PLANET OF THE APPS

Smartphones are arguably the most popular electronic gadgets in use today. The smartest thing about them is indeed how they seem to combine so many functions in a single package. I mean, you can mine a camera, camcorder,radio and much of a computer from one piece of these cell phones.

To spice it them up,minisoftwares in the form of apps have come up to further enhance the functionability of this awesome devices.Today ,there seems to be an application designed for every other function.

Appstore for iPhones and Google play store for android are the major sources. You can easily launch into these resources and with a reliable internet connection, aload any item whatsoever.

With a good phone cover,the next cool thing one may require is a cool launcher to enable you interface the different parts of the phone. For those who enjoy a pc desktop like appearance on their phone.Windows 7 for Android,8.1 metro launcher and windows10 launcher are good to go.

The cellphone being now up and running ,sending or reception of calls will come first in priority.Automatic call recorder will help you record by default all the conversations between you and your desired callers.Caller loudspeaker is another app that helps you record and customize anything you would like to act as ringtone to your incoming calls.

The next big thing is likely the camera.Photos be they selfies,couchies or groundies are very popular with users nowadays.The quality of a photo will of course be dependent upon design megapixels and photography skills of the user.Nevertheless, their are many apps to help users edit and bring out artistic effects on their photos.

From experience pip camera and photogrid are up on the pile.Keep calm,straight outta ,name on jersey and coca cola customed cans also fall in here.There are also cool video editors to help you add effects on your videos.And to convert from one format to another e.g video to audio,mp4 to mp3.There are quite a number of apps,a popular one being video converter or mp3 converter.

For file transfer from device to device sender is a good tool.If you wish to transfer apps via Bluetooth get Bluetooth file transfer for that.

For social media it is common knowledge that facebook,twitter ,whats app and  instagram are the most used.Facebook lite is a lighter version of facebook that can be sought for its low data consumption.It is however similar to the bigger sized facebook app.

For instagram,boomerang will help in coming up with mini gifs to entertain your followers on the same.No crop for Instagram is another must have app that enables postage of photos defying the set size specifications.Then before you ask how to download those vines and cool pics on beautiful destinations.Easy downloader for instagram comes in just handy.Social video downloader does the same for facebook videos.Tubemate in the same context is not short of prowess.

To run any  two similar apps at the same time in one phone.Say,two what's app accounts each under a different number.Parallel space available for free in play store is the trick in the book.It is such a masterpiece that runs this function clever and with ease.

For privacy and confidentiality.App lock enables you to keep your apps under a pattern or password. Safepad can also be used in the same context.Mp3 cutter is another cool app to help churn out desired bits of a lengthy audio file.

For gamers the list is endless.Fifa,proevolution soccer,word games,pool games,crash saga,chess name them all are readily available as free downloads.Not forgetting several sniper games and motocross which you can all easily acess by using these keywords in the search area.

Actually it is only limited to a users specific needs. From better phone performance enhancements, pocket handbooks for first aiders,firemen et cetera.To inspiration,devotionals,biographies,religion name them all.

Anything from ebooks to any other material your career or school of thought irregardless is just a few clicks away.For Android users especially with a kitkat,lollipop or the recent marshmallow versions.You can come by virtually all of this materials and free.

They say beauty,cash and weapons are instruments of power. And I say so is a  smartphone ,and , with a  cool user.

There we go.

THE COMMON GROUND

For sometime now and the notion still embedded in many people's mind is that Africa is the 'dark'continent.Dark in terms of lack of visibility to where she is moving to  and also as a result of lack of the glory that comes with first world civilizations.

Genuinely speaking, Africa is well blessed.Talk of her rich fauna and flora. Her seasonless timeline,rich culture and valuable gems to mention but a few.Skeptics nevertheless continue to look down upon her on the basis of her very minimal contribution in pushing the  globe to where it is now in terms of technology and civilization.

Save for earlier day Egypt where a number of fascinating inventions and structures were erected.It is said Africa has not contributed much ,especially intellectually.

Most inventions,talk of medicine,architecture and now communications have zoomed in proportion with nothing substantial being associated with Africa. In a nutshell, the West has pace set everything for her especially on matters technology. Last time we heard of an electronic gadget,a transport vessel or even improvement to an existing gadget subscribed to Africa, and  that can compete undisputably on the global platform must have been aeons ago.

