VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5
The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price!
Pricing
In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 to 4. [...]
Closed lid with open eyes
A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.
One of those moments could be
A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to touch it [...]
Chrome Browser for Mac
As a Webkit lover, of course I love the Safari browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish Firefox would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will remain using the Gecko engine.
From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no [...]
G-Mail within Apple Mail
Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.
Take the following settings, to enable [...]
Rebel EFI – OS X in danger of good reputation?
Psystar has released a product called Rebel EFI, allowing the installation of any operating system on almost any PC hardware. This software could be cutely used, to run the Apple’s OS X on a PC.
Apple of course does not want this and sued several times against Psystar, because it is permitted and listed in the software agreement [...]
Zooom and position your windows perfectly
Exposé is a very comfortable way to work with many windows and a lot of applications running at the same time. Especially on Snow Leopard the handling was improved to drag and drop between those windows.
Believe it or not, I am a little bit unsatisfied with the window handling. Notably only beeing able to resize [...]
Get your webcolor quickly
When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every time I have a graphics program open, but I quickly want to pick the color [...]
New Eventbox coming up soon
On a previous article I wrote some words about the Eventbox application. It was invented to merge social profile applications in just a single one for easy and quick management.
The developers made already lots of changes and improvements.
I do really appreciate that all of my suggestions and bug reports were taken seriously and I have [...]
Win a “Record you” invitation
Do you want to win an invitation for the brand new Record You application? Be the first to place a comment.
Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects.
Record’s dynamic multi-core audio rendering improves performance without introducing any latency. It is future proof, making use of [...]
Boot from USB instead of DVD
You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too!
Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use a [...]
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