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...

Fahali wawili wakipigana, nyasi huumia. “When two bulls fight, the grass suffers.” So goes a Swahili saying, but this time the ‘grass’ is celebrating. Safaricom launched their 7-day unlimited internet offer last week and Orange were quick on their heels two days later. Now th...

I rarely put up a post unless I know for sure it is idiot-proof. For quite a while many Kenyan’s who were ‘locked’ into their first data account because of their hardware’s locking. Nairumours tell me that Zain will be launching 3G first-quater this year and Orange is also te...

Opera was the first browser to support the Bittorrent protocol. Their BT support is quite solid, but not very advanced and doesn’t support some well-known BT extensions. In short: nice for new users, but not for regular downloaders. More on those here… What however beats the pack is the abi...

Since web 2.0 became real, most of web users are not necessarily geeks and few I know have experimented with Opera on the Desktop. Thought I’d share a trick I learnt that actually works(very few that I learn do… hehe).pera Turbo(Beta) is a server-side optimization and compression technol...

For the last one month I have been doing some research on the EV’s(Electric Vehicles) that are manufactured in the US and Europe to find out their best design criteria and approach. For those of you who missed this, De Uitvinders(The Inventors Foundation – Netherlands) in conjuction with Dev...

Creating a culture of Innovation It was amazing to see what talent has flourished within our Engineering classrooms yesterday as the curtain came down at the Sarit Expo centre where the Engineering Students’ Exhibition was held. Also amazing was the number of ladies who took part this year and...