Titbits On Technology, Internet And The Web In Ghana

Mobile money is a novel USSD based money transfer system built actively used in various kinds of cash transactions especially in Africa. The growth and success has been phenomenal. Many services including payments, transfers, banking, billing, point of sale etc have been built on the mobile money framework. However, with this success comes exploitation. There are reports of mobile money fraud and how people actively seek to game the mobile money system. Below is a compilation of some of the common techniques and how to effectively avoid becoming a victim of it. 1. You hand your phone to the agent (never do that), he enters more than you have requested to withdraw but only hands you what you requested and keeps the rest. 2. You receive a fake message about a deposit showing you a fake balance (message not from mtn but a normal phone number). A call follows that a wrong deposit has been made. You send the caller your money (not realizing the text message with your balance infor...

This article is just a quick suggestion to fix a problem with an android phone where the wi-fi hotspot goes off by itself a few seconds after turning it on. This technique is tested and verified though I cannot guarantee it will work for every situation. It appears an app babel fonts interferes with the ability of the mobile hotspot to stay on. What we did was: Go to settings , apps (applications manager) Locate Babel fonts and click on it Click on the option to uninstall updates (uninstall it) Restart your phone Optionally you may just disable it. Other things we tried that did not work included changing hotspot power settings under battery in the phone settings Resetting the phone only works temporarily as the babel font updates are reinstalled when you connect to wifi. The best bet I believe is to disable / uninstall babel font. Let me know in the comments if it worked. Here is a link to an opinion about babel fonts Cheers

People ask me, " how do I advertise my business online" when many payment gateway providers won't accept or process credit / debit cards issued in Ghana (e.g. visa, mastercard etc) or transactions originating from Ghana? The simple answer is to say DigiGhana  provides online advertisement services 😊. However I have decided to share with you 5 ways you can get this done easily. 1. Contact a Webhost or Multimedia Service Provider (pay with cash or mobile money) If you are not information technology savvy definitely consulting a webhosting company or a media advertising company is the easier option. Though this option does not provide you a finer look into the actual details of your advertisement such as keywords, budget management and bids, it ensures that you skip the learning curve and jump straight to putting your money to work and getting value for your money. An online media company such as DigiGhana  can assist. 2. Advertise With Credit/Debit Card The se...

Today I encountered a rather frustrating incident with a Joomla 3.6.5 installation I was migrating. After successfully moving files and importing the database and configuring the site (configuration.php), I could not login to the Administrator which kept refreshing. All searches pointed to cache files, session tables and .htaccess file as well as checking configuration parameters. I didn't however find any mention of cookie path and cookie domain public $cookie_domain = ''; public $cookie_path = ''; It happened that I had modified them on my local server and these modifications were preventing the administrator logging in when I migrated the website. What made the difference was to clear whatever I had put in the $cookie_path and $cookie_domain in configuration.php and resaving the file. In configuration.php Change public $cookie_domain = 'xxxxxxxxx'; to public $cookie_domain = ''; Change public $cookie_path = 'xxxxx'; t...

In mid-2016 google changed their Maps APIs authentication and usage limits. Google announced some changes to the Google Maps APIs authentication and usage limits: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/building-for-scale-updates-to-google.html Usage of the Google Maps APIs now requires a key. If you are using the Google Maps API on localhost or your domain was not active prior to June 22nd, 2016, it will require a key going forward. To fix this problem, please see the Google Maps APIs documentation to get a key and add it to your application: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key The result of this was that joomla modules for maps began to show an error message. The solution for fixing this in the colourful Responsive color google map v1.1.0 is to include an API key as follows. Head here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key and click on get key. Generate an API key and save it somewhere...

To buy a domain name fast in Ghana you will need to; OPTION 1: REGISTER THE DOMAIN NAME BY SENDING US THE DETAILS Text the domain name to any of the digighana mobile numbers  MTN 0244534008 AIRTEL/TiGo (AT) 0265330837 We will check the availability of the name for registration e.g. kofi.com and get back to you The cost of the domain name will also be provided in the text message. If the domain is said to be available, Text the domain name, your email and phone number to the above mobile numbers and make payment via MTN mobile money, Airtel Money or Tigo Cash (vodafone coming soon) to the following numbers. MTN 0244534008 AIRTEL/TiGo (AT) 0265330837 OPTION 2: REGISTER THE DOMAIN NAME BY YOURSELF Visit digighana.com Click on Register Domain Name Search for your prefered domain name e.g. kofi.com If it is available, click on SELECT to add it to your purchases (cart) Click on CHECKOUT to process your order Add a webhosting package if you need on...

If You have created an admin user for your joomla website but try to login at the backend and receive the error: Warning You do not have access to the Administrator section of this site. If you can access your mysql database, using a management tool such as phpmyadmin, go to the table xxx_ _users   (where xxx is your prefix) and identify the ID of the user you want to login with. Now go to xxx _user_usergroup_map      . change the usergroup.id of the user you see to login with to 8 or identify an admin group number and use that. The reason the problem occurred is that you may not have assigned the user as an administrator.