Do you have kids? Do you love Linux? If you answered “yes” to both of those questions then you are officially a Penguin Parent. Like any good parent you want your kids to have everything they need, like plenty of fish, love, happiness, and loads of video games. Well maybe video games aren’t so important, [...]

September has just begun and, in my part of the world, it brings with it the first autumn winds and the grumblings of students as they head back to school. For my part though I can’t help you with your exams or your math homework (I’m only one humble blogger after all). I can however [...]

I have way too much stuff – so much in fact that it’s often difficult to keep track of it all. Rather than get rid of some of it though, I’ve done what any self-respecting person who calls himself a geek and a collector would do: I turned to the internet. In the process I [...]

If anyone ever asks me what I know about the stock market I’ll probably just blink a couple of times, smile wide, then walk away. If however, someone asks me about my opinion on video game sales I’m likely to talk their ears off until they smile wide and walk away. Luckily for people like [...]

Anyone can create video games! Now before you start shaking me saying, “You’re crazy, Abe! Me, create video games? Come on!” you should know about possibly the coolest Windows application around: Game Maker. As you can probably guess, it promises to make creating your own computer games simpler. It certainly lives up to its promise, [...]

Now it’s time to discuss one of the most mysterious and confusing parts of Linux to a Windows user: the command line. To most Windows users the prospect of typing in what you want your computer to do is completely foreign and thus intimidating. It’s so intimidating in fact that Linux developers have poured countless [...]

We here at Make Use Of try to make your switch to Linux as smooth as possible, which includes using simple and common terminology. However there are plenty of terms that are unavoidable or at least impractical to avoid. Some terms we can explain as we go along, but some are so common that they [...]