I love this sort of stuff. Getting Apple's OS X running inside a virtual machine on a Windows PC or laptop. Not even any need for a true Hackintosh. Now before you start, I'm sorry to say this is neither

On a recent weekend in Pattaya, the beach in front of the hotel had a safe swimming area, as do many beaches in Thailand. The beaches here are often used for a wide variety of motorised watersports and

This best selling children's book was first published in 1969 and 50 years later is still in print! In my real life, my wife and I have a kids bookshop and we still copies on a weekly basis. This isn't

I can't believe it! I asked the question a few months back on musing.io to no avail, how could I find what font was being used in a picture or on a website and finally, those nice people at www.makeuseof.com

Hi, so a few days ago I shared with you all an article explaining what the Bitcoin lightning network was and why it was so important to the scalability of Bitcoin and crypto in general. I also mentioned

An achilles heel of the original Bitcoin network is that it can only process 7 transactions per second which is far too few. For a little context, Visa can process 2000 per second. Hence the Lightning

Hydroponics is the art of growing plants without soil, in water and is a great way to start growing your own food at home as simple systems take up very little space and it is very cheap and sustainable

In the UK, the BBC is mainly a news organisation rather hamstrung by its government collected TV License fee model of funding. Regardless of your views towards its political affinity and news output, for

I actually like Chromebooks, they are simple, run all the apps I need and fire up almost instantly. What a pity that you are forced to use Google and their giant data harvesting operation! However, as

Let's be honest, we have all seen those movie scenes where a car rams through a roadblock and thought that looks like fun, so if you want to try ramming through a roadblock yourself, what's the best vehicle

Do you want to run multiple operating systems from a single bootable USB stick? Perhaps boot into or install the operating system? You can with these tools and this excellent tutorial from Ian Buckley

So I just got myself an Arduino to faff about with and I'm sure it's going to take more time up than my wife will allow but hey ho! The great thing about these little micros is their interface capabilities

Interesting to hear TimCook come out with this at a recent Time conference celebrating the worlds most influential people. So if you're constantly looking at your smartphone then Apple CEO Tim Cook has

This is possibly the best article I've read all week. After seeing Partick Swayze in 'Roadhouse' stitching himself up after one of his many bar room brawls, a tiny masochistic part of me has always wanted

The great thing about the Arduino is that the interfacing is much simpler than the Raspberry Pi. By connecting a breadboard and a few components there is so much you can do via the 'pins' which are so

I could not believe how much could be written about the simple T-Shirt but thisnincredibly indepth article covers all the bases when it comes to styles, colours and designs as well as giving a full run-down

Think you may have left a BTC address in an old note on a long-disused hard drive? This article from my favourite www.makeuseof.com writer, Christian Crawley will help the non-techy amongst you get it

Someone called ZeroPaige spent 7 whole years working on a Super Mario Brothers port for the almost 40 years old Commodore64 and finally released it to much acclaim amongst C64 and Nintendo retro games

Kaizen is the art of making small continuous improvements to any part of your life you choose. Working towards goals is easier if you can see small regular steps being achieved. Using the miracle of compound

For people of a certain age......ie MY age then this was the gamers wet dream and sold in the millions. Of course,mthe cartridges cost a fortune so were often limited to Christmas and birthdays. I enjoyed