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Lion to allow two virtualized instances of Mac OS X per machine

by Michael Rose (Jul 3rd, 2011)

The virtualization story for Mac OS X is about to change dramatically, and for the better, as Lion's licensing changes the rules for virtual machines. For some enterprise deployments, virtual Mac OS X environments are the Holy Grail: giving access to Mac-only applications on demand without ...

360-degree gaming on a projector-equipped iPhone

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2010)

Our friends at Joystiq found this one -- it's a jailbroken iPhone hooked up to a picoprojector, with the software using the compass and the accelerometer to determine exactly where the projector is aimed. That brings in a fun augmented reality touch -- you can move the iPhone around real space to ...

Sixteen new Apple patents, from CoverFlow to iDVD

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

The USPTO published a whole slew of new patent applications from Apple today, covering everything from iChat to some CoverFlow animation. Patently Apple has the whole writeup as usual. Probably the most interesting thing among them is a "virtual keyboard for media players" that uses a modified ...

VMware Fusion 1.1 released

by Lisa Hoover (Nov 12th, 2007)

Even though Leopard ships with Boot Camp, lots of Mac users still get their virtual groove on with VMware Fusion, and its super-slick window display tool Unity. Today VMware announced Fusion 1.1, an upgrade that sports some cool new features and improvements: As expected, the upgrade now ...

iPhone Experience: The keyboard

by Dave Caolo (Jun 30th, 2007)

We've got our iPhones. Now it's time to see what these puppies can do. This is the first in a series of posts intended to explore the iPhone's features. This time, it's about the keyboard. With the iPhone, Apple eschewes the "real" keyboard of some other smart phones, and offers virtual ...

VMware Fusion Beta 2 now available

by Scott McNulty (Mar 20th, 2007)

VMware, the top banana in the virtualization market though relative new comer to the Mac, has just released Fusion Beta 2, their Mac virtualization client. Fusion, much like Parallels, allows you to run Windows (and many other operating systems) on your Mac just like you would any other ...

VirtueDesktops update brings lots of changes, bug fixes

by David Chartier (Feb 27th, 2007)

VirtueDesktops, the virtual desktop manager of choice, recently updated to version 0.54 beta 2 with a major set of changes and bug fixes. This forum post at cocoaforge rounds up all the changes of a few recent builds, including this latest beta. To summarize: the main gist is a lot of focus on UI ...

Microsoft announces "Live Drive" 2GB iDisk-like storage

by David Chartier (Aug 30th, 2006)

Continuing their new Live platform push, Microsoft has announced an iDisk-like service dubbed Live Drive. This bagillionth addition to the Live product family will boast 2GB of online storage, accessibly via any computer with a web browser (read: IE or possibly Firefox - if enough people bug them ...

Run Vista on your Intel Mac with Q

by David Chartier (Aug 19th, 2006)

Parallels Desktop is all the rage in Mac virtualization these days, but it doesn't offer one major feature (yet): the ability to run Vista on an Intel Mac (believe it or not, this will be useful to many a Mac user). Sure, they've promised it's coming on their blog, but who wants to wait for ...

Widget Watch: MultiDash - workspaces for Dashboard

by David Chartier (Aug 12th, 2006)

Looks like even Dashboard is getting in on this 'spaces' concept with MultiDash - a workspace manager for your Mac OS X 10.4 widgets. Flipping the widget over allows you to create separate workspaces, and it simply records which widgets are open, complete with a screenshot, when you create the ...

Why wait for Leopard? Get a virtual desktop manager now

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2006)

Mac publications are all taking a new eye to the apps and features that Leopard is 'killing,' and Dan's post about the 7 apps that Leopard kills inspired me to check out the current market of virtual desktop managers for Mac OS X. Since I'm on a MacBook Pro however, the only one I could really put ...

Parallels Desktop official in Apple Stores with rebate offer

by David Chartier (Jul 26th, 2006)

I was in an Apple Store here in CO yesterday and noticed that retail boxes of Parallels Desktop have arrived on the shelves. In fact, I had a nice discussion with a customer who was switching because he could now run Windows on a new Mac (he never considered Virtual PC an option - I personally don't ...

Move your Boot Camp install of Windows to Parallels

by Scott McNulty (Jul 18th, 2006)

Boot Camp and Parallels: two very different ways to run Windows on your Mac and never the twain shall meet, right? Not so fast, there is a way to migrate your Windows install from a Boot Camp install (or for that matter ANY Windows install whether it be on a Mac or a PC) to Parallels. It isn't ...

Virtual PC goes free - but not for Mac OS X

by David Chartier (Jul 14th, 2006)

Good news everyone: Microsoft has released Virtual PC into the wild for free - but not for 'the rest of us'. That's right: an announcement on a MSDN blog (Microsoft Developer Network) has released Virtual PC 2004 as a free download for Windows users, and it offers details of VPC 2007 along the lines ...

Apple's Windows site mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp

by David Chartier (Jun 17th, 2006)

"If you've ever wished you could enjoy the best of both worlds, now you can" is a phrase at the bottom of Apple's Windows section of their Get a Mac site, and I think they mean that phrase now more than ever. I can't even find Apple's own Boot Camp mentioned on the 'you can even run Windows' page of ...