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10 Favorite Macs Apps (that I don’t use enough)
Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10....
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Ready For OS X 10.5 Leopard?
[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.] It’s time to start going through...
View ArticleThe First Real Problems
I’ve finally encountered my first real upgrade problems. I installed Windows XP Pro SP2 under Boot Camp. Then I installed Parallels 3 and told it to use my Boot Camp partition for a virtual machine....
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Leopard Upgrade: Parallels VMs Restored
Due to the time and hassle of rebuilding my Parallels Desktop(aff) VMs I wanted to use the VMs I had already created. This was simple to accomplish. I didn’t do anything special to prepare but all my...
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Leopard: Time Machine Annoyance
Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying. Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a...
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Parallels 3 Beta Updated
Parallels has released Parallels 3 Beta Build 5570, it’s available from their beta download page. Most of the improvements over the previous beta center around Leopard compatibility. I’d been having...
View ArticleSoftware Update: Parallels Desktop 3 RC Build 5580
Parallels has released Build 5580 for Parallels Desktop 3. It’s a release candidate for their Leopard compatible version. Since it’s still beta software it won’t appear in automatic update. Parallels...
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Parallels 3 Build 5582 Released – The Leopard Release
Parallels released build 5582 (RC1 was Build 5580) for Parallels Desktop 3 for the Mac which is the latest production release. I downloaded and installed the update, and I’m running Windows Live...
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The OS Quest Trail Log #17: A Virtual Week
This week was almost all about Virtual Machines on the Quest. Parallels released a couple of beta updates and eventually the final production release this week. My biggest complaint about Parallels...
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Installing Ubuntu 7.10 Server Under Parallels
I wanted to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server as a virtual machine under Parallels on my iMac. Server has a couple of differences from the desktop version. The first is that the Graphical User...
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Ubuntu 7.10 Server to Ubuntu 8.04 Server (Hardy Heron) Under Parallels
Even though I’m still in the middle of building my Ubuntu test server I decided to go ahead and upgrade it to Ubuntu Server 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Sure, I’m still learning all this stuff and this will...
View ArticleOptimizing A Windows Vista Virtual Machine
The Team Fusion blog has an article about optimizing Vista on VMware Fusion 2. Since it’s from the VMware folks it’s titled as VMware specific, but it’s appropriate for any Vista virtual machine....
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Apple Software Updates
I finally got around to applying to recent Apple updates to my iMac. I’ve been queueing them up starting with the iTunes 8 update. Part of the reason is I wanted to limit changes while I was recovering...
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Parallels 4 Released and Installed
Parallels recently released version 4 of their Parallels Desktop for Mac. I’ve been running Parallels 3 on my iMac and have three virtual machines configured. The first is Windows Vista Ultimate, the...
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Windows 7 Release Candidate
I doubt this is the first place you’re reading about it, but Microsoft released Windows 7 RC1. The release candidate will have a fairly long life as a free OS, running without any limitation until...
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