I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac since the early beta days. I bought a copy for my wife’s MacBook and upgraded to version 3.0 when it was released. It worked pretty well.
As of today, though, I am running VMWare Fusion from a Boot Camp partition. Why? The list:
Parallels performance went downhill recently.
Weird Coherence issues [...]
MarsEdit 2 has been released. Some UI improvements, and a vastly improved media manager. It appears that this will simplify uploading photos, which addresses the points of previous posts about needing to upload different images to compensate for the .Mac gallery compression.
I’m hardly a pro-am but I still want my photos to display well. It is argued that today’s consumers more than ever accept “just good enough” when it comes to audio and video and disregard any increase in quality, but I disagree. The quality of content is indeed heavily influenced by the quality of the [...]
Wordpress, Livejournal, Blogger, Blogspot, and Moveable Type cover darn near the full spectrum of tools for the more savvy blogger. I’ve run my blog on MT and Wordpress for years and they are the tools with which I am most comfortable. There is a level of control in being able to really get in and [...]
I’ve started posting photos to my .Mac gallery that’s a component of iLife ‘08. I’m pretty pleased with it so far. The ability to quickly and easily post photos from the iPhone is slick. It would be nice if the photos were at full resolution but I guess Apple figures the pain of EDGE is [...]
One of the annoyances about .Mac email versus Gmail, AOL mail, or self-hosted mail (we use Spamassassin) is no server-side filtering. That means having to do manual deletions on the iPhone. Well, not until now - as of yesterday Apple offers junk mail filtering.