Then is it that this part of the world is actually intellectually dwarf.Without the capability to smear the world with innovations for problems solution? Where do the products of the famous Makerere,Daresalaam or Monash and Lagos universities go to after their stay in this institutions of excellence?Should we introduce the issue brain drain right here ?

In communications especially. We've seen the sprout of satellite, radar,computer and of late mobile phones technology.Sorry to say not even the selfie stick is coming from Africa.Luckily though, Ubuntu the great software is associated with S.A. How we need to see more of this.

On the contrary Africa showcases very well to the point of monopoly on matters sports.Talk of the track events for example. It is a known thing that the short races is an event of people of African origin or blacks really for lack of a better word.They dominate and are majority right from the heats to the award ceremony.And,in the long races the Kenyans,Ethiopians and the likes of Morroco hold their very ground.The greatest boxers that have come along again to compete to the highest levels will dominantly be of African origin for that matter.The countries they represent irrespective.The Sugar Ray's,The Ali's and today the Mayweather's and Antony Joshua's not forgetting the Cuba domadores.And this has been the trend ever since.Transversing generations.Ever asked yourself why?

This then begins to look like a win win situation. That Africa most 'third world ', might continue to rely on the west for reference on how good governments should be run,how prevalent disasters should be managed et cetera et cetera. The 'first world 'generaly plays trendsetter and torch bearer for the planet.

To vacation, after the busy schedules and long hours in research she still needs and is welcome to enjoy the big five,long coastal beaches and great culture hard to come by elsewhere.This is as Africa continues to refer,reflect,recollect and restructure going forward.She has strength and physical prowese right in her gene code.And now she ought to add smart. And so on and so forth.Thus we need and complement each other.

One alone will not tango.

THE CELEBRITY OF MANKIND

Many there are that have done exploits and earned the term celebrity. According to both the Oxford and the Macmillan dictionaries.A celebrity is defined as a famous person especially in the field of entertainment or sports.

A celebrity can also be termed as a person who has done something outstanding and remarkable to deserve the love,cherish,adoration and admiration of the masses.

From a Christian perspective.We see the person of Jesus Christ as a great celebrity by every possible standard.What Jesus Christ did and went through in his human nature in a bid to fullfill his mission for entire mankind well deserves being paid obeissance, worship,ovation and honour .

In the movie Passion of Christ, Jim Caviezel who later became a minister of the word.And the lead actor who played Jesus explains going through so much humiliation and anguish mimicking the eventualities in Jesus's life.

Not forgetting he was a very seasoned actor by the time he to took up the role.He talks about the cross at times being swayed by wind and being so very heavy on him.At times he would get to the point of hypothermia due to intense cold in the light clothings of a convict.

 Remaining up on the cross as others cast members did easier groundwork was no mean feat either he said.He resorted to being prayerful and asking God for strength during these "trying moments".His body full of fatigue. And,it is recorded,not once during filming he was struck by lightning flashes very visible by everyone in the cast.A non christian playing the role of guard in the film even requested to convert to Christianity.

 

Rightfully so,the actual suffering of Jesus was so much to be able to describe in words.In the garden of Gethsemane,where it all started.Full of emotional stress and agony.And seeing that the hour of reckoning had come.Jesus prayed the more sweating blood.Medically the condition is reffered to as hemarthidrosis a rare condition where under intense emotional stress tiny capillaries in the sweat glands break mixing blood with sweat as it drips out.

As it is recorded he was soon arrested after the betrayal kiss.This  was followed by mockery,sleepless nights,being severally slapped and even being spat on in the hands of the authorities during the trials.

The scourgings by a heavy leather whip and with metal balls at the ends  according to Roman traditions came next.So excruciating was the pain as the whip cut deeper and deeper into the skin that some victims lost blood enough and didn't even make it to the cross.It was compulsory that the accused is striped and tethered onto a pole in the process.

And the mockery continued after the beatings and for Jesus a crown of thorns was now apportioned him increasing the pain and  blood loss as a result.He later had to carry the cross all the way up even collapsing at one point.

