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If you've been unable to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all this while, here's how to do it with ease. Download Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Videos Copy the link or URL of the video from your favourite video source such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. Go to  OnlineVideoConverter Paste the link in the textbox as shown below. Select your desired video format. If you're unsure what to select, choose .mp4 as it works great across different devices. You can select .mp3 if you want to convert the video to audio. Click on Start to download the video. The online tool will process your video in a few seconds. Click on Download to download the video. You can use this service to download videos from many more sites including vimeo.com, youku.com, funnyordie.com, dailymotion.com, vk.com etc. An Alternative for Facebook Fbdown.net is a dedicated site for downloading Facebook videos. It supports downloading priva...

In circulation these days are several "make money online" schemes and I keep wondering if these schemes are genuine or fraudulent. I'll review one of these schemes called "Boostpal.co.uk" gaining popularity in Kenya and Ghana. This post is not going to be conclusive as to whether Boostpal is genuine or not. I'm only going point out my findings having interacted with the website in a few days. What is boostpal? "Boostpal Is a Pay Per Impression site. Hence advertisers will pay based on the number of impressions they get on their ads. And you are paid based on the number of video impressions you make per day". Says their website. Basically, what boostpal promises is that you're paid for each video you watch and the videos are from advertisers who pay for their ads. As a beginner, you can only watch two videos per day and you have 13 days to upgrade to any paid account. If you fail to upgrade within this 13 day period,  your account will ...

A screenshot showing a fraction of spams in my inbox on a Sunday morning If you get irritated especially on Sundays by unsolicited SMS from loan companies or any other company or individuals, there's good news for you if you're an MTN Ghana customer. You'll find this post very useful if your inbox looks similar to the one shown above.   If you've heard of 1309 shortcode, tried it but still receive those annoying messages, you probably didn't do it well. I've realized that a lot of people just send BLOCK E-loans to 1309 expecting to block SMS from all loan related contacts. Read on to get a good understanding of how this service works and how to correctly block any contact from reaching you via SMS. MTN Ghana has rolled out a service to block unsolicited SMS from any shortcode, phone number or alphanumeric sender_id called DO NOT DISTURB . It is very easy to use this service and more importantly, it is FREE of charge. This service is not only for...

The first time I heard of the word Scrum was in a Software Engineering lecture mentioned as one of the agile methodologies of developing software. A few months later, I visited DreamOval Ltd (one of the leading software development companies in Ghana) on an educational trip and Scrum was mentioned as their way of performing work when I asked about the methodology they use. I haven’t really read about Scrum until July 2016 when I happen to intern at DreamOval as a software developer. The product owner (will be explained later) of Enterprise Nurs (one of DreamOval’s products widely used by enterprises especially banks to drive customer stickiness) gifted us an audiobook titled “Scrum – The Art of Doing Twice the work in Half the Time” by Jeff Sutherland . For me, it is imperative to share my thoughts on this awesome way of doing work after experiencing the Scrum way of working at DreamOval and listening to the audiobook. What then is Scrum?

A review of ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson The computer and its allied devices such as mobile phones, tablets and wearable devices have become indispensable parts of our lives. We exchange information in real time that would have been achieved in weeks or even months using the traditional postal services. Businesses have expanded and economies grown due to the advent of computers. The Internet and its applications such as E-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and Instagram to name a few have become valuable tools for purposes ranging from networking to marketing. If you have ever wondered how these wonderful and highly useful devices and applications have come about, ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson is a must read for you. Collaboration In this book that seems to be a biography of hackers, geniuses, geeks and inventors, Walter Isaacson emphasized how innovation is characterized by collaboration. In “The Innovators,” Isaacson provides a narrative of the inventors, engineer...