My Top10 Picks… Art, Design, Electrical, Mechanical… The Maker Faire Africa 2010, second edition celebrating African ingenuity, innovation and invention, was held on the 27th and 28th of August. Here are afer highlights of the exciting exhibits on display at the show. 1. Pata Pata Art Pa...

This is the third in a series discovering how nerds, in Nairobi, get their stuff done. You can read the first and second posts if you haven’t. Interesting to note, most have pretty much the same tools accessible to them as those interviewed here. Cool beans, huh? This time we focus on the girl...

Every once in a while I am asked about the easiest way to create an SMS Gateway. The solutions, of course, largely vary depending on the intended purpose. Most PRSP’s, atleast in Kenya, charge an arm and a leg to facilitate such with short code charges and all that bull that’s not at all...

“BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.” Date: 12th 1nd 13th September Venue: iHub, Bishop Magua Centre, Ngong Road. Opposite Uc...

As promised, we have two more Nairobi Nerds, spilling the beans on how they get their mambo done… ‘How Nerds Get It Done’ is a series of posts inspired by this one and tries to find out exactly how our local elite (as in ‘tech-elite’) get to pull some awesome fetes, s...

Kenya’s first Tech Show, Tech Junkie is set to air on KTN very soon as overheard on Twitter earlier in the month. Well, if you are a fan of Click, on BBC, or Tech@Work, on CNBC Africa, then, bringing the action closer home just makes it all the more exciting and relevant! Romour has it that th...

In Nairobi Ever since I read this post on AllKaw, I began wondering how nerds actually get it done… in Nairobi. As I found out, there really wasn’t as big of a difference between ‘them’ and your everyday nerd in Nairobi. Well, not really your everyday nerds, these are. Infac...

at the iHubNairobi Every FOSS allied geek has his/her cryptonite. Mine caught up with me a week ago when I had to indulge in the forbidden drink, ‘wine-doors’. Since I went *nix about five years ago, I’ve managed to do almost anything under the sun comfortably under Linux except,...

I’m yet to post anything about my bookshelf – which is rather in my hard-drive/phone since I seldom read print these days. Since I discovered AudioBooks, I’ve been through quite a few titles and the most recent ones are arguably the most exciting and ‘reads I’ve heard&#...

WannaBeGeek got of the phone with @mbithi who co-directed -with legendary Jim Chuchu the now infamous “Ha-He” music video, by Just-A-Band. The video has literally given “Makmende” a life of his own, with dedicated facebook and twitter account(s), website(s) and even competiti...