Enlaitened Tech

 What is Online Safety?  As more people get inducted into the world wide web daily, their safety becomes important.  Online safety refers to the practices and policies that reduces the physical, and psychological hurt that a person may face on the internet.  It is a virtual world and just like the real world it is replete with the same or even more problems.  In the real physical world, a person may become a victim of bullying, rape, or robbery. One may think such could never happen in the digital world, but the sad truth is that it occurs every time. People are bullied on the internet. Sex crimes and blackmail have become frequent. Digital identities and properties are stolen. And with the rise of electronic finance, it becomes a hunting ground for hackers with evil intent to plunder the honest wealth of others.  The internet is a vast world, and while a good thing, it introduces a great risk to its users.  Digital safety and security is therefore ...

Introduction  An email account is a digital mail box.  It is essentially an electronic mail (e-mail). Your email is your digital identifier that you can use to send and receive electronic messages. An email account usually consists of : A username or email address such as my.email@example.com Password: This is a secret word combination used to authenticate your account and grant you access to it.  Email inbox: This is where all your received emails are stored and accessed from.  Email Client or web interface: An application that enables you to compose, send, receive and manage your emails. Email accounts have become important in our digital age as we use it for various things such as: Communication with family and friends Newsletters and subscriptions  Online shopping and digital transactions I am sure you must have come across a website asking for your email address to enable you receive notifications, or you need to sign up for something online and one of the ...

   Our phones help us connect to the world. Especially in this digital age where most people are glued to their screens. And if you are like me, you probably operate your phone for several hours at a stretch.  It is important then, that our device is up to speed and gives us a smooth doorway into the digital world. How frustrating it could be sometimes when this doorway seems clogged up and our connections slow. You want to check out that new video, and then your phone crashes. Bummer! Or you want to browse your favourite website but your device hangs, huh! Probably feel like smashing the phone or screaming at it "come on! " If your phone seems slow, here are eight ways to help speed it up.    1. Restart your phone:  Yes!  Your phone is a digital device and it could slow down over time, you probably have several apps running in the background, consuming memory and battery power, making your phone seem like its on a highway with clogged up traffic. A si...