Tag: parallels

  • Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!

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    Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, I should have just walked away. But I didn’t because it promised so much and…

  • Microsoft Vista performance issues

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    Vista is buggy. That much is obvious to anyone who runs it but it has been improving in stability as the patches are rolled out. However it runs extremely slowly too and this became startlingly obvious to me in the last few weeks as I have been testing browsers on different platforms. It turns out…

  • Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) released

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    Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta yesterday and, surprisingly, it seems to be quite a good browser! I say surprisingly because Microsoft don’t have a track record in the good browser market 😉 I wrote a post a few weeks back comparing the speeds of various browsers and Microsoft’s current browser, Internet Explorer 7, was…

  • Parallels networking error resolved

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    I had a problem with my copy of Parallels ufter upgrading last night – the shared networking no longer worked and it was grabbing the same ip as my Mac – causing all kinds of problems. The program wouldn’t allow me to re-configure the network settings (all other options were greyed out). So after a…

  • New version of Parallels too popular!

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    I have written about Parallels previously and how it makes running Windows applications on a Mac seamless. Arstechnica are reporting that the latest version of Parallels is now available to download. For anyone who already owns a copy of Parallels, this is a free upgrade (wohoo!). Demand for the upgrade appears to be extreme though,…

  • Running Windows on OS X

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    Actually Sprinting Windows on OS X might be a more accurate post title or Screaming Windows, or… Parallels is virtualisation software which allows you to run other OS’s on your Mac. I splashed out recently and bought myself a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo, 2gb ram, 120gb hd). Now that I have…