 And at Golgotha it was all horror as the nails pierced through his wrist to  stamp him upon the beams.The legs one put upon the other were pierced through also.So excruciating must have been the encounter also as the body weight came heavy on the wounds.

Additionally to exhale suspended,with the neck hanging due to the fatigue and the pain combined was practically impossible. So every gasp of breath was a success story.There was the issue of a lot of thirst too.Sooner or later he gave up the ghost .The Romans pierced  his body and it gushed with water.It was horrific.

Later when his best  friend John the discple who was so close to be recorded lying on his bosom in his earthly days.Saw Jesus as the son of God in heavenly glory in the last book of the Bible.He gives account of his majestic form and how his voice now like that of rushing waters made him coil with fear.

And so it is that he become poor that we may be rich(in spirit),striped that we may be healed.All so that man may receive life everlasting. Who took not his heavenly glory to be something but lay it all down that he may purchase a people,mankind for God. Atoning for all our sins by his precious blood.That when our sins would have set us back,denying us fellowship with God. Jesus full of love come down for that very purpose and now we are sorted.

Then Jesus  Christ is the greatest of all the celebrated.He gave it all .Of all that have walked upon the earth none dedicated their entire life for mankind.Supersiding all pleasures,and laid it down back to back again for mankinds eternal course.

He sacrificed the most,paid the heaviest price and is thus the actual and ideal, ultimate celebrity of mannkind.(pens off)

NAIJA

It is said, if you are a deep person.Zealous ,passionate and enthusiastic. You have a vital prerequisite for what is takes to make most things click.

In Africa, this trait is very profound among people of Nigerian descent.Be they the Ibo ,Yoruba, the Hausa or any other factions.This guys come full throttle in all that they set their heart at.Nigerians are undisputably the most energetic and aggressive of Africans.

Right from the way they conversation.Be it the in their native languages or the pidgin English.Zeal is  very much on the surface.Hardly does a Nigerian quit on an argument.He will argue you to thirst ooh.Raising his voice when need be.Ulululating, and using all manner of expression to drive a point home.

Nigerians also happen to be very good in matters commerce.Citing the Dangotes to mention but a few.On the flip slide ,a select groupe will be found on the  rogue and fraudulent side.Like the famous "Yahoo boys" who from a remote location scammed the world of a kings ransom.Surfacing and vanishing online to share the spoil,and back to back.I bought a gadget from one and upto now I'm yet to figure out exactly why it doesn't work.

When they set their heart on film.My broda ooh.That's why we only have  hollywood,bollywood and who disputes nollywood as the most sought after.

On matters religion,Chiiiineeeeeke.Winners chapel Lagos branch had the biggest congregation in a single sitting worldwide last time I checked. And,with branches spilling over  Africa ,UK,USA and world over.

I recently watched a match against Bayelsea queens and Sunshine queens. And, during post match penalties ,the players and technical bench members immediately turned into prayers.They held hands and knelt.Petitioning for good tidings. I bet this happens only in Nigeria.

Their churches are also so well structured that some run football clubs.A good example is mfm football club which showcases in the national league.Religion is vital there. Nigerians are  great sportsmen too.

Based in the Muslim dominated west.Boko haram's atrocities are only mouth gaping.Like ,who does not know about 'bring back our girls now and alive 'campaign. The event a puzzle the planet is yet to unravel.Sometimes back there was MEND along the niger delta. Another outfit whose notoriety was  way way up.

And so on and so forth.Nigerians are the true representation of an African in his indigenous form. Pure,unadulterated by external ideologies,philosophies and altercations.Strength and zeal right in his genetic code.

Looking around, Nigeria seems to quite trendset for the rest of Africa.They appear to ambassador or link up for the rest of Africa.They will always be the first to set foot in territory new to the larger continent.Looking especially in the entertainment industry.So many of them also doing exploits in the diaspora as well in sports,business etc

There's so much positive  to copy paste from our Naija brodas.I mean, if you really are for something.Better nail your colours to the mast.Maybe in a different set up Nigerians can  be compared to Americans. The free, patriotic,sometimes abrasive,go getting world.A lot of parallelism being prevalent.

Arise oh compatriots.