that, it’s searching against your local history and favorites and constantly reevaluating whether you’ve completed your query. This requires “a lot of tuning to make sure as you’re typing so you don’t get a lot of flickering,” DeBruyne explained.
Cortana assists is another way the personal assistant augments your browsing experience in Edge. Just click on her, and she’ll pop up with additional information about the site you’re looking at, which she gleans from
Bing’s entity graph . These extra details can include directions (clicking them will open the Windows 10 Maps app), an option to call the restaurant (via Skype of course), hours of operation, and so on.
To be clear, Microsoft is starting with only one type of site: restaurants. Still, Cortana assists supports 150,000 restaurants, including different physical presences for chains.
This site type was chosen because finding restaurants and booking a table “is a very common task on the web.” When asked what types of sites were next, DeBruyne listed shopping, social, research, and frankly concluded that “we’ve look at all of the common uses of the web.” Because the feature is server-driven, Microsoft can add new sites as well as new classes of sites without even updating Edge itself.
Lastly, there’s Ask Cortana. Whether you’re using a mouse and keyboard (select, right click, choose Ask Cortana) or a touchscreen (select, long press, choose Ask Cortana), on any page anywhere on the web, you can pick some text and get Cortana to tell you more.
For example, let’s say you select the word “Bush” on a webpage. If it’s preceded by Jeb, Cortana will know to give you more information about Jeb Bush, because she’s taking the context of the page into account. But there’s a relevance algorithm working behind this feature as well, so if the page only mentions Bush but never Jeb, Cortana will likely present you with information about Jeb anyway, because she knows that out of all the Bushes, he’s the most likely one you would be asking about right now.
Cortana’s answer is laid out differently based on what you’re asking about (people, stocks, bands, locations, etc.). Again, this information is all coming from Bing. In the worst case, Cortana will look up the definition of the word, and if that fails, she’ll just show you search results.

